Behind the exhibits

The research archive

The museum is curated. This room shows the evidence underneath it: what was recovered, what remains missing, and how claims are handled.

Status

The primary domain inventory is complete with documented Wayback gaps. No unresolved capture is silently counted as recovered.

2,580Indexed response bodies
2,036Bodies preserved
88.6%Historical page depth
100%Mapped content URLs

What the day of crawling produced

The long-running work was not the public website. It was a forensic recovery pass across every distinct response body indexed by the Wayback Machine for the primary domain. Each timestamped candidate was attempted, its digest checked where possible, and every success or failure logged.

That process preserved 1,966 of 2,220 indexed page bodies and mapped every one of the 266 recovered content URLs. It also catalogued links, frames, image references, changing fragments, and later domain-takeover material so unrelated content could not masquerade as ISTPF history.

What “complete” means

It does not mean every line the Foundation ever wrote survives. Wayback never captured some pages, some stored captures no longer replay, the mailed newsletter predates the public web, and external sites were outside the primary-domain scope.

It does mean every indexed primary-domain body candidate is accounted for: preserved locally or named in the unresolved ledger.

How the museum uses it

The forensic archive answers “what evidence exists?” The museum answers “why should a visitor care?” Biographies, timelines, captions, rosters, and issue guides are editorial layers built from the evidence rather than substitutes for it.