We need a good pre-AI archive of the web

that's not good. it doesn't have the geocities site i made in the early mid 90s

Are you sure? I know they have a good chunk. I could not remember my address for my Area51 site that turned into a Heroes of Might and Magic dial up tournament. It might be there.

What was your site?

Algorithmic content has already dominated the web for many years.

https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/

The Internet Archive is pretty biased, anyway.

Paper books are a really great alternative.

It’s called internet archive before release of gpt