The handle itself is a tongue-in-cheek reference to an obsession with scale. To suffer from megalomania is to be obsessed with power; in the data hoarding community, it means an obsession with capacity . Megaloman is known for curating and seeding massive archives—terabytes upon terabytes of data—covering everything from obscure 1990s shareware to entire academic journal repositories. However, such an archive also raises important questions
However, such an archive also raises important questions about:
(2005–2008): A single Geocities page asserting that the creator had reverse-engineered the mathematical proof for a Theory of Everything. The proof took the form of a looping MIDI file and a Java applet that crashed most browsers.
Because it was produced by Toho during a period when they were transitioning away from traditional kaiju films, the archive serves as a critical resource for studying this "bridge" era of Japanese special effects.
The curators of the Megaloman Archive argue that the early web encouraged a healthy form of megalomania. When anyone could publish anything globally for free, suddenly every teenager with a PHP script could declare themselves the “Supreme Architect of the Information Superhighway.”