Aggregating, indexing, and sharing the world’s creations is an emerging industry. With Final Cut Express, Garage Band, Photoshop, and other software, it’s never been easier to create and share videos, images, music, and words. One organization views collecting, organizing, and sharing the world’s content as the “alchemy of converting ephemera into artifacts,” and they have a pretty big head start: Archive.org. Fans of the Grateful Dead played a leading role in its early adoption. Archive.org is actually archiving the entire web. Here’s what Dominion Strategies’ first website looked like in 2000.
