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2meta's April Fools on the Net archive preserves online pranks from the 1990s onward, including fake acquisitions, bogus security advisories, joke RFCs, and other nonsense from before social media centralized the joke cycle.
Mark Napier's mid-1990s Distorted Barbie project is an early piece of browser-based art that used linked pages, manipulated Barbie imagery, and the structure of the Web itself as part of the work.
Bill Beaty's Science Hobbyist site has been online since 1994, mixing electronics, physics demonstrations, high-voltage experiments, misconceptions, unconventional research, and an old resource page built for nerds and misfits.
George Michael Brower's 2012 Staggering Beauty reduces a website to one black creature, mouse movement, Paper.js animation, and an aggressively flashing payoff that should come with a photosensitivity warning.
The Heaven's Gate website remains online as a disturbing primary artifact of 1990s Internet history, preserving the group's writings, transcripts, press material, and final public messages from before the deaths of 39 members in 1997.
Tony Diaz's Apple2.org has documented Apple II hardware since the 1990s with hundreds of photographs, technical references, expansion cards, motherboards, accelerators, storage devices, and obscure accessories.
The freeware home of Odyssey - The Legend of Nemesis preserves a complete classic Macintosh RPG, its walkthrough, development material, and the game's original commercial website as a deliberate piece of Mac gaming history.
Randy Byrnes' My Old Computers museum grew from a 1982 ZX-81 kit into a collection of more than 260 machines, peripherals, manuals, software, magazines, books, and advertisements photographed from the actual collection.
Kevin S. Forsyth's History of the Delta Launch Vehicle preserves development history, performance tables, a detailed flight log, sources, old launch news, and the evolution of a rocket family that began with Thor hardware in 1960.
Alexei Panshin maintained The Abyss of Wonder from 1999 until 2022, publishing fiction, criticism, essays, song lyrics, book material, and personal commentary in a hand-built archive that remains preserved after his death.
The parody site whitehouse.gov1.info mimicked official-government presentation and built a deliberately fake presidential missile-launch interface complete with bogus codes, target selection, status messages, and repeated disclaimers that none of it was real.
The Church of the SubGenius' official SubSITE still preserves old newsletters, graphics, audio, fonts, software, MIT digest archives, 1990s programs, and layers of Web design accumulated around J.R. Bob Dobbs and the pursuit of Slack.
The Matrix 101 organized FAQs, timelines, character details, interpretations, books, games, Animatrix episodes, and fan theories into a dedicated reference site for a franchise designed to make viewers ask what they just watched.
F-Zero World Record History tracks course and lap records across four F-Zero games, preserving modern video-backed runs alongside records traced back to Japanese magazine-era performances from 1991 and 1992.
Gary Friedman's Data Egg grew from a 1990 JPL prototype built around a plastic Easter egg into a one-handed seven-button chording system designed for typing while walking, standing, reclining, or even working in space.
Margo's Beadie Critter Collection calls itself the oldest continuously running beadie-pattern site in existence, with more than 1,400 free pony-bead designs and an ongoing effort to rescue patterns from other vanished craft sites.
Justin Hall's Links.net has been publishing personal notes, travel, relationships, experiments, and Internet life since 1994, making it one of the clearest surviving examples of the personal Web before blogging had a name.
FlyingOmelette.com grew out of the late-1990s retro-gaming Web and accumulated reviews, oddities, music, shrines, forum history, rescued pages, and enough site archaeology to document an entire era of fan publishing.
Paul Freeman's Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields has been documenting vanished airports since 1999 and now contains thousands of entries assembled from maps, aerial photographs, directories, memories, and contributed research.
Tom Rogers' Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics turned explosions, impossible jumps, bad spaceflight, and Hollywood science into a long-running physics lesson disguised as a public complaint department.