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Don Hopkins' surviving SimCity pages preserve the strange and excellent history of a networked Unix version of SimCity, complete with old screenshots, transcripts, documentation, and a demo mode that melted your city every five minutes.
The BOFH web archive preserves Simon Travaglia's long-running Bastard Operator From Hell stories, a foundational piece of sysadmin humor built from backups, users, bosses, printers, helpdesks, network failures, and weaponized technical competence.
Tilde.club revived the shared Unix account model for personal web publishing, giving thousands of users shell access, public_html directories, email, and a deliberately small-scale place to make pages without turning them into a brand or product.
Greg A. Woods's personal homepage preserves decades of UNIX systems work, programming opinions, old hardware, anti-spam material, networking references, free software, and unapologetically personal Web design.
psDooM turned Unix process management into a Doom level where running processes appeared as monsters, wounding them changed priority, and killing them could terminate the process.
The Stargate Internet Museum's UUCP Project page preserves the volunteer effort that mapped store-and-forward Unix connections so software could figure out how to route mail across a network with no single complete map.
Marshall Kirk McKusick’s old-school site preserves the BSD daemon’s artwork, shirt history, permissions, and one very persistent naming myth.
Thomas Adam's XTeddy is a long-running personal Unix and open-source domain that mixes technical identity, software work, and preservation mirrors without pretending to be a corporate publication.
Philip Kaluđerčić's SDF homepage still uses the old shell-account model: a personal directory with notes, source code, links, PGP, IRC, and hand-maintained pages.
ARPA.NET preserved a tiny Unix-administration milestone page celebrating a Sun SPARC IPX that ran continuously for 1,000 days before a power outage finally ended the experiment.
Dennis Chao's 1999 PSDoom experiment mapped Unix processes to Doom monsters so a system administrator could renice them by shooting and kill them by finishing the job.
A humor page last modified in 2001 preserves engineer jokes, Unix-era one-liners, a Windows NT error message, BBS material and broken BOFH links as a tiny fossil of technical culture.