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The Grand Permanence Medal

For doing more than almost anyone else to ensure the web does not dissolve into rumor.

Featured Archives & Preservation

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.

Featured Video Archives & Preservation

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.

The Grand Archive Laurels

For lifetime achievement in public weirdness, mathematical density, and internet maximalism.

Featured Personal Sites

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.

The Order of Severe Benchmarks

For funding one of the internet's purest examples of turning a philosophical argument into a file-size contest.

Research & Reference

The Hutter Prize

An aggressively old-school prize site that treats better compression of Wikipedia as a measurable path toward machine intelligence.