I am the Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, a non-profit public charity and a library which runs the Wayback Machine-- no one 'owns' the Internet Archive.
Taylor Lorenz is not my niece, nor have I met her.
Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle
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Brewster Kahle
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Thank you! We bought the building because it matched our logo, the logo we had for 15 years.
And it has been a great home. (a former Christian Science Church, built in 1923)
that is a good idea. We should have an open-house at the Physical Archive. I will look into it.
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Yes, the is trying to preserve one copy of Every Book Ever Published (both digitally and physically)
All Pre-1923 Recorded Music enters Public Domain (in the US)
all at once, and
for the first time for any recorded sound, and
it happens tonight!
38,000 recordings available from ! 
blog.archive.org/2022/01/01/wel
blog.archive.org/2022/01/01/welOur new facility will safely house and preserve millions of books, records, films, videos, floppies, ...!
Long live libraries and archives.
Please donate to the Internet Archive if you can.
archive.org/donate
We are a bargain! Serving millions every day with books music video and web archives.
Please help keep everything freely available.
Power outage at an datacenter that is knocking out archive.org and openlibrary.org. No estimated time of repair yet. :(
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John Zuchelli
@tvzuke
#DEVELOPING @PGE4Me reporting that more than 28,000 customers are without power in the Bay Area. The outages are weather related due to fog and mist. In the Richmond area more than 10k customers are without power. Crews are working to restore power. @nbcbayarea
San Francisco: If #xfinity still down tomorrow and you need Internet... come to the after 8am.
We have 100Gbits/sec (really) and Free. (Vax proof + mask required)
Wayback Machine is on a tear: now 784Billion web objects (~784,103,430,000) at web.archive.org uh, please donate to support archive.org/donate all of this is important and expensive.
Libraries lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit -- Please retweet if you support library lending of digitized books. blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/int
20,000 texts and movies from 1923 now public domain in the US and free to bulk download and play with! yippie! blog.archive.org/2019/01/05/a-p via
Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down
What just happened on archive.org today, as best we know: blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let
blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let
$3000 donated anonymously to the in bitcoin just now. Made our day! blockchain.info/address/1Archi Thank you!
Please donate to to stand by your library.
100Petabytes and growing-- building a record of our time for us all to enjoy.
archive.org/donate
Don't Delete our Books! Rally was huge success.
What does it mean we have to have pro-library rally's? with Book Bannings, library shutdowns, and suits.
#DigitalRightsForLibraries
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...The publishers have taken more than 500 banned books from our lending library, such as 1984, The Color Purple, and Maus.
This is a devastating loss for digital learners everywhere.
We are appealing the ruling today. Stand by libraries.
blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/int
Wayback Machine evidence holds up in court: not our original target use, but glad it is not doubted in court. go
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National Law Review
@natlawreview
Patent Owner’s Challenge to Wayback Machine Evidence Fails ow.ly/pneM308CYPN @AKKLawFirm #ip #patent
The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars
He founded the Internet Archive with a utopian vision. That hasn't changed, but the internet has
Internet Archive in cover article of the SF Chronicle!
sfchronicle.com/tech/article/H via and
"The free market is essentially a casino that you can never leave." a casino where with only one eventual winner. Important article that disproves: free market leads to many winners, to "liberty"--it doesn't. Without Redistribution we get Oligarchy, Fast.
Archive.org is back up (!)
but the Internet Archive is currently overly broad on IP addresses that are being blocked. Working on narrowing it down.
libraries need your help. the Internet Archive needs your help.
Please come to the Don't delete our books! Rally
in San Francisco
Sat, April 08 11:00 AM by Fight for the Future
location: Internet Archive• 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118 US
703,726,890,000 URL's now in the by the ! (703 billion) Over a billion more added each week. The Web is a grand experiment in sharing and giving. Loving it! web.archive.org
Pages from the Wayback Machine were "admissible" in many court cases. Many. This is an article that lists lots:
lexology.com/library/detail
what a world.
An obscure copyright law is letting the Internet Archive distribute books published 1923-1941 boingboing.net/2017/10/10/lib
"Our Digital History Is at Risk" by me in Time Magazine
Free societies need access to history, unaltered by changing corporate or political interests.
This is the role that libraries have played and need to keep playing.
blog.archive.org/2023/02/07/our
Why archive TV news? This is one reason.
Internet Archive's TV Archive was used to prove an TV News caption (called chyron) was altered, and then tweeted by Elon Musk.
This is why we need publicly accessible archives! go ! go AFP!
the has added a Mastodon Server
mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchi
fyi: I'm
mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle
blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we- via
We are sorry for the outage at A graph we dont like to see... (but you can see it coming up on the right hand side):
78rpm records, by the thousand, are being uploaded to Right Now!
Many are wacky or charming, but in a familiar kind of way. @great78project
Here are this month's uploads, in most recently-uploaded-first:
archive.org/details/george
archive.org/details/78_oh-
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Here is Twitter's deleted their policy page and their tweet about it.
Patrons of used the Save Page Now feature to save it.
old tweet page and current missing page (/w to archived policy page): web.archive.org/web/2022121818
Important victory in Canada against the "everything in a library is licensed" approach.
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Michael Geist
@mgeist
Access Copyright suffers another massive defeat in court. Ordered to repay tens of millions in overpayment of licence fees along with court costs to provincial Ministries of Education. Various Access Copyright claims about licensing rejected.
x.com/howardknopf/st
