Script Foundation is a volunteer-run archive documenting the software that hosted internet communities — the boards, guilds, and fandoms that ran on it, and the people who built and maintained it.
Script Foundation started as a personal habit: rescuing screenshots of boards before their hosts shut down for good. What began as a folder of orphaned .png files became a shared spreadsheet, then a wiki, then this. Every entry exists because a community's software — its themes, its quirks, its administrative culture — is as much a part of internet history as the conversations it hosted.
We're not trying to relaunch these platforms or resurrect dead boards. The goal is closer to a library's: keep an accurate, citable record of what existed, who built it, and how it changed — so that a piece of internet history isn't only findable through broken links and secondhand memory.
We start from original release notes, developer documentation, and archived installation media wherever they still exist.
Screenshots and interface claims are checked against Wayback Machine captures and other public archives.
Former administrators and users of a given board are invited to confirm or correct details before an entry is published.
Every entry can be flagged for review. Corrections are logged, not silently edited.
A note on citations. Where a claim can't be independently verified, we mark it as unconfirmed rather than omit it — a gap in the record is still worth documenting.
Spot an error, or have material we don't have on file?
corrections@scriptfoundation.orgScript Foundation has no ads-first business model and no institutional backing. Hosting, research hours, and long-term storage are funded almost entirely by readers.