SCP Foundation

I'm just asking, it could be interesting to known when the fondation was created for tales or articles.

This is probably one of the most canonically there-is-no-canon elements. There are articles that suggest the Foundation was founded in the mid-20th century, and articles that suggest it predates our universe, and everything in between.

My hypothetical 001 proposal has it founded in 1860 (by Mark Twain as a private foundation with an imperial charter from Emperor Norton), but that currently exists only in my brain…

My head canon is that it's existed in different forms for at least the last couple of thousand years but only existed as "The Foundation" at some point in the early 1900's.

I remember reading one 001 proposal (the Factory) that placed the Foundation's (and many of the other GOI's) to begin in the 1870's or 1880's as a taskforce of the US government that was sent into a weird factory that created many anomalous things. Then the taskforce got divided as a crazy chaplain began worshipping some of the objects, stole them then left with his followers, creating the Church of the Broken God. Then an Indian guide set some of the objects on fire and left with his guys, creating the GOC (quite a social status climb for a Native American in the late 19th century). Then some guy called Marshal stole some more items to sell them, creating Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd. And finally those that insisted on actually doing what the president asked them left to Washington and created the UIU. Those that stayed behind (with people such as Nikola Tesla and the Bright family) created what later became the Foundation after joining up with some other preexisting organizations.

I like that canon tbh, but then again, I think the main SCP canon is "everything and nothing is canon". Just like the SCP's contained by the Foundation give proof that the God of Abraham is the one true God, that there is no god, that there is a devil and a Hell but no god, that the whole universe is a computer simulation and that everything is just the writings of some people on the internet writing horror stories. I'm pretty sure in that same vein of senselessness a curious researcher could find archives talking about the Foundation being founded in 1918, then another talking about a well-established foundation in 1901, then some talking about Foundation exploits in 1850, and yet another old parchment talking about Foundation personnel containing djinn on the Crusader States in 1124 AD.

So I think the best answer to "How old is the Foundation" is "yes".

To me, it's basically as old as you want it to be.
As other's have mentioned 'there is no canon' really applies here, so basically if you see a scp or tale that gives a date for founding and you like it, that's the date it was founded. And even if you can't find anything that gives a date you're happy with, just give it your own date, it doesn't matter!

My head cannon is that it was founded during the Crusades by the Catholic Church to archive and collect heretical objects in the Holy Land and things back home (like Succubi and Pixies and Pagan objects) and then shut down sometime during the Protestant Reformation. Then it was brought back by the colonial empires at the time (Britain, Spain, Portugal etc.) to archive the weird stuff they found in the New World.

My personal headcannon has the Foundation's history having CK-Class Restructuring Events, so every time that happens, the Foundation's previous history on how it was formed changes. Think the SCP-001-Wrong where the world already has gone through a CK-Class Restructuring Event, causing history to be much different than now.

So, the Foundation has been founded anywhen from the 40s all the way to the near rough 1800s. Especially since one of the SCPs has the innate ability to push humanity back in time by a removal of a nail in a jar of nail clippings.

But at the same time, I've always though that all SCP-001 Proposals were true. But that's another post somewhere here on this place.