We’re a bunch of 90s kids with a server problem.
Radical Rewind started in 2019 as a shared Google Drive full of scanned magazine pages. Five years and 8,400 artifacts later, we’re the internet’s most obsessively-curated tribute to the decade that invented us.
Preservation, but fun.
Museums do the serious work. We do the other work — the part where you actually want to stay and poke around for three hours. Our archive is searchable, tactile, slightly chaotic, and occasionally plays the intro to “Fresh Prince” without warning.
Every artifact is sourced from fans, vetted against period-accurate references, and tagged with the trivia nobody else bothered to write down.
Deeply Searchable
Filter by year, format, vibe, and 23 other facets. Our tagging is borderline unhealthy.
Community-Sourced
Half our artifacts come from fans who mailed us their yearbooks. (We returned them. Usually.)
Period-Accurate
Every date, price, and commercial break verified against actual TV Guide scans. No fake nostalgia.
How We Got Here
From a suspicious Google Drive folder to 142K monthly readers.
A Google Drive is born
Two co-workers started scanning magazine pages during slow afternoons. Folder name: “pog_research_DO_NOT_DELETE”.
First 1,000 visitors
Launched a static site on a whim. Reddit found it. Two of our servers did not survive.
The Scrunchie Incident
A vintage Claire’s scrunchie we posted went viral. We gained 40K followers and 14 mailed-in shoeboxes of memorabilia.
Audio archive launches
2,400 tracks, mixtape liner notes, and Saturday morning cartoon bumpers. You can now hear the 90s.
Still rewinding
8,400+ artifacts, 142K readers, one full-time archivist, and a lot of strong opinions about Fruitopia.
The Archivists
Four humans and one cat who refused to be left off the page.
Jamie K.
Owns 47 scrunchies. Grew up on Nick at Nite. Still mad about Pogs.
Rosa V.
Can identify a sitcom theme song in under 1 second. Science cannot explain it.
Dev P.
Built our mixtape streaming engine. Owns an actual working Walkman.
Murph
The cat. Has opinions on which Lisa Frank binders get featured.
Got an artifact?
We want to see it.
That shoebox of Pogs. The Trapper Keeper you refuse to throw out. The VHS with your birthday party on it. Send us scans — we’ll credit you forever.
Send Us a Scan