Complete archive index

All 23 finds, newest added first. Added dates refer to this archive, not the original work’s publication date. Dates were verified against the site’s Git history; launch-batch items share a date.

1. Cameron's WorldAdded 2026-10-21 · pre-platform culture

   A sprawling, clickable collage of rescued GeoCities GIFs, homemade dreams, and personal-web oddities.

2. The Garden and the Stream: A TechnopastoralAdded 2026-10-07 · web architecture

   A durable argument for gardens, paths, and tended knowledge instead of endless streams.

3. Space Jam Official SiteAdded 2026-09-30 · pre-platform culture

   A still-live 1996 promotional site: starfields, image maps, table layouts, and a movie lobby built by hand in HTML.

4. Justin’s Home PageAdded 2026-09-23 · pre-platform culture

   A dorm-room personal homepage from January 1994, preserved before profiles replaced places.

5. The Cluetrain Manifesto: 95 ThesesAdded 2026-09-16 · pre-platform culture

   Markets as conversations, written before the social web was turned into engagement plumbing.

6. The Cathedral and the BazaarAdded 2026-09-02 · old programming blogs

   A firsthand map of open-source collaboration before it became corporate infrastructure and content-marketing wallpaper.

7. My Boyfriend Came Back from the WarAdded 2026-08-26 · pre-platform culture

   A tiny frame-based net.art work that turns the browser into broken memory.

8. A Handmade WebAdded 2026-08-19 · pre-platform culture

   Small, handmade, inspectable pages as an antidote to industrial publishing systems.

9. World of EndsAdded 2026-06-19 · web architecture

   The internet as a world of edges, not gates — and a useful antidote to every platform that later tried to become the middle.

10. Hypertext Gardens: Delightful VistasAdded 2026-06-16 · pre-platform culture

    The web as a landscaped place of paths, surprise, and authored structure instead of navigation plumbing.

11. A Vernacular WebAdded 2026-06-13 · pre-platform culture

    Early personal homepage aesthetics as a real folk language of the human web.

12. Anatomy of a WeblogAdded 2026-06-11 · pre-platform culture

    An early attempt to describe what weblogs were becoming: links, commentary, voice, and human selection.

13. A Rape in CyberspaceAdded 2026-06-08 · pre-platform culture

    The LambdaMOO article that made online harm, governance, and embodied text impossible to wave away.

14. In Praise of IdlenessAdded 2026-06-07 · weird useful corners

    A 1932 challenge to the cult of overwork that still cuts through modern work culture.

15. The Tyranny of StructurelessnessAdded 2026-06-07 · weird useful corners

    Still one of the sharpest texts about organizations, communities, and informal control.

16. Mr. Buffett on the Stock MarketAdded 2026-06-07 · markets that aged well

    A calm valuation note written while the room was drunk.

17. Housing: Speculation is the KeyAdded 2026-06-07 · markets that aged well

    Independent diagnosis from before the crash became obvious.

18. The Rise of Worse is BetterAdded 2026-06-07 · old programming blogs

    It explains half the software world with an uncomfortable little knife.

19. The Law of Leaky AbstractionsAdded 2026-06-07 · old programming blogs

    A durable warning against smooth tools, black boxes, and fake simplicity.

20. A Group Is Its Own Worst EnemyAdded 2026-06-07 · pre-platform culture

    It reads like a field manual for every platform community failure that followed.

21. Weblogs: A History and PerspectiveAdded 2026-06-07 · pre-platform culture

    It preserves human selection: someone found a thing, thought about it, and linked with voice.

22. A Dao of Web DesignAdded 2026-06-07 · web architecture

    Responsive web thinking before responsive design had a name.

23. Cool URIs don’t changeAdded 2026-06-07 · web architecture

    A small manifesto for permanent links: links as promises, not disposable plumbing.