The IndieWeb Atlas
Digital Museums
The internet has ignited preservation efforts across all sorts of fields - people who really care about cataloguing any niche subject can do so on the web, without the sort of old-money seed funding most physical museums need to get started. The links on this page will take you to collections of diverse kinds; some you'll find fascinating, others you'll no doubt find strange.
An extensive collection of assets in the style of Frutiger Aero, which you may remember as "that fun 2000s Windows OS aesthetic". Includes wallpapers, music, video, history, and other media related to Frutiger Aero.
Allows you to watch TV and commercials from dacades of the 20th century, using interfaces resembling televisions typical of the chosen decade. Contains thousands of clips across five decades of television.
Home to the Wayback Machine, which allows you to see snapshots of websites as they were in the past. Also home to a truly incredible media library, full of books, images, newspaper clippings, videos, music, and more.
A museum of sounds made by all sorts of objects, especially old and obsolete ones that people may never otherwise hear.
Recreates old operating systems and software in your browser.
The Winamp Skin Museum showcases an uncountable number of Winamp skins, and resources to use Winamp yourself. You can even use the winamp skins right there in the museum (although the song list is limited).
A wiki-style collection of cut content found in the data of videogames. Decades of easter eggs, missing levels, unusued animations, and never-before-heard music are archived here.
A wiki-style collection of information of lost media - movies, music, TV commercials, video games, footage of real life events, and much more. This website has a vibrant and active community investigating these lost pieces of media, and they've found quite a few!