In solemn session
The Hall of Internet
Greatness
A personal archive of things I think are worth preserving. Some of these are profound. Some are technically brilliant. Some are historically important. Some are literally the dumbest things ever created. All of them, in my expert opinion, are worth keeping.
This is the separate wing of the site: not just math or software, but classic videos, strange artifacts, beautiful tools, and things that would make the internet worse if they disappeared. If something here vanishes from the public web, I want it known that I cared enough to keep a copy.
Distinctions, medals, and undying esteem are awarded at the sole whim of the Hall.
Floor plan
7 inductees across 4 categories.
Archives & Preservation
2 entries
The Grand Permanence Medal
For doing more than almost anyone else to ensure the web does not dissolve into rumor.
Internet Archive / Wayback Machine
The single most important institutional memory system on the public web: a vast archive of pages, media, software, and vanished internet history.
The Order of Regional Broadcast Immortality
For preserving the exact moment local news crossed into permanent internet myth.
The Original Crichton Leprechaun News Story
An immortal local-news segment from Mobile, Alabama that became one of the early web's great viral videos.
Research & Reference
2 entries
The Order of Mathematical Public Service
For making it possible to look at a strange sequence of integers and ask the internet what universe it belongs to.
OEIS — The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
A monumental reference work for integer sequences: part encyclopedia, part mathematical commons, part search engine for pattern recognition.
The Order of Severe Benchmarks
For funding one of the internet's purest examples of turning a philosophical argument into a file-size contest.
The Hutter Prize
An aggressively old-school prize site that treats better compression of Wikipedia as a measurable path toward machine intelligence.
Personal Sites
1 entry
The Grand Archive Laurels
For lifetime achievement in public weirdness, mathematical density, and internet maximalism.
mrob.com — Robert Munafo's Website
A sprawling personal site covering mathematics, large numbers, fractals, cellular automata, and more. The kind of website that used to be common and should still be.
Math & Formalism
2 entries
The Order of Inverse Sorcery
For creating a program that feels impossible, useful, and slightly illegal.
RIES — Robert Munafo's Inverse Equation Solver
The original RIES program by Robert P. Munafo. Given a real number, finds simple algebraic equations that have that number as a solution.
The hall is still being stocked.