[Your Name]

Hello. I keep The Archive, a small, hand-curated museum of internet history and an accompanying notebook of long-form essays. Before this I worked for many years adjacent to the web — first as a designer, more recently as a writer — and this site is the slower, more private project I always wanted to make.

The premise is simple. Most of the early personal web is gone, and most of what remains is unreadable in its original form. I select a small number of sites each year, produce careful archival snapshots, and write curatorial notes on what made each one worth keeping. The collection currently runs to forty-seven entries; you can browse the full catalogue here.

Alongside the museum I keep a notebook of essays, irregularly posted, on web aesthetics, the practice of digital preservation, and the slow disappearance of the amateur web. Recent pieces include Webring Aesthetics, 1997–2002 and On the Loss of the Guestbook.

I write here roughly once a month, accession new museum entries a few times a year, and answer most letters slowly but eventually. The best way to follow along is through the RSS feed; the best way to reach me is by email.