Archive of Our Own

Archive of Our Own
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Archive of Our Own's homepage.
Type of site
Fanfiction
FoundedOctober 2008 (2008-10)
OwnerOrganization for Transformative Works
URLarchiveofourown.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users8,504,000[1]
Launched14 November 2009 (2009-11-14) (Open beta)
Written inRuby

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit, open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta.[2] As of 14 May 2025, Archive of Our Own hosts over 15,000,000 works in over 71,720 fandoms, including those related to real people.[1] The site has received generally positive reception for its curation, organization, and design, mostly done by readers and writers of fanfiction as well as those participating in fandom culture.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b "AO3 Home Page (via Wayback Machine)". Archive of Our Own. 1 January 2025. Archived from the original on 1 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Announcing Open Beta!". Organization for Transformative Works. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  3. ^ Fiesler, Casey; Morrison, Shannon; Bruckman, Amy S. (2016). An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design. CHI 2016. San Jose, CA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 2574–2585. doi:10.1145/2858036.2858409. ISBN 978-1-4503-3362-7.
  4. ^ Grossman, Lev (1 May 2013). "50 Best Websites 2013: Archive of Our Own". Time. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.

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