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The Electronic Handheld Game Museum catalogs decades of pre-smartphone portable games, including manuals, internal photographs, prototypes, movie appearances, manufacturers, and old Web-ring debris.
Australian Steam is a long-running preservation index documenting more than 600 surviving steam locomotives across government, industrial, sugar, and private railway systems, with locations, status notes, photographs, and restoration updates.
TextileAsArt is a sprawling antique-textile catalog whose hand-built indexes connect Chinese silks, Coptic fragments, Persian textiles, shawls, embroidery, costumes, rugs, and preservation information.
The International Photographic Historical Organization's website, launched in 1997, combines camera history, collector guidance, appraisal help, articles, timelines, and preservation resources.
Chairlift.org became a preservation site for vanished gondolas, doubles, T-bars, manufacturers, terminals, towers, and other ski-lift hardware that resorts steadily replaced and removed.
Club Nintendo Archives documents Nintendo's little-remembered UK promotional magazine from the early 1990s with issue indexes, game appearances, articles, regional naming notes, collector research, and downloadable scans.
The Lighthouse Directory began in 1999 during the relocation of Cape Hatteras Light and now catalogs more than 24,800 lighthouses worldwide with history, operating data, preservation notes, access information, and tens of thousands of links.
Mac Hut is an active preservation project for legacy Apple Macintosh software, manuals, drivers, mirrors, and old websites, keeping material from the classic Mac ecosystem reachable on ordinary Web and FTP infrastructure.
Digitization should preserve both the physical photograph and a high-quality digital master. Handle originals carefully, choose the right capture method, keep master files separate from edited copies, record metadata and back everything up.
The Natural Arch and Bridge Society turned its website into a serious field reference for natural arches, measurements, discoveries, expedition reports, and preservation work.
Street Fighter Paradise preserves White Wolf's strange 1994 Street Fighter tabletop RPG, fan supplements, recovered fan sites, and a community that refuses to let the game disappear.
Deadword preserves much of Word Magazine's 1995-1998 run, including the strange experimental interfaces, writing, games, multimedia, and community work of one of the earliest major online magazines.
A sparse hosted archive preserves the old Ratbag Games web presence from the early 2000s, keeping a piece of Australian racing-game history accessible after the studio itself disappeared.
The Muzio Clementi Society's old piano page has become a useful case study in citation persistence: the original is unreliable, but technicians, writers, and researchers kept linking to it for years.
DataPacRat is a deliberately primitive personal archive built around a wonderfully direct idea: save interesting data first, worry about design later, and sort the pile into True, False, Opinion, and Art.
Ed Thelen started his site in 1996 and spent decades turning firsthand Nike missile experience, manuals, photographs, veteran recollections, and engineering notes into a public Cold War reference library.
BoxArtDen preserves the visual culture wrapped around products: box art, restoration work, brochures, posters, ads, model kits, and artist information arranged as a browsable gallery rather than disposable marketing debris.
Pieter.com runs a real anonymous FTP server as a non-commercial preservation project, reviving the direct file-browsing experience modern browsers abandoned years ago.
Paul David Doherty's Adventure Page collected obscure adventure-game information, Infocom facts, TADS lists, and resources for companies like Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, Polarware, and Adventure International.
The Computer Closet grew out of the early personal Web as a preservation site for classic microcomputers and video games, with machine pages that later became reference points across the retrocomputing Web.