From ancient forums to chaotic 2000s web design, this site preserves decades of internet history for you to explore.

The Internet Archive has been responsible for saving and providing access to trillions of websites over the past 30 years. AI is putting a damper on the organization’s work, as large language models ...

At some point, the internet stopped feeling inhabited. Not suddenly, with some final, pop-up, mandatory logout screen, but gradually, like a town emptying one storefront at a time until, suddenly, the ...

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The Kill Your Darlings star recently revealed that he feels less “cringe” to watch his early movies as a child actor. Daniel Radcliffe appeared on Josh Horowitz’s Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, where ...

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes. Now 59, Jacobs knows that these cassettes are going to ...

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions of webpages and websites. It performs an invaluable role in preserving ...

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. USA Today Co., the publishing ...

A fun new website is bringing our nostalgia for Flash videos to the forefront by shuffling through classic Newgrounds animations. Although it originated in the 1990s, Newgrounds hit its stride in the ...

Every year since 1972, New York’s Film at Lincoln Center has held the New Directors/New Films Festival, which has showcased early work from directors like Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Guillermo Del ...

Technology often follows the same pattern: a complex invention exists for years before it becomes useful to everyday people. The early internet worked the same way. Complex systems like TCP/IP stayed ...

The early internet wasn’t faster. It wasn’t smarter. It definitely wasn’t prettier. But it felt...alive. Slightly chaotic. Slightly unhinged. And very human. Justice Department publishes missing ...