Museum of Screens

About us The Internet is a media in constant evolution, but not often in a good way. The rise of social media and big tech companies overshadowing smaller websites slowly turns the Internet into a predictable market, shaped to suit the needs of the peoples in charge. And they do very little to preserve the history of the Internet. Sadly, browser games are often the first things to be lost. Sure many notable games are preserved and celebrated, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. There are literally thousands of games out there, made by amateurs, small teams or companies. Passion projects that peoples poured their hearts into, got a bit of recognition but were lost because of various reasons. Even worse, some games got incredibly famous outside of the creator’s intent because they were copied and pasted on other websites, without any credits. We can see many projects of preservation nowadays, but browser games are unique in the matter, because they are the least tangibles ones. Even downloadable-only games can be archived, but often, browser games are just available as long as the server they are running on is still operational. And sure, Flash files can be downloaded and archived, but what about online game in PHP? I didn’t wanted to make a large scale project of game preservation, but I wanted to create something that could be used as a reference of browser games history, by collecting as much information as possible about them. And ost of all, I wanted to give proper credits to all these forgotten creators.