Edward N. Peters' CanonLaw.info organizes Catholic canon law into a dense hand-built research center covering the 1917 and 1983 codes, Eastern canon law, historical collections, Latin texts, commentary, and research tools.
TexasWaterTowers.com turns ordinary municipal water towers into a hand-built photographic road archive, with town pages, local notes, construction photos, postcards, wall art, and the unmistakable logic of a personal collection.
Douglas Self's Museum of Retro Technology includes a wonderfully specific transport archive devoted to monowheels, one-track machines, gyro vehicles, and other attempts to reduce the ordinary vehicle's wheel count.
SPACEFACTS organizes astronaut, cosmonaut, and taikonaut biographies, portraits, mission reports, statistics, EVA data, and historical corrections in a long-running manually maintained spaceflight database.
Georgia State University's HyperPhysics grew from HyperCard teaching material into a web-based concept map in 1998, linking thousands of compact physics explanations, diagrams, calculations, and subject pathways.
Smuggled.com says it has been online since 1996 and still behaves like a giant personal server: reptiles, herpetology papers, books, photographs, media releases, indexes, and controversial first-person material all live under one sprawling hand-built domain.
Stinkymeat2 turned a deliberately disgusting experiment into an 18-day photo diary: six cheap meat products, public locations, daily observations, and exactly the kind of oversharing the early web did best.
Eclipse '98 documented a 1998 Caribbean solar-eclipse webcast built from more than 700 files, a dozen servers, static HTML, CGI, FTP distribution, and a volunteer team learning web-scale failure in real time.
Michael Wong's Star Wars vs. Star Trek site, online since 1998, treats fictional military hardware like an engineering problem—complete with canon rules, evidence standards, calculators, order-of-magnitude estimates, and a glorious Imperial recruiting pitch.
Stanford's old 1918 influenza pages preserve a 1997-era academic web lesson on the pandemic, complete with historical photographs, public-health material, medical-response sections, graphs, bibliography, and the assumptions of its own time.
Philip Greenspun's travel archive mixes practical guides, road trips, personal travelogues, unfinished fragments, photography, and dry commentary across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the polar regions.
Cockatiel Cottage has been online since June 2001, combining health and behavior articles, breeding guidance, toxic-plant lists, more than 3,000 pet names, hundreds of bird photos, MIDI-era graphics credits, and the deeply personal tone of a hobby site that became a reference library.
The Tex Avery Tribute is a surviving independent fan site devoted to the animator behind Droopy, the Wolf, Screwy Squirrel, and a style of cartoon timing that still echoes through animation decades later.
The Hawaii Five-O Home Page has been online since 1994 and grew into a dense fan-built reference covering episode guides, music, cast research, newsletters, scripts, title sequences, trivia, ratings, conventions, and decades of accumulated show history.
Thomas J. Elpel's Wildflowers and Weeds site has been publishing plant-identification material since the 1990s, teaching readers to recognize botanical families through recurring patterns instead of memorizing thousands of isolated species.
Whatsits Galore has been online since 2000 and still updates its sprawling mix of Disneyana, Scooby-Doo, Star Wars, TV glitches, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, quizzes, collectibles, catchphrases, and gloriously miscellaneous fan pages.
The preserved Dole Kemp '96 campaign site still shows what a national presidential campaign thought the Web was for in 1996: news, policy, postcards, games, volunteer forms, tax calculators, and a very small screen.
Alex Tew's Million Dollar Homepage sold a 1,000-by-1,000 pixel grid as advertising in 2005 and became a permanent mosaic of the commercial Web at exactly the moment every square was finally sold.
The surviving Dancing Baby site preserves the 1996 animation's original credits, GIFs, production notes, copyright history, and the gloriously strange path from 3D software demo to early Internet phenomenon.
Mike Reed's Flame Warriors turned online arguments into an illustrated field guide of recurring forum personalities, from ALLCAPS and Newbie to Necromancer, Troll, and Profundus Maximus.