~ Early Web Links ~

Refresh Yourself is a TFL-approved fanlisting dedicated to Coca-Cola, currently boasting 33 members from 10 countries united by their love of the iconic soft drink. Hosted under the Lost in Tokyo network, it offers a simple way for Coke enthusiasts around the world to register their fandom.

The California Zephyr Virtual Museum is a lovingly crafted tribute to the legendary 'Silver Lady' passenger train, maintained by Alan Radecki and John Wilson, covering its history, equipment rosters, timetables, advertising, postcards, memorabilia, and firsthand passenger and crew reflections. With sections on inaugural and final runs, car tours with photos and plans, and coverage of surviving equipment, this is a remarkably thorough archive for railroad enthusiasts and streamliner fans alike.

Shutan Camera and Video was a beloved retail institution founded in 1918 that closed after 90 years in 2008, and this site preserves its legacy through a media vault packed with decades of catalogs spanning 1956 to 2007. Visitors can browse TV and radio ads, print ads, store photos, and promotional materials that chronicle the history of one of America's long-running camera and video retailers.

Anne's personal webspace, A Forest Adrift, is a colorful hub for her collections including enamel pins, Funko Pops, CDs, Dead by Daylight items, and video games. The site also offers downloadable graphics, blinkies, 88x31 buttons, and tutorials, making it a nostalgic old-web haven packed with hobbyist content.

X-Number World of Calculators is a dedicated hub for vintage calculator collectors, covering mechanical calculators, slide adders, Troncets, and early electronic calculators. It features a collectors list, forum archives, and even hosts a webring connecting fellow enthusiasts of antique calculating machines.

Geared Steam Locomotive Works is a dedicated reference site preserving and promoting information on North American geared steam locomotives, covering types such as the Shay, Heisler, Climax, Willamette, and many more obscure variants. Online since 1998, it offers detailed documentation, plans, books, videos, and comparison resources for historians and railroad enthusiasts alike.

Cyberpeach is a cheerful personal site by a Tamagotchi enthusiast featuring a photobook, blog, and a detailed spotlight on the 2024 Tamagotchi Connection re-release with notes on shells, characters, and minigames. The site has a cutesy, flower-and-peach aesthetic and is actively updated with new content including a media room coming soon.

Plume Sans Fin is a TFL-approved fanlisting dedicated to fountain pen enthusiasts, created by Kale, with a charming name meaning 'endless pen' in French. The site welcomes anyone who collects or appreciates fountain pens to join its growing member list, and includes a banner handwritten with a Waterman Laureat from the 1980s.

Tom Perera (W1TP) has spent over 70 years collecting telegraph keys, radios, microphones, and scientific instruments, and has assembled this remarkable online museum of more than 3000 catalogued items with photographs to preserve their history for researchers and collectors. From pre-1860s early land-line equipment to Enigma cipher machines and military Morse code keys from dozens of countries, this is an extraordinarily deep reference archive freely available to anyone.

The ArtifaxBooks Museum is an online tribute to Tom French (W1IMQ), a renowned telegraph key collector and author who passed away in 2016, preserving his extensive collection of hand keys, bugs, paddles, and historic telegraph instruments in photo form. Originally a publisher of reference books for telegraph collectors since 1990, the site now serves as a virtual museum showcasing pieces from French's collection including Brown Bros company keys, Vibroplex bugs, and instruments tied to legendary telegraph operator Ted McElroy.