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Ancient Web: Solar System Collisions Lets You Throw Asteroids at Planets for Science

The University of Maryland's Solar System Collisions tool, online since the late 1990s, lets students vary impactor size, speed, composition, and target while studying crater size, energy, earthquakes, and impact frequency.

Ancient Web: A 1994 Princeton Page Asked What SimCity Was Teaching Its Players

A surviving Princeton-hosted copy of Paul Starr's 1994 essay 'Seductions of Sim' examines SimCity, SimEarth, SimLife, SimHealth, and the hidden assumptions inside computer simulations before simulation games became ordinary culture.

Ancient Web: The Millennium Simulation Put 10 Billion Particles on a 2005 Web Page

The Millennium Simulation Project paired one of the largest cosmology computations of its era with a brutally practical web page full of DivX movies, giant images, PostScript posters, and downloadable galaxy catalogues.