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About the 1990 Web Archive

Welcome to the official index of the 1990 Web Archive. Our organization is dedicated to the systematic preservation of publicly accessible web content from the inception of the HTTP protocol through the end of the twentieth century.

We utilize distributed crawler networks to capture HTML documents, static images, audio files, and early interactive scripts. Each preservation event is timestamped and stored in redundant offline media to guarantee long-term accessibility for researchers, historians, and the general public.

The archive currently maintains verified copies of over 310,000 distinct domains and 1.2 million individual documents.

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Category	Description	Total Records
Academic Institutions	University portals, research group pages, and departmental information	48,200
Personal Homepages	Self-hosted directories, GeoCities, Angelfire, and Tripod accounts	182,450
Commercial Enterprises	Early dot-com businesses, BBS archives, and digital catalogs	15,600
Community & Culture	Web rings, guestbook directories, fan communities, and hobby sites	64,800

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If you are aware of an early web resource that has gone offline or is at risk of deletion, please use the form below to request archival. All submissions are reviewed by our curation team.

Contact Information

For institutional partnerships, API access, or press inquiries:

curators@1990webarchive.com
1990 Web Archive Foundation
403 Technology Lane
Cambridge, MA 02139

Database statistics updated weekly. Mirror sites available via Gopher and FTP.