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Ancient Web: Seinfeld Online Survived the 1990s Fan Web and Three Hosting Eras

Greg Leedberg's Seinfeld Online grew out of his mid-1990s personal-web period, survived moves from AOL to SimpleNet and then Leedberg.com, and remains online because people still visit an old-fashioned fan site.

Ancient Web: Greg Kennedy Preserved His Family's 1997 Homepage

Greg Kennedy keeps a surviving family website from 1997 online, complete with a twelve-year-old's horse page, visitor-counter language, hand-built navigation and the ordinary domestic material that made the personal Web personal.

Ancient Web: WhoZoo Preserved Student-Written Animal Pages from the Early Web

WhoZoo is a surviving early-2000s educational animal site built around Fort Worth Zoo observations, student species accounts, hand-linked galleries and the kind of school Web publishing that rarely survives intact.

Ancient Web: A Red Dwarf Fan Site Froze Itself in 2005

Pattycakes' Red Dwarf fan site preserves character pages, scripts, music references, Space Corps directives and the dense hand-built fandom indexes that existed before wikis absorbed most television trivia.

Ancient Web: Matthew Furman Kept Building Websites Like Websites

Matthew Furman's personal web network keeps the hand-built habits of the older Internet alive through guestbooks, counters, separate mobile pages and specialist archives including a museum devoted to disappearing payphones.

Ancient Web: IORR Took a 1980 Rolling Stones Fan Club Online in 1996

Bjørnulf Vik's It's Only Rock'n Roll began as a Norwegian Rolling Stones fan club in 1980, moved onto the Web in 1996, and still preserves tour reports, forums, news and decades of fan documentation.

Ancient Web: WebNeko Still Lets a Tiny Cat Chase Your Mouse

WebNeko keeps the old Neko desktop-cat idea alive in JavaScript, complete with contributed skins, copy-and-paste embed code, Xanga instructions and a reminder that MySpace once blocked the fun.

Ancient Web: A Samurai Pizza Cats Fan Page Has Been Frozen Since 1996

Patrick Atoon's Samurai Pizza Cats fan page has remained essentially frozen since August 1996, preserving an early anime-fandom guide to Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, characters, episodes, songs and fan culture.

Ancient Web: Italy's National UFO Center Preserved Its 1997 Web Archive

The Centro Ufologico Nazionale's web presence traces itself to 1997 and still preserves old pages, statistics, newsletters, event material and decades of Italian UFO research culture even as the organization moves to a newer domain.

Ancient Web: Annie's Home Page Became a Memorial to Its Creator

Annie's Home Page began as one Christian encouragement page in 1997, grew into a sprawling devotional and holiday site, and after Annie's death in 2014 remained online as a memorial to what she built.

Ancient Web: Earth Witchery Built a Field Guide to Faery Lore

Earth Witchery's Faery Lore page organizes folklore and modern spiritual material into faery types, elemental associations, garden plants, rituals and references in a classic old-Web field-guide format.

Ancient Web: Lighthouse Getaway Has Been on the Internet Since 1993

William A. Britten's Lighthouse Getaway has been online since 1993, preserving regional lighthouse photography, Fresnel lens explanations and a pre-blog tour of coastal light stations.

Ancient Web: Sloperama Built a Mah-Jongg Reference Library Out of FAQs

Tom Sloper's Mah-Jongg FAQs grew from late-1990s newsgroup material into a sprawling reference covering rules, terminology, antique sets, history, strategy, tournaments and decades of reader questions.

Ancient Web: Hogranch Froze a Personal Homepage with CP/M, Windows 95 and Stale Links

John R. Pierce's Hogranch homepage was barely modified after 2010, leaving behind family photo albums, Digital Research memories, Windows 95 launch pictures, old camera history and a proudly labeled collection of stale links.

Ancient Web: The Guide to Grammar and Writing Became a 600-Log Classroom

Charles Darling began the Guide to Grammar and Writing in 1996 for his students, then expanded it into a free reference with hundreds of indexed topics, quizzes and years of public grammar questions.

Ancient Web: The Encyclopedia of Electronic Music Kept Growing from 2002 into the 2020s

The Encyclopedia of Electronic Music began in 2002 as a hand-built guide to non-academic electronic artists and still preserves dense A-to-Z pages of ambient, Berlin School, cosmic and experimental music.

Ancient Web: HW Farm Turned Horse Breeding Into a Decades-Long Web Archive

HW Farm's long-running website mixes horse sales, breeding records, show results, testimonials and years of news updates into an accidental archive of online equestrian commerce.

Ancient Web: ICYouSee Was Online in 1994 and Turned the Titanic Into Web Data

John R. Henderson's ICYouSee site went online in 1994 and later published Titanic passenger demographics in the browser, making it an early example of the Web used for historical data exploration.

Ancient Web: An Iraq War UFO Conspiracy Index Is Still Sitting Online

A Biblioteca Pleyades page preserves a dated index of late-1990s and early-2000s UFO claims about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, making it useful as an artifact of old-Web conspiracy culture rather than a source of reliable history.

Ancient Web: A 1999 Matrix RPG Sourcebook Was Built for Any Game System

Daniel Pond's late-1990s Matrix RPG survives as a free systemless sourcebook designed to let tabletop groups use the film's setting without adopting a dedicated rules engine.