Our History.
Founding
Perpetually was founded in 2009 thanks to Alan Greenspan. While reading The Age of Turbulence in 2008, Darrell Silver noticed how many of Greenspan's footnotes referenced online data. Current economics data is only a Google search away, but knowing what Greenspan saw when he guided the US economy is nearly impossible. Even worse, information on the web provides no way of knowing when it has changed, if at all.
Darrell immediately began researching how to provide permanence for web content that's always changing. After six months of development, Perpetually launched as a TechCrunch 50 Finalist on September 15, 2009.
Over the past three years, Perpetually's founding team and advisors include technologists and designers, open web advocates and investors. Among them are Max Bogue, Joe Kendall, Prashant Kumar, Chris Messina, Dan Moss, Jeremy Mims, Kyle Morton, Paddy Mullen, Saki Sato and Darrell Silver.
Mission
We believe in the value of history. All the designs, blog posts, images and billions of dollars that go into the web today shouldn't be thrown away with each update. As the web becomes increasingly real-time, it's important not to lose our long-term memory.
For the legal and compliance markets, the need to keep a record of what was published to the web resembles how email archiving began fifteen years ago. Even in this infancy, we can already see how instant, searchable access to the history of the web makes our customers smarter, faster and better prepared to innovate in the future.
Future
Fortune 50 companies trust Perpetually with their online history. It's not an obligation we take lightly, and it's not a one-time committment. We're constantly improving and adapting our technology to new trends and techniques in web development.
Social networks and shared documents in the cloud are now a corporate reality. As a result, the need for a verifiable, electronic record of what was said and when is increasing rapidly. We look forward to providing the market solutions to meet this growing need.
Demo
New York Tech Meetup June 8th, 2010