Really cool pokémon themed website which features a lot of really interesting things. Actively maintained and cared for to this day, updated and nicely styled. My favourite part of it is the articles explaining the game mechanics, especially this page explaining the strange mechanics of capturing pokemon in generation 1.

This website does show its age but it's an interesting look at various aspects of life in Victorian times, all the way through social, political, literary, educational, scientific and everything else. There's so much to explore here, one interesting thing is the biography and other information on William Gladstone, the GOM (Grand Old Man (or God's Only Mistake)).

I love this because of how obscure it is. It's so cool to feature texts that were classics when the books we regard as classics today. The most interesting text to me is A fiery flying roll by Abiezer Coppe. Abiezer Coppe was one of a group called the ranters which was definitely crazy but no more crazy than society writ large.

I put these two together because they're very similar in that they're both old sites for older folk music which I really like. The mudcat cafe is an old forum for discussing folk music. Mainly Norfolk is more of an English/Scottish focused folk music site. Both were founded in 1996 which is pretty impressive. There's so much on these sites I'm not sure I have anything in particular to highlight but this full discography of Ewan Maccoll is pretty neat.

Also for mudcat, one awesome thing is this thread on mudcat about the origins of the song "Wellerman". The thread was started in 1999, more than 20 years before it became very popular on TikTok. It helped to add some info on the origins of the song, as the poem it originated from and where it may have come from musically. This page on Ngā Taonga has some fascinating details on how the song may have come to be.

One of the oldest websites around; this one definitely shows it with the .htm extensions and the rudimentary styling. The site is about chronicling a group of people in the 60s called the Diggers, named after a group in England from the 17th century. The what's new page shows the updates to the site going all the way back to 1993 which is pretty impressive. I also enjoyed some of the writing on this page.