Sources & Credits
The Nineties Times is a research-grade 90s nostalgia archive. The facts you read here come from open public APIs — not from AI guesses. The images we show are commercially-licensed with explicit attribution. This page lists every source we use and how each one is credited.
TVMaze
- What we use it for
- Title, premiere date, cast, network, language, runtime, ratings, and episode counts for every show in the TV Vault.
- License
- CC BY-SA
- How we credit it
- Every TV detail page links back to its source page on TVMaze and credits TVMaze inline.
Wikimedia Commons
- What we use it for
- Primary source for hero images on detail pages. We only render assets whose license short name is in our allow-list (Public Domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA) AND that include a license URL.
- License
- Mixed CC / Public Domain (per-asset)
- How we credit it
- Each image carries an inline caption with photographer/uploader, license shortname, and license URL.
Openverse
- What we use it for
- Secondary image source when Wikimedia has no safe match. We query with license_type=commercial,modification so every result is OK for commercial use and modification.
- License
- CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA (per-asset)
- How we credit it
- Same inline caption as Wikimedia images: creator, license short name with link to the license, and a link back to the asset page on Openverse.
Wikidata
- What we use it for
- Structured metadata for people, events, music, and award lists. Queried via the public SPARQL endpoint.
- License
- CC0
- How we credit it
- Wikidata is CC0 and does not legally require attribution, but we cite it on detail pages anyway for transparency.
Open Library
- What we use it for
- Book metadata for the Books Vault: titles, authors, publication years, ISBNs.
- License
- Metadata: CC0. Cover images: per-edition; we check each.
- How we credit it
- Each book card links back to its Open Library work page.
Internet Archive
- What we use it for
- Archived 90s media — TV, radio, software, web snapshots. Per-item license is checked before rendering or embedding.
- License
- Per-item (Public Domain / CC variants / restricted)
- How we credit it
- Only items whose own metadata includes a permissive license URL are surfaced. Each is credited with the archive identifier.
Image licensing policy
Every image on a monetized page on this site must satisfy two rules simultaneously:
- The license short name must be in our allow-list: Public Domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA. Anything with a non-commercial (NC) or no-derivatives (ND) clause is filtered out automatically before the image reaches the page.
- The asset must expose a non-null license URL. If a source can't tell us where the license text lives, we don't render the image.
AdSense monetization is therefore safe under each source's commercial- use terms, and every reader can verify the license of any image in one click.