Join a global community of digital historians, developers, and enthusiasts dedicated to saving the first decade of the World Wide Web before it fades forever.
Begin Your Mission →Every hour you contribute saves irreplaceable digital heritage from the silent extinction of broken links and forgotten servers.
Whether you code, curate, or communicate, there's a critical position waiting for you.
Deploy and maintain our distributed web crawlers. Recover lost pages from defunct domains, old ISPs, and abandoned subnets.
Contextualize archived content. Verify dates, identify authors, and document the cultural significance of early web communities.
Organize, tag, and restore archived pages. Fix broken relative paths, normalize formats, and prepare collections for public viewing.
Grow our movement. Manage Discord channels, create outreach content, and connect with universities, museums, and retro-computing groups.
Build the infrastructure that powers the archive. Contribute to our rendering engine, search index, storage systems, and volunteer dashboard.
A streamlined, transparent process designed to match your skills with the archive's greatest needs.
Fill out our brief intake form below. Tell us about your background, availability, and which track resonates with you.
Complete a self-paced module covering our mission, archival standards, and the technical stack we use to preserve history.
Join a cohort training session, get paired with a mentor, and receive your first set of preservation tasks or development tickets.
Begin contributing. Track your hours, see your recovered pages go live, and earn digital badges as you advance through volunteer ranks.
Everything you need to know before diving into digital preservation.
Not at all. While we have developer roles, our historians, curators, and community advocates thrive with research, organizational, and creative skills. We provide full training for every track.
We ask for a minimum of 5 hours per week. All roles are fully asynchronous and remote, so you can contribute whenever your schedule allows.
This is a volunteer position. However, contributors receive official digital certificates, public recognition in our annual impact report, priority access to archive datasets, and letters of recommendation for academic or career pursuits.
Every archived document is cryptographically signed, timestamped, and cross-referenced with multiple historical sources. Our historian team reviews contextual metadata to ensure accuracy and provenance.
Absolutely. We actively partner with universities, library science programs, and computer science departments. Institutional accounts receive API access and dedicated support for research projects.
Submit your details below. Our coordination team will respond within 48 hours.