Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the @waybackmachine.
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The internet archive's Wayback Machine library is a planetary treasure. It preserves the archive of the web. Don't let publishers take it down. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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Join us Oct 27, 5:30–8:30 PM at Internet Archive Canada HQ in Vancouver for Open by Design: Tools for Participation.
Meet the inaugural AI Builders Fellows + hear from Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on the future of the open internet.
RSVP: luma.com/58wdnop2
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Out of the first 25 websites featured in the book, only 5 are still up.
The book is from 23 years ago, so I'm not surprised, but still pretty sad... Most of the 90s/00s Web no longer exists.
At least we can experience some of it thanks to The Internet Archive! :')
Taschen's 1000 Favorite Websites (2003) - Julius Wiedemann.
i think we are living in the ruins of an advanced and creative civilization. jk, but nowadays all UIs seem the same
drive.google.com/file/d/1VWE…
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If you were too young to remember 9/11 or weren't yet born, the @internetarchive has a fantastic TV news archive where you can watch the events unfold that day from before any planes crashed all the way through to the evening broadcasts.
If you were not old enough to watch the news on 9/11, there is an amazing resource at @internetarchive where you can watch TV news from that day and watch the evolution from "Huh, something hit a WTC building" to "We're under attack!" archive.org/details/911/day/…
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Interesting, because Amazon would have me believing that in order to digitize a book you have to destroy the rare first edition version of it for your AI.
(thank you Internet Archive for archiving our internet and media <3, you are an invaluable resource)
We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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i've seen this in person, it's incredible
We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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I'm excited to share that the @internetarchive has published a feature introducing the Google Summer of Code contributors working on @openlibrary this summer!
Over the past few months, I've been helping improve how readers discover books by...
blog.archive.org/2026/07/15/…
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"As more of our cultural heritage moves online, a troubling question is emerging: what happens when the things we create, share, and cherish simply disappear?"
From our 1st episode of the 6-part series on Vanishing Culture, out today on Future Knowledge. futureknowledge.transistor.f…
Important updates:
News on physical discs for new games - play.st/4v86Wg3
News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - play.st/4vEN9FX
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Sony has neither the customer support or account security to support an all digital ecosystem.
gamingbible.com/news/platform/…
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If you’ve wondered why the ebook issue has seen so little meaningful national policy action in support of libraries, LOOK NO FURTHER: ALA’s former policy lead publishing a defense of the status quo—funded by PRH, the nation’s largest publisher. 😡🤯
libraryjournal.com/story/new…
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I'm thankful for y'all for so many reasons.
With regards to lost Canadian media, I recalled an old online game by @N_Reflections and eventually found it using the archive. Though just an intro screen seems to be archived, I'll continue to treasure it. web.archive.org/web/20031203…
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Read books.
These books you could buy at Neo-Cypherpunk Summit & support freedom cause:
"The Politics of Privacy" curated by @PG_CDG
"Vanishing Culture" by @internetarchive
"Decolonizing Money" by @Julio_Linares_
"Blockchain Radicals" by @TBSocialist
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👋 Librarian @internetarchive here. See the FAQ: help.archive.org/help/faq-pu…
“The Wayback Machine is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, and monitoring to prevent abusive access, and we watch for and actively respond to new scraping patterns as they emerge.”
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The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web’s memory bank withstand the AI era? f-st.co/XelXI7B
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Just last summer I sat in a packed room of journalists at IRE who gave @MarkGraham a standing ovation for his work manning the Wayback Machine + Internet Archive. What an incredibly short-sighted and destructive move by these publishers
grim grim grim niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-t…
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Another reason why the @internetarchive is so important.
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⌛ 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆!
Today, May 15, at 23:59 CEST we are closing both the Call for Proposals and Early Bird ticket sales for #DWebCamp 2026 🏕️
💡Secure your spot and submit your ideas now!
dwebcamp.org
ALT Tim Berners-Lee speaking at DWeb Camp 2023, and an overlay graphic with the caption: “Last day to buy // Early Bird Tickets”
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Happy 30th Birthday Internet Archive!
On May 10, 1996, Brewster Kahle founded a non-profit organization called the Internet Archive.
#InternetHistory
ALT Internet Archive website in 1997
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openai․com was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and tiktok․com was the quaint shared homepage of a couple who went from dating to married with a baby (~1998-2001). THREAD!!!
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Trillion.
The Wayback Machine has archived more than a trillion web pages.
But thank you for the coverage :-)
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The @waybackmachine has more than a BILLION archived web pages - lawyers, researchers, journos & the public rely on it to view deleted or modified content online... now it's at risk. Learn about the @internetarchive this Sunday at 8 PM on @tvo or Youtube @BigIfTrueTVO