🐸 Hampshire · 1965–2026

Welcome to frogbook!

Frogbook is a living archive and community for Hampshire people — a permanent home for the photographs, Div IIIs, memories, and voices that made Hampshire what it was.

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Free, forever. No ads. No algorithm. Every dollar publicly accounted for.

Prescott
Fall '97
Commencement
2001
Farm Center
'88
Div III
submission
Mod 7
Spring '03
Zine fair
'09
Faculty
syllabi
Ephemera
Oral
history

What Frogbook is

An archive first.
A community because of it.

A living archive

Photos, ephemera, zines, commencement posters, oral histories, faculty syllabi. Organized by era, housing, division, and event — searchable, tagged, and permanent.

A Div III Library

The most Hampshire thing about Hampshire was the Div III. Thousands of projects exist only on hard drives and in memory. Frogbook gives them a permanent home — voluntarily submitted, permanently browsable.

A third space

Not a replacement for social media. A deliberate alternative to it. A slow, permanent, algorithm-free room where Hampshire people from 1972 and 2022 can exist in the same space.

Why not just Facebook?

Because none of those platforms were built to last.

MySpace lost its music archive. Geocities deleted millions of pages. Vine disappeared overnight. Every memory uploaded to a mainstream platform belongs to someone who had nothing to do with Hampshire — and can vanish at any time.

Frogbook is self-hosted, community-owned, and independent. No corporation controls it. No algorithm buries 1997. No advertiser profits from Hampshire people’s grief and nostalgia.

Alums from the 70s–90s
Already on Facebook and email lists. Frogbook doesn't ask them to leave — it gives them a place where their memories are the primary thing, not a sidebar to an algorithm.
Millennial alums
Spread across WhatsApp group chats and Instagram. Frogbook gives them a place where Hampshire is the whole context, not a thread buried in a general-purpose feed.
Gen Z students
Used to platforms that move fast and disappear faster. Frogbook offers the opposite: slow, permanent, searchable. A place where the work they did at Hampshire is preserved rather than scrolled past.
Faculty & staff
The people who shaped Hampshire alongside students. Their syllabi, their memories, and their decades of work belong in this archive too.

The archive roadmap

It starts with photos.

1
Now
Stories & photographs
The foundation. Members upload, caption, and tag photos. Collections organized by era, housing, division, and event. Admin-controlled taxonomies prevent tag chaos.
2
Coming
Audio & video
Commencement recordings, lectures, performances, short films, event footage. When cloud storage scales up, the archive opens to everything Hampshire sounded and looked like.
3
The goal
The Div III Library
A searchable, browsable collection of Hampshire Div III projects — submitted voluntarily, permanently accessible. The most personal work Hampshire students ever did, preserved forever.
∞
Beyond
Oral histories & beyond
Oral history recordings. Faculty papers. Course syllabi. Campus maps. A living institutional memory for anyone who wants to know what Hampshire was — and why it mattered.

If Hampshire was ever part of your life,
this is for you.

Frogbook is open to anyone with a genuine connection to Hampshire College — from any era, any role, any corner of the world.

Alumni
Hampshire graduates from any era — from the founding class through the final cohort of 2026.
Students
Including those whose studies were interrupted or ended by Hampshire's closure. Your work belongs here too.
Faculty & staff
Past and present — the people who shaped the Hampshire experience alongside students for over fifty years.
Heartbroken supporters
Parents, partners, friends, and community members who love Hampshire and want to stay connected to its story.
The honor system
Frogbook doesn't use email domain verification or ID checks. Instead, new members answer questions only someone with a genuine Hampshire experience would know. Trust first — the way Hampshire always did it.
"What was your Div III about — or what would it have been?"
"Name a Hampshire tradition or piece of campus culture that mattered to you."
"What's one thing about Hampshire you can't explain to people who weren't there?"

Radical transparency

No hidden costs.
No hidden money.

Frogbook has no investors, no advertising, and no business model built on your data. It is sustained entirely by the community it serves — through voluntary donations and a community merch program.

Every dollar in and every dollar out is publicly visible on Open Collective — not in a quarterly report, but in real time, by anyone, always.

Year 1 running costs Complete. Nothing hidden.
Hostinger Business hosting (12 months) $59.88
Domain registration $0.00
FluentCommunity (free plan) $0.00
Tainacan archive (free, open source) $0.00
Media storage (Cloudflare R2) $0.00
Total — Year 1 $59.88
We are setting up our public ledger with Open Collective, so every transaction and donation are available for the public.

Hampshire does not have to be just physical.
Its people are here.

Join the community that’s building the archive Hampshire deserves. Free, forever, for everyone who was ever part of it.

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