Preservation

Article tag · 28 matching pages

Ancient Web: The Handheld Game Museum Never Threw Anything Away

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.

Ancient Web: Australian Steam Keeps Track of More Than 600 Surviving Locomotives

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.

Ancient Web: TextileAsArt Turned Antique Textiles Into a Hand-Built Web Catalog

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.

Ancient Web: PhotographyHistory.com Keeps Antique Cameras From Becoming Unidentified Lumps

The International Photographic Historical Organization's website, launched in 1997, combines camera history, collector guidance, appraisal help, articles, timelines, and preservation resources.

Ancient Web: Chairlift.org Documented the Ski Lifts the Mountains Removed

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.

Ancient Web: Club Nintendo Archives Rescued the UK Magazine Everyone Forgot

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.

Ancient Web: The Lighthouse Directory Has 24,800 Lights and Keeps Counting

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.

Ancient Web: Mac Hut Is Mirroring the Classic Mac Web Before It Vanishes

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.

How to Digitize and Preserve Old Kirksville Family Photographs

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.

Ancient Web: NaturalArches.org Measured the World's Giant Rock Openings

The Natural Arch and Bridge Society turned its website into a serious field reference for natural arches, measurements, discoveries, expedition reports, and preservation work.

Ancient Web: Street Fighter Paradise Is Keeping a 1994 White Wolf RPG Alive

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.

Ancient Web: Deadword Resurrected One of the Web's First Magazines

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.

Ancient Web: Our Digital Heritage Preserved Ratbag Games' Corporate Site

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.

Ancient Web: A Clementi Piano Page Kept Working After the Site Died

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.

Ancient Web: DataPacRat Built a Personal Information Archive

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.

Ancient Web: Ed Thelen Turned Nike Missile Service Into a Public Technical Archive

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.

Ancient Web: BoxArtDen Treats Packaging Art Like Museum Material

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.

Ancient Web: Pieter Built a Real Anonymous FTP Server in 2026

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.

Ancient Web: Paul David Doherty's Adventure Page Became Reference Infrastructure for Interactive Fiction

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.

Ancient Web: The Computer Closet Rescued Classic Machines Before Retrocomputing Was a Market

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.