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Overview
The Creative Internet Archive is a mission driven effort to preserve the digital artifacts that define modern creativity. By collecting, backing up, and indexing online works—from interactive sites to multimedia experiments—the archive creates a resilient record of culture for researchers, artists, and curious readers. This initiative supports open access and responsible stewardship, ensuring that works remain discoverable even when platforms change or disappear. The project aims to empower creators and communities to build on what came before without losing the threads that connect us.
Designed with inclusivity and accessibility in mind, the project seeks to reduce barriers to preservation and to invite collaboration across communities worldwide. Your support helps fund staff time, tooling, and hosting so that the Creative Internet Archive can scale as new formats emerge and as audiences seek fresh ways to engage with the past and the present. Together we can maintain a living archive that reflects diverse voices and evolving technologies.
Why Your Support Matters
Preserving the creative internet requires ongoing effort and steady resources. The project relies on generous partners, volunteers, and donors who believe in shared memory and open access. Your contribution to the Creative Internet Archive strengthens a global network that values integrity, learning, and responsibility to future generations.
Impact areas span preservation, accessibility, and community participation. By providing consistent support, you enable ongoing ingestion of new content, robust backups, and metered growth that respects license, attribution, and user rights. The goal is not just preservation but also meaningful discovery, enabling researchers, students, and creators to explore connections across platforms and eras.
- Preserve digital works for future creators and researchers, ensuring widespread access to resources from the Creative Internet Archive
- Expand multilingual access and inclusive design to reach a broader audience
- Fund secure hosting, backups, and regular integrity checks of materials
- Support community-led curation, documentation, and volunteer training
How Donations Are Used
Donations flow into a transparent, accountable mix of operational costs and program work. The Creative Internet Archive uses funds to strengthen infrastructure, perform security reviews, and drive ongoing development that improves ingestion, indexing, and search experiences for users around the world. This support also enables better outreach, training, and governance that keep the project open and participatory.
- Hosting and storage for archived content and artifacts
- Security audits, vulnerability fixes, and incident response planning
- Development of scalable tooling for ingestion, analysis, and metadata construction
- Public documentation, translation, and accessibility enhancements
- Outreach, partnerships, and governance work to involve volunteers and contributors
Community Voices
What I value most is that this project keeps cultural artifacts accessible to students and creators alike. It feels like a living library that welcomes diverse voices. — A member of the Creative Internet Archive community
The openness of the process builds trust. When you contribute, you see clear progress on backups, audits, and new features that improve how we explore the web’s creative past. — A supporter and contributor
Transparency And Trust
We aim for lasting integrity in every decision. Public reporting, open metrics, and governance that invites feedback are cornerstones of how the project operates. Regular updates about funding, milestones, and the state of our infrastructure are shared with the community, creating a durable, auditable record of progress.
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