We are digital archaeologists, coders, and preservationists dedicated to saving the fragile history of the early web from the void of digital obsolescence.
In 1990, the web was a wild, experimental frontier. Personal homepages, Geocities communities, early e-commerce experiments, and text-based adventures flourished in a digital garden that was constantly changing.
As technology advanced, this history began to disappear. Entire ecosystems of culture were lost when platforms shut down or technologies became obsolete.
1990 Web Archive exists to reverse this loss. We crawl, capture, and restore the artifacts of the early web, ensuring that future generations can experience the digital dawn just as we did.
From a single floppy disk to a global preservation network.
The humans behind the mainframe. No bots, just passion.
Digital preservation expert with 20 years of experience in web scraping and metadata standards.
Manages the distributed storage network ensuring 99.99% uptime for our petabytes of history.
Identifies culturally significant sites and creates curated collections for researchers and the public.
Builds the emulation environments that allow us to render obsolete web technologies accurately.