PastPages is an open-source effort to better archive digital news.
The group is organized by Ben Welsh, a journalist and computer programmer based in Los Angeles. The repositories once stored in this organization have been relocated to Welsh’s GitHub account.
The project has generated a permanent collection of news homepages at the Internet Archive, a personalized clipping service that empowers journalists to preserve their work, a podcast celebrating the legacy of Studs Terkel, a social media bot that promotes photographs from the Los Angeles Public Library's historic collections and a series of open-source software packages that allow programmers to more easily archive born-digital material.