Last updated: 28 December 2025
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First of all, it’s pronounced Ar-kai-ving, not Ar-kee-vee or Ar-kai-vee. The dot reflects the domain, but it has nothing to do with pronunciation.
Archivi.ng is a non-profit organisation that preserves history and makes it useful.
We started with old newspapers and magazines that hold information you can't find online, digitised them, built a search engine on top of them, and help the world make sense of everything the archives hold.
From the beginning, Archivi.ng has operated on the assumption that history is foundational. Societies rely on it, consciously or not, to understand themselves, interpret change, and make decisions about the future. When that foundation is weak, inaccessible or fragmented, collective understanding degrades. Patterns disappear, and mistakes are more likely to repeat.
Archivi.ng exists to strengthen that foundation.
This means our work is not oriented around novelty, speed or short-term relevance. It’s oriented around durability. The choices we make—what we preserve, how to describe it, how to connect it and how to surface it—are made with the expectation that they’ll be relied upon years, even decades, from now.
We’re building Archivi.ng to outlast all individual contributors, leadership, funding cycles, and technological shifts. People will come and go; Archivi.ng must remain coherent.
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