1990 Web Archive

GeoCities Personal Pages

HTML

📅 1994–1999 📦 482 GB 🔖 Personal, GeoCities 📜 CC BY-NC 4.0

Reconstructed personal homepages from the GeoCities ecosystem. Includes tiled backgrounds, visitor counters, MIDI files, and classic table-based layouts.

Early E-commerce Stores

JSON

📅 1995–1998 📦 124 GB 🔖 Commerce, CGI, Forms 📜 Public Domain

Structured product catalogs, checkout flows, and early shopping cart implementations. Cleaned JSON with original HTML artifacts preserved.

Web Ring Communities

Graph

📅 1996–2000 📦 87 GB 🔖 WebRings, Links, Communities 📜 CC0 1.0

Node-edge graphs mapping WebRing memberships, cross-linking patterns, and community clustering from the mid-to-late 90s.

Dial-up ISP Homepages

HTML

📅 1993–1999 📦 310 GB 🔖 ISP, Dial-up, Config 📜 CC BY-NC 4.0

Welcome pages, setup guides, and ISP-hosted community boards. Captured before broadband transition erased most original content.

DHTML & Java Applet Archives

JSON

📅 1997–2000 📦 215 GB 🔖 DHTML, Java, Animation 📜 MIT License

Metadata and decompiled archives of early interactive web elements. Includes applet source snippets, DHTML menus, and animated cursor collections.

Y2K Preparedness Sites

HTML

📅 1998–2001 📦 94 GB 🔖 Y2K, Government, Corporate 📜 Public Domain

Official and third-party Y2K readiness portals, compliance checklists, and panic-era countdown pages. Historically significant cultural snapshot.

Bulk Access & API

Need the full archive or programmatic access? Use our CLI tool or REST API to stream datasets directly into your research environment.

archive$ npm install -g @1990archive/cli
archive$ archive download --dataset "geo-1994" --format tar.gz --output ./data
[✓] Verified checksums. Downloading 482GB... ETA: ~42min
archive$ █

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