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Help Us Preserve the Early Web

The internet's earliest pages are vanishing daily. Join thousands of digital archivists, developers, and historians contributing to the world's largest pre-2000 web preservation project.

482,911
User Submissions
12,403
Active Contributors
89.4%
Preservation Rate
142
Global Nodes

Ways to Contribute

Whether you're a developer, historian, or just nostalgic for the dial-up era, there's a role for you.

🔗

Submit Dead Links

Found a broken URL from the 90s/00s? Submit it and our crawlers will attempt deep recovery from cached fragments.

Beginner
💾

Donate Local Archives

Have old hard drives, Zip disks, or printed web directories? Mail them to our digitization lab or upload via secure portal.

High Impact
🏷️

Curate & Tag

Help categorize recovered pages by era, technology, geography, and content type. Essential for research indexing.

Historian
💻

Open Source Dev

Contribute to our crawling bots, rendering engines, or metadata parsers. View the GitHub repo and join sprints.

Developer
🖥️

Host a Mirror Node

Run a lightweight peer node to distribute archive bandwidth and ensure geographic redundancy.

Infra

Quick URL Submission

Submit a specific URL for immediate crawling and preservation.

How It Works

Your contribution follows a transparent, automated pipeline.

1

Submission & Validation

URLs are checked against existing archives. Duplicates are merged; new targets enter the queue.

2

Deep Crawling

Specialized bots attempt retrieval via Wayback mirrors, Memento APIs, DNS history, and cached fragments.

3

Rendering & Tagging

Recovered HTML/CSS is rendered in period-accurate browsers. Community curators add metadata and tags.

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Permanent Storage

Files are hashed, cryptographically signed, and distributed across 142 global archive nodes.

Recent Contributions

Live feed from our community archivists.

JS
justin_archivist
submitted geoocities.com/SunsetStrip/9921
Archived
MK
m.kowalski_dev
merged duplicate cache for webcrawler.com/1998
In Review
RT
retro_tech_sarah
tagged 14 pages: Netscape Navigator, MIDI, Frameset
Complete
DL
dl_node_host
activated mirror node: eu-west-3 (Dublin)
Syncing

Community Guidelines

Please review our standards before contributing.

📜 Eligibility

  • Focus on content pre-2005, with emphasis on 1990–1999
  • Personal, academic, commercial, and hobby sites welcome
  • Must respect active copyright & DMCA takedowns

🔒 Privacy & Ethics

  • No submission of private/personal data, logs, or PII
  • Blur/remove names/addresses in community curation
  • Ethical preservation prioritizes cultural/historical value

⚙️ Technical Specs

  • URLs must be fully qualified (http:// or ftp://)
  • Include approximate publication year when possible
  • Hardware donations require anti-malware scan certification

Ready to Save the Early Internet?

Create a free contributor account, sync your existing collection, or deploy your first archival node today.