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Alex Churchill's old Jellybabies page is an almost perfect specimen of personal-web enthusiasm: candy rankings, invented personalities, terrible packet jokes, eating techniques, reader votes, and a secret-page puzzle.
Kylie 'drago' McCormick started The Circle of the Dragon on Angelfire in 2000. It grew from a small mythology project into a long-running reference covering dragon folklore, species, famous dragons, theories, art, and media.
Kushal Dave's abandoned net.tech page froze a 1997 survey of emerging Internet technology—Java, VRML, streaming audio, cable modems, electronic cash, plug-ins and more—and joked that Internet historians might someday find it useful.
Purdue's old General Chemistry pages on Rutherford and the gold foil experiment are a surviving example of university courseware that escaped the semester it was built for and kept being cited for years.
Drop-D Magazine's surviving final issue preserves Vancouver concert listings, club names, local bands, reviews, volunteer photography, and the wonderfully uneven machinery of an independent online music magazine in 1998.
Oleg Bartunov's old Sternberg Astronomical Institute web directory became a working home for PostgreSQL research and development around GiST, GIN, tsearch2, pg_trgm, hstore and other infrastructure that later became familiar parts of PostgreSQL.
DrNostromo.com openly embraces its old-school design and has kept accumulating movie reviews, music, game material, Doom history, image galleries, and personal projects since 1995—with no ads, tracking, registration, or apparent desire to become a platform.
Something Awful's 2003 Daring Armstrong site is a preserved parody personal homepage for an aggressively self-impressed time-traveling American hero, complete with journals, comics, coworkers, trophies, photographs, and invented adventures.
Pekka Väänänen's 2014 technical report explains how he modified Quake to draw its 3D world as line art on an XY oscilloscope, using stereo audio output as the display signal.
Steve Olsen's GIF Pronunciation Page has spent decades assembling primary evidence, old CompuServe documentation, developer recollections, reader arguments, jokes, and later media coverage around one extremely durable Internet dispute.
Espen Paulsen's RAMA3D is a surviving personal gallery of homemade science-fiction CGI, guest art, space imagery, and Arthur C. Clarke fandom from the era when rendering Bryce landscapes was enough reason to build an entire website.
Kenny Young's UFO Research: Cincinnati! survives as an archive of 1990s and early-2000s regional UFO investigations, witness reports, 911 audio research, public-record work, skeptical counterarguments, and the unfinished paper trail of a researcher who died in 2005.
The PcFreaK A/H/P/F Organization page survives as a compact old-school hacker-crew manifesto centered on network-security research, open-source contribution, technical exploration, and helping users move away from proprietary Microsoft software.
Galactic Server preserves a sprawling personal network of UFO contact material, channeling, crop-circle pages, spiritual cosmology, extraterrestrial claims, radio links, memorial pages, and other late-old-Web alternative-belief material.
Stefanie Wiele's personal site preserves German shorthand lessons, typing material, competition records, photographs, and firsthand material from the 2001 Intersteno world championships, where she helped bring a world title home to Oldenburg.
Don Worth's UCLA personal homepage preserves the story and downloadable PC version of Beneath Apple Manor, his 1978 Apple II dungeon crawler that used procedural generation two years before Rogue.
ROT8000 takes the old ROT13 idea and extends the joke across most of Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane, creating a reversible spoiler-hiding transform that began as a digital-art project and later escaped into hacker culture.
Created on September 5, 1995, the Web's First Japanese Pizza Page documents a Tokyo neighborhood pizza menu with squid, octopus, tuna, mayonnaise, shiso, bamboo shoots, corn, boiled egg, and one author's increasingly concerned commentary.
Paul Burgess's personal site, online under its current domain since 2001, preserves essays, fiction, interests, semiotics material, and the kind of personal intellectual miscellany that once made a homepage feel more like a room than a profile.
Friends of the Creeks grew out of Walnut Creek's early-1990s creek-restoration planning and used the Web to preserve local creek history alongside cleanup, habitat-restoration, flood-control, and watershed advocacy.