Digital Archaeology & Web Science

Access the largest structured repository of pre-2000 web content. Power your research with verified datasets, temporal analysis tools, and open API access.

4.2M
Archived Pages
892K
Unique Domains
12.5TB
Raw Data
1990-2000
Coverage Span

Open Datasets

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HTML SOURCE

GeoCities Complete Dump

Full HTML source code of 180,000+ Geocities personal homepages, including embedded assets and directory structure.

2.4TB Size Last Update: 2024-01-15
METADATA

Temporal Link Graph

Structured graph data representing hyperlink relationships between domains from 1995-1999. Ideal for network analysis.

850GB Size Nodes: 4.1M
VISUAL DATA

Rendered Snapshot Corpus

PNG screenshots of archived pages rendered in period-accurate browsers (Netscape 3.0, IE 3.0, Mosaic). Includes DOM trees.

1.1TB Size 4.2M Images
TEXT EXTRACTION

OCR & Text Corpus

Extracted text content from scanned PDFs, image-heavy pages, and raw HTML. Cleaned and tokenized for NLP research.

420GB Size Multi-lingual

API Access

REST & GraphQL Endpoints Available
# Search for archived pages by keyword and date range # Requires API Key with 'reader' permissions curl -X GET "https://api.1990archive.net/v1/search" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "query": "under construction", "date_from": "1995-01-01", "date_to": "1999-12-31", "source": ["geocities", "angelfire"], "limit": 100 }'
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Featured Research

2024

The Evolution of Visual Complexity in Early Personal Homepages

Dr. Elena Voss, MIT Media Lab • Using 1990 Web Archive Visual Corpus
Visual Analysis GeoCities ML
2023

Semantic Shifts in Web Ring Communities: A Network Study

Prof. James Chen, Stanford University • Temporal Link Graph Dataset
Network Science Community Detection Sociology
2023

Pre-Y2K Discourse Patterns in Business Portals

Sarah Miller & Team, Oxford Internet Institute • Text Corpus Analysis
NLP E-commerce Discourse Analysis

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