The digital dark age is a solvable problem.

Between the creation of the Apple II and the widespread adoption of the internet, a massive cultural shift occurred, written entirely in code. Much of that software is currently stored on degrading magnetic media, locked in attics, or lost entirely.

We work with historians, engineers, and museums to digitize, document, and contextualize early computing history. We treat BASIC listings, early operating systems, and primitive graphics encodings with the same archival rigor as historical manuscripts.

What the “digital dark age” means

A digital dark age is the loss of an era’s record because the media decays and the means to read it disappears. Unlike paper, which fails slowly and legibly, magnetic media fails suddenly and silently — and the hardware that once read it is itself becoming scarce. The window to recover much of 1977–1998 closes within our lifetimes. That is precisely why the work is urgent, and why it is fundable: every dollar buys recovery capacity against a deadline set by physics.