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1990WebArchive@mastodon.social

Preserving the dawn of the internet. Curating GeoCities, early HTML, dial-up culture, and forgotten URLs. Decentralized. Open. Archived.

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1990 Web Archive
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Just recovered a fully intact GeoCities portal from 1997. The tiled backgrounds, MIDI autoplay, and visitor counter are preserved exactly as cached. #WebArchive #GeoCities
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The fediverse feels like a spiritual successor to the early web's decentralized spirit. Webmentions bridging the gap between 1995 HTML and ActivityPub. #Fediverse #Webmention
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1990 Web Archive
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New crawler node online. Targeting defunct WebRing hubs and early PHP scripts. If you have a broken archive link, tag us and we'll attempt recovery. #DigitalPreservation
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Federation & Integration

We bridge legacy web protocols with modern ActivityPub standards. Our infrastructure supports bidirectional federation for archival verification and community discovery.

Webmention

Auto-receives and indexes mentions of archived URLs across the web. Links to .well-known/webmention

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Legacy bridge compatibility ensures older fediverse clients can subscribe to our preservation alerts without protocol friction.


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