Franco Maria Boschetto’s homepage announces the size of the site itself: more than 4,100 megabytes.
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The Italian-language site says it has been online since November 28, 2001. More than two decades later, Boschetto is still adding material.
Calling it a “teaching site” is accurate but insufficient.
The homepage links physics lessons, student work, religion, Bible studies, virtual laboratories, Dante and science, Tolkien and physics, alternate history, model making, Roman coinage, travel writing, stories, poetry, astronomy, books, music, puzzles, photographs, and whatever else has joined the pile since the last update.
One homepage, no niche
The architecture belongs to a period when a personal domain could be both classroom and attic.
Boschetto identifies himself as an engineer and educator. His homepage directly addresses students and teachers, and a large portion of the site is structured around lessons and educational projects. But it never stops there.
A visitor can move from online physics to Newton’s apple, Schrödinger’s cat, Roman currency, biblical mathematics, science in Dante, speculative timelines, family material, and a model museum without leaving the same authorial universe.
The homepage reports a site size of roughly 4.16 gigabytes and shows updates continuing in 2026.
That physical size is funny because old personal websites are often imagined as tiny collections of HTML files.
Given enough years, they become archives.
Boschetto’s site also preserves an older visual language: dense image-based navigation, counters, badges, quotations, explicit screen-resolution guidance, and a front page expected to serve as the map for everything the author has ever decided belongs online.
A modern content strategy would separate these subjects into brands.
The old web often did the opposite.
It trusted the domain name to mean “this is the place where this person puts things.”
CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list contains many sites whose real subject is not physics, history, music, or computing.
Their real subject is the person who kept building them.
Boschetto’s site has had more than twenty years to prove the model.