#GeoCities
2023.11.14
When the servers went dark in 2009, thousands of user-created communities vanished. Our latest crawl recovered 3,400 pages from the Area51 district, including rare HTML framesets and guestbook data.
#Preservation
2023.10.28
MIDI files were the soundtrack of the 90s web. We detail our new parser that extracts, converts, and embeds these audio assets without breaking historical HTML context.
#WebDesign
2023.10.05
` Was the Original CSS
Before divs and flexbox, browsers fought over standardization. We analyze 15,000 archived layouts to show how HTML tables became the de facto styling engine of 1995-1999.
#Culture
2023.09.19
How hand-curated navigation circles like the 'Dungeon Masters Web Ring' created early niche communities, and why their decay mirrors modern platform abandonment.
#Engineering
2023.09.02
True preservation requires context. We open-sourced our WebAssembly-based Netscape renderer that accurately reproduces the pixel rendering, scrollbar behavior, and plugin crashes of 1996.
#DataMining
2023.08.15
From '000001' to '999999', animated counters were status symbols. We've indexed 42,000 counter scripts to map traffic patterns across the pre-SEO web.