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Sarah Kim

Lead Digital Archivist & Web Preservation Specialist
12+
Years in Preservation
850K+
Pages Recovered
34
Conferences Spoken
sarah.kim@1990webarchive ~ profile

about_me --bio

Passionate digital archaeologist specializing in early web ecosystems, GeoCities recovery, and Netscape-era rendering pipelines. I've dedicated over a decade to ensuring the fragile, creative, and culturally vital content of the 1990s internet isn't lost to bitrot.

Currently leading the Angelfire & Tripod Rescue Initiative and developing our MHTML/WARC cross-reference indexing system.

// Expertise
Technical Proficiency
HTML 3.2 / Table Layouts98%
GeoCities / Angelfire Recovery95%
Netscape Navigator Emulation92%
WARC / MHTML Formats90%
Digital Forensics & Bitrot Repair88%
Early CGI & Server-Side Includes85%
// Notable Projects
Archives Led & Preserved
🌐

The Angelfire Rescue

2019 - Present
Spearheaded the largest coordinated recovery of Angelfire personal sites, reconstructing broken frame layouts and recovering offline MIDI assets.
Frame RecoveryMIDI ArchiveCommunity Led
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Netscape Gold Cache

2021
Mapped and preserved 42,000 pages optimized specifically for Netscape Gold, including proprietary scrollbars and early DHTML experiments.
Browser SpecificDHTML1997-1999
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WebRing Network Documentation

2022
Created a searchable graph database of 8,500+ WebRings, preserving navigation patterns and community ecosystems lost when RingServer shut down.
Graph DBNavigationEcosystem
// Career Path
Preservation Timeline
2013
Joined 1990 Web Archive
Started as a volunteer crawler, focusing on recovering broken links from early university department pages.
2016
Lead Researcher, Personal Sites Division
Developed automated parsers for Geocities and Tripod templates, increasing recovery rate by 340%.
2019
Conference Keynote: "Saving the Soul of the Early Web"
Spoke at IIJ & WebHistorians on ethical preservation and community-driven archiving.
2023
Director of Preservation Pipelines
Overseeing all WARC/MHTML ingestion, rendering validation, and public access APIs.
// Connect
Work With Sarah

Available for digital preservation consulting, academic research collaboration, and speaking engagements on early web history.

✉ Email Directly 🐙 GitHub 💼 LinkedIn 🎤 Speaking Deck