ALT Photo of an illuminated blue display screen showing the words "Digital Ghosts" in large white text over a glitchy, pixelated digital pattern, with a "Menace" sign visible on a glass panel in the foreground.

ALT Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

ALT Maeve Iwasaki demonstrates microfiche digitization at the Internet Archive's physical archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.

ALT Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with pallets visible inside.

ALT Screenshot of the Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon website, dated Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026, showing its masthead with a Golden Gate Bridge banner photo and navigation menu, above a "Then and Now" article titled "Clement Street and Funston Avenue." The article shows two side-by-side photos: on the left, a black-and-white 1930 photo of the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist and Reading Room, a Classical Revival building built in 1923 by architect Carl Werner; on the right, a color 2020s photo of the same building, captioned as now home to the Internet Archive, which purchased it in 2009.

ALT Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "HOMESTARRUNNER.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Homestar Runner web page from October 15, 2000, and September 13, 2026.

ALT Quote tile with an orange background and greenish-black text. Headline reads: "Can we archive a history that is designed to be hidden?" Quote below reads: "The invisible, and at times isolating, nature of care work contributes to the precarity of archiving women's care labor history." Attributed to Amanda Gray Rendon, Researcher. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.

ALT Logo of the Institute of Museum Library Services.

ALT Photo of a panel discussion at a "Digital Ghosts" event. Four panelists sit in red and gray chairs against a wall with projected text reading "Digital Ghosts" and "Dorsey, Kaufmann & Feeling Data." A large seated audience fills the foreground, with blue lighting throughout the gallery-like space.

ALT Event graphic for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm–10pm, at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco. On cream graph paper, a schematic line drawing of a classical library building (columns and pediment) is rendered in overlapping pink, blue, yellow, and orange lines with dot joints, beside bold black and pink text.

ALT Internet Archive logo beside the Better World Books logo, a blue-to-green winged book icon above the text "Better World Books," on a mustard-yellow background.

ALT Brewster Kahle gives a tour at the Physical Archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.

ALT Photo of a panel discussion at a "Digital Ghosts" event. Four panelists sit in red and gray chairs against a wall with projected text reading "Digital Ghosts" and "Dorsey, Kaufmann & Feeling Data." A large seated audience fills the foreground, with blue lighting throughout the gallery-like space.

ALT Internet Archive Wayback Machine logo.