Moist towelettes, roadside motels, stone tools, whole subjects put online in full. Each was gathered by someone who couldn’t let it go and kept where anyone can browse it.
It started with a box of Linotype promo reels handed over in 2011
→ printingfilms.com
Abandonware preservation for the spreadsheets nobody thought worth saving
→ stonetools.ghost.io
Historical photos pinned to their exact spot on a live Richmond map
→ yesterdays.maprva.org
A meta-archive cataloguing other people's obsessively kept archives
→ archiveofarchives.com
11,700 free photos of teapot gas stations and doughnut-shaped shops
→ openculture.com
1,300+ restored hand-colored plates from a Victorian-era natural history series
→ openculture.com
Venice's ritual bridge fistfights, the guerre dei pugni, captured in 17th- and 18th-century art
→ publicdomainreview.org
A decades-old shrine to vintage moist-towelette packaging, still adding to the shelves
→ moisttowelettemuseum.com
A semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks, browsable by theme instead of keyword
→ lastmuseum.com
A zoomable timeline of four million events, from prehistory to now
→ app.everything.diena.co
71,763 curious places, filterable by how obscure they are
→ detourmap.com
What America's oldest surviving restaurant menus reveal about class, gender, and technology
→ pudding.cool
All 85 Federalist Papers, presented one by one as they first ran in 1787-88
→ federalistreader.org
A newsletter with big enthusiasm for the design details everyone else ignores
→ inconspicuous.info