What Weald95 Is
Weald95 is a free, hand-maintained archive of the open web: 833 working websites, filed into 22 subject sections. Each entry in the record is a working URL, a short description, and the section it belongs in. The archive is maintained by a single archivist; there is no algorithm, no ranking, and no editorial agenda beyond keeping the record accurate and the links working.
This is an archive, not a search engine. It does not guess your intent or personalise results. It holds a fixed record of filed sites, each verified before filing, visible in its section within minutes of submission. The record stays finite on purpose — breadth is less useful than legibility.
How a Site Gets Archived
You submit a URL on the filing page, choose the section it belongs in, and the site is entered in the archive. If you do not write a description, we fetch a short summary from your own page. The entry appears in the archive immediately. Filing is free and remains free — Weald95 has no paid tier, no promoted slots, and no tracking pixels.
What Gets Filed, What Does Not
We archive working websites — URLs that resolve to real content. We decline quietly: dead links, parked-domain redirects, sites behind a login wall from the first page, and anything that reads as a content farm or phishing site. We do not filter by topic, region, or language; we check only that the site is real and working.
Why an Archive
The open web was once navigated through small, hand-kept lists. Weald95 is in that lineage: 833 entries across 22 sections, not millions. The wager is that 22 legible sections are more useful than a search bar with an unbounded answer set behind it — because you can read the whole archive and know what is in it.