Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models (polyedergarten.de)

I got that same feeling, I used to own a book about it that was quite hefty and from one of the semi-reputable publishers of the time, a very boring brownish cover is all I remember(this was probably 25ish years ago and I probably removed it from my library when the technology was defunct), it was really cool what the web could have been with it...