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Whoosh! went online in 1996 as the journal of the International Association of Xena Studies, combining episode guides, essays, interviews, fan scholarship, convention reports, and a huge record of early online fandom.
GoldenEye Forever turned one Nintendo 64 shooter into a long-running archive of cheats, GameShark codes, custom multiplayer levels, emulator setups, hidden content, community discoveries, and the strange afterlife of a game that never really left.
Notepad.org is a deadpan monument to hand-coded HTML, presenting Windows Notepad as a world-class Web authoring tool with perfect standards support, tiny memory use, and compatibility with formats not yet invented.
BBC Politics '97 survives as an early online news archive covering the 1997 UK general election, devolution debates, party leadership, conferences, polls, and political stories from the period before BBC News Online took its modern shape.
The TeamTNT memorial preserves the history of the distributed Doom mapping group behind TNT: Evilution, Icarus, Eternal Doom, Boom, and one of the clearest examples of fan modding crossing into official game development.
Don Hitchcock's Don's Maps has grown into a huge independent archaeology reference covering Paleolithic sites, cave art, tools, figurines, human evolution, ancient cultures, maps, translations, and photographs assembled through years of patient personal research.
USPaperMoney.Info is a specialist reference for modern U.S. currency production, serial-number ranges, star notes, print runs, block lists, uncut sheets, and the small manufacturing details collectors actually need.
Radio Boulevard's RTTY archive documents mechanical teleprinters, terminal units, amateur-radio stations, and the hardware history behind radioteletype before computers reduced it to another software mode.
Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder's Big Ball of Mud essay gave a name to the sprawling, improvised software architecture that teams publicly deny and privately maintain every day.
The Gallery of Monster Toys is a 1996-era collector site devoted to the crude, charming monster toys tied to Creature Features, Famous Monsters culture, and a generation of horror fans.
Eva Hollmann's Board Lady site turns years of hands-on windsurf, surf, and epoxy-board repair work into a detailed visual manual covering fiberglass, sandwich construction, inserts, soft decks, vacuum bagging, paint, leaks, and structural failures.
Eric Marcotte's Sliderule.ca preserves slide-rule history, operating theory, manuals, restoration advice, scale references, and a large photographed collection built before electronic calculators erased the tool from daily life.
Lesley Nelson's Contemplator site, established in 1996, combines folk-song lyrics, MIDI files, tune histories, ballad research, maritime material, and short historical essays into a durable pre-streaming music reference.
Beej's Internet Pizza Server began as a 1993 email experiment and became a 1994 Web service that generated custom pizza images, complete with bizarre toppings, C code, MIME support, and a manifesto against taking the commercial Internet too seriously.
Astronautix preserves the long, expensive, repeatedly redesigned history of Space Station Freedom, the American station program whose hardware and planning were folded into the International Space Station.
Lara Eakins' TudorHistory.org grew into a broad independent reference covering monarchs, Henry VIII's wives, biographies, chronologies, primary documents, maps, genealogy, Q&A, and years of hobbyist historical research.
Vince Weaver's personal homepage still connects thirty years of Web publishing, Apple II hacking, Linux utilities, BBS history, demoscene work, old bookmarks, and the kind of personal miscellany modern profiles usually throw away.
Juan Soulie's Civilization II CheckPoint survives as a 1997 fan-built strategy hub with maps, scenarios, files, tactics, links, and player suggestions for a Civilization III that did not exist yet.
Carmen Giunta's Classic Chemistry site has been putting foundational chemistry papers, historical calculations, obsolete terminology, anniversaries, and source-based teaching material online since the 1990s.
A surviving WWWF Grudge Match page preserves the early Web formula of absurd pop-culture combat, human-written commentary, visitor voting, and pages of audience responses before social media standardized all of it.