Preserving Our
Digital Heritage

We believe the early internet belongs to everyone. Our mission is to preserve digital history, support education, and ensure no piece of our shared online heritage is ever lost to time.

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142
Countries with Access
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8,400+
Educators & Researchers
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4.2M
Pages Preserved
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230+
Institutional Partners
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100%
Carbon-Neutral Servers
archive$ list --preserved --year-range 1990-1999
[βœ“] 4,203,847 pages archived
[βœ“] 892,000 HTML documents
[!] 340,000 GIF animations saved
[!] 180,000 GeoCities pages restored
[βœ“] 67,000 MIDI files preserved
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Saving the First Decade of the Web

Every day, thousands of websites go offline forever. The early web β€” with its raw creativity, experimental design, and genuine human connection β€” is disappearing at an alarming rate.

Our archival efforts have already preserved over 4.2 million pages, but we know this is just the beginning. We work tirelessly to crawl, capture, and restore forgotten digital treasures before they're gone for good.

  • βœ“ Systematic crawling of abandoned 90s websites
  • βœ“ Recovery of lost GeoCities and Angelfire pages
  • βœ“ Preservation of early web technologies and formats
  • βœ“ Cryptographic timestamping for authentication
edu$ list --programs --active
[βœ“] Digital History Curriculum Kit
[βœ“] Teacher Resource Portal
[!] 8,400 educators registered
[!] 340 universities partnered
[βœ“] Free API access for research
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Empowering the Next Generation of Web Historians

We provide free access to our archive for educational institutions worldwide, enabling students and researchers to study the evolution of the internet firsthand.

Through curriculum development, teacher training, and research partnerships, we're building a new generation that understands the digital foundations we stand on.

  • βœ“ Free API access for accredited research institutions
  • βœ“ K-12 curriculum kits on internet history
  • βœ“ Scholarships for digital heritage research
  • βœ“ Annual Digital History Symposium (free admission)

How We're Making a Difference

From bridging digital divides to fighting digital decay, every initiative we run is designed to create lasting positive change.

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Library Partnerships

We collaborate with national libraries and archives worldwide to ensure digital preservation meets the highest professional standards.

89 libraries partnered
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Open Access Initiative

Our entire archive is free to access. No paywalls, no subscriptions β€” just open knowledge for everyone, everywhere.

2.1M monthly free users
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Accessibility First

We modernize archived pages with accessibility overlays while preserving their original aesthetic, making history usable for all.

WCAG AA compliant rendering
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Green Archiving

All our servers run on 100% renewable energy. We've offset 120 tons of COβ‚‚ through reforestation partnerships since 2020.

120t COβ‚‚ offset since 2020
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Community Crawling

Our volunteer community of 1,200+ digital archivists helps identify and preserve at-risk websites before they vanish forever.

1,200+ volunteer archivists
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Research Grants

We award $250,000 annually in research grants to scholars studying digital culture, web history, and information preservation.

$250K annual research funding

Our Preservation Progress

Transparent tracking of our yearly goals to ensure accountability to our community and partners.

GeoCities Pages Restored 180,000 / 200,000
Educational Institutions Onboarded 340 / 400
Pages with Accessibility Overlays 2.8M / 4.2M
Carbon-Neutral Server Migration 100 / 100
Research Grants Awarded 18 / 24

Voices From Our Community

Real stories from educators, researchers, and community members whose work has been transformed by our archive.

"The 1990 Web Archive completely transformed my media history course. Students can now see the actual websites that shaped digital culture, not just read about them. It's like giving them a time machine."
"I found my grandfather's 1997 business website on your archive. We had no idea it existed. It was the most emotional moment of my life β€” seeing his handwriting digitized, his passion preserved."
"Our national library's digital preservation program was inspired by 1990 Web Archive's open-access model. They showed us that preservation doesn't have to be elitist β€” it can belong to everyone."
"As a web designer who started in the 90s, this archive is my portfolio from a time before screenshots. I can see how my work evolved, and my students love studying the raw, unpolished web."

Who We Work With

Collaborating with institutions worldwide to advance digital preservation.

Library of Congress
Research Partner
Stanford University
Academic Partner
UNESCO
Heritage Advisory
Internet Archive
Data Sharing
W3C
Standards Body
Greenpeace Digital
Sustainability

Principles We Stand By

Every decision we make is guided by our core values.

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Open Access Forever

No paywalls. No subscriptions. The internet's history belongs to everyone and should be free for everyone to access.

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Global Representation

We actively preserve content from underrepresented regions and languages to ensure our archive reflects the true global web.

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Data Integrity

Every archived page is cryptographically signed and timestamped, providing verifiable proof of digital provenance.

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Environmental Responsibility

100% renewable energy, carbon-offset servers, and energy-efficient archival formats to minimize our environmental footprint.

Join the Movement to
Preserve the Web

Whether you're an educator, researcher, volunteer, or just someone who cares about digital history β€” there's a place for you in our community.