I encourage everyone to also do their own thinking of what did you enjoy in the internet or computer software in the 80's, 90's and 00's and see if it is still available somewhere.
I found out that the local games scene I used to love as a kid had been almost wiped off the face off the earth. These were small non-commercial and shareware games localized in just one language so it was already a niche. The free hosting services of the 90s are gone so those sites are down and no one wanted to keep paying for hosting for 20 years+ on sites that get very few visitors nowadays.
The only way to get these games again was to find a Discord group and a friendly stranger who agreed to seed a torrent (which had 0 seeds when I found it). I'm looking to upload them to a couple of different places and compile a basic website catalogue (static site on CDN) one of these days. For the layperson, these games are already gone from the internet.
The internet archive does a great service but it is breadth-first and quite surface level. The depth has to come from people who were familiar with the sites at their peak. And there's a big change that no one is doing that for your specific interest.
BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is a fabulous archival project that is saving as many Adobe Flash games/animations as they can before browsers pull support at the end of 2020. Really cool, since Flash games are a similarly concrete slice of culture/history that will just be gone if they're not archived.
Torrents can be seeded from HTTP sources, known as a WebSeed. I've done it with Dropbox and they don't care as long as they don't get a copyright infringement notice. Easy way to use free storage as a CDN.
YouTube has many channels with playthroughs of old games as well. (old for me is the 90's and early 00's since i'm in my twenties) You can find things like the old Lego PC games, old educational games like Physicus/Bioscopia, kids' games like Putt-Putt (not in the least because they have a speedrunning community), and much more. It's been a great resource to go back to the stuff I played growing up.
I found out that the local games scene I used to love as a kid had been almost wiped off the face off the earth. These were small non-commercial and shareware games localized in just one language so it was already a niche. The free hosting services of the 90s are gone so those sites are down and no one wanted to keep paying for hosting for 20 years+ on sites that get very few visitors nowadays.
The only way to get these games again was to find a Discord group and a friendly stranger who agreed to seed a torrent (which had 0 seeds when I found it). I'm looking to upload them to a couple of different places and compile a basic website catalogue (static site on CDN) one of these days. For the layperson, these games are already gone from the internet.
The internet archive does a great service but it is breadth-first and quite surface level. The depth has to come from people who were familiar with the sites at their peak. And there's a big change that no one is doing that for your specific interest.