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Here’s an insider report on what’s going on behind the scenes to bring Internet Archive services online: www.reddit.com/r/internetar...
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I am in town (SF) for our events next week, I talked to many people with more to come, and I'm sneaking out this verified fact:

People are working so incredibly hard.

The teams have getting the site back secure and safe as the number one priority. They have taken no days off this past week. They are taking none this weekend. There is a small set of people working on organizing the events next week. The rest, the developers and admins, this is all they are doing.

The vast amount of our patrons understand the situation. A few do not and seem to think we are not doing this work literally round the clock. I spent today talking with tired and thoughtful people putting their all in. 

If someone out there was to do some grand gesture for this team, let me know. Otherwise, be assured: they are working with all of their energy and considerable talent.
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Update, Mark Graham ⬇️ "Wanted to share an update from Team Wayback Machine The archives are safe & the Wayback Machine is up in read-only mode. We hope to turn more web crawling on within a day to make sure our web collections remain whole. Next up: Save Page Now. Thank you for the support!"
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The Wayback machine is up, the Blog is up, the Mastodon is up. The staff is working intensely to lock down and clean up the site and the goal is to come back, and stay back.
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Latest update (Oct 15, 2:20pm PT) from : "Wayback Machine running strong (yippie!). Still working to bring archive.org items & other services online safely. @internetarchive team spirits high, but tired."
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Latest update from : “@waybackmachine volume is back to normal: 1,500 requests per second. Sorry we don't have other services yet.  (Your good wishes have helped a good team @internetarchive ) more as it happens.”
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Latest update, : “The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner. Sorry, no Save Page Now yet. Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again. Please be gentle web.archive.org More as it happens.”
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Latest update from (Oct 12, 10:17pm PT): “Archive.org sub services coming back up when they can, safely.  e.g. Email working. Now contract crawls for National Libraries (important to make keep collections whole) Thank you for the patience.   More as it happens.”
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Latest update on the DDOS attack from Brewster Kahle (Oct 11 @ 10:22am PT): "The data is safe. Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard. Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks. Thank you for the offers of pizza (we are set)."
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Latest update from : “Update: @internetarchive’s data has not been corrupted. Services are currently stopped to upgrade internal systems. We are working to restore services as quickly and safely as possible. Sorry for this disruption.”
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UPDATE (October 10, 3:36am PT) on the DDOS attack on Internet Archive. We will share more as we know it.
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Public records are essential for accountability and transparency. 🗄️ In the latest post for our
series, Maria Bustillos () explores the critical role of preserving these 'receipts' for future generations. Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/10/08/v...
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Charlie Barlow, BLC: "While Schonfield suggests that libraries have limited market power, this overlooks that ITHAKA, through JSTOR, brokers nearly $100 million in content agreements with publishers annually, largely supported by library funding." ⤵️ www.libraryfutures.net/post/cdls-fu...
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We’re thrilled to announce that Aruba will receive the 2024 Internet Archive Hero Award! 🇦🇼 Join us in celebrating this island nation’s groundbreaking efforts in digital preservation & making cultural heritage accessible worldwide: blog.archive.org/2024/10/07/a...
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Interested in the services Internet Archive offers to the library community? 📚🔗🎵 Join our annual Library Leaders Forum to learn more! 📅 Oct 17 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET 📍Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/library-le...
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Invaluable reference material for writers of historical fiction.
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Regional cookbooks are more than recipes—they're a window into our shared cultural traditions and histories. Preserving these practical guides ensures future generations can savor the stories of our past. 🍲📚
🔗 Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
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Thank you to everyone who helped raise $4,211 to support the Internet Archive’s Open Library!
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I've been a bit dark with regard to Internet Archive lately. Here's yams
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Most of the headline-grabbing copyright battles over the past few years have been over AI. But the Internet Archive is fighting its own war over copyright—and it's in grave danger. www.wired.com/story/intern...
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What is fair use & why does it matter for creators? 🎧️ Listen in as experts Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi talk about their landmark book, "Reclaiming Fair Use"—now in its second edition! Co-hosted with Authors Alliance. ▶️ archive.org/details/recl...
Reclaiming Fair Use, featuring Dave Hansen, Patricia Aufderheide, and Peter Jaszi, all wearing black.
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🎂 Celebrate F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday with a look back at "The Great Gatsby" and his other literary classics. 🖋📚 Read "Gatsby"—now in the public domain—on the Internet Archive ➡️ archive.org/details/the-...
Classic cover of The Great Gatsby
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Did you know that besides archiving the Cartoon Network website, we also saved other media in our collections? Explore the archived flash games featured in this month’s Best of the Archive Newsletter at us20.campaign-archive.com?u=38bd615438...
Flash game preserved, "Dexter's Laboratory Runaway Robot"
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I'm able to do my work this morning thanks to , as is often the case.
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New post from , “Lending of Digitized Books” ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/21/l...
“We respect the opinion of the courts and, while we are saddened by how this setback affects our patrons and the future of all libraries, the Internet Archive remains strong and committed to our mission of Universal Access to All Knowledge.”
 Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
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Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? A reflection on one of the many valuable functions of the Internet Archive. blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v...
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Excellent post by Brad Bigelow "So much of the literature that has historically been remote & inaccessible can now be found just steps from their front doors 🎬 Also read: ideasroadshow.com/barbarians-a...
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Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? 📚🕳️ Discover how lost stories hold the key to cultural memory, creativity & knowledge in a new post from author & editor Brad Bigelow of Neglected Books. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v... #VanishingCulture
“One must look beyond literature’s well-traveled paths and discover the riches to be found in the vast landscape of forgotten books.”
Brad Bigelow
Author and editor, Neglected Books
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I've found some really interesting local history tidbits in the Internet Archive that I believe I would never have otherwise discovered.
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Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? 📚🕳️ Discover how lost stories hold the key to cultural memory, creativity & knowledge in a new post from author & editor Brad Bigelow of Neglected Books. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v...
“One must look beyond literature’s well-traveled paths and discover the riches to be found in the vast landscape of forgotten books.”
Brad Bigelow
Author and editor, Neglected Books
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I am grateful to the Internet Archive for their dedication to digital preservation and lifting up others with the Community Webs Program.💗
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6 × 8" linocut relief print, CC BY 4.0
Black ink linocut print of a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”.
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New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/n...
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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We know many, including researchers, value seeing previous versions of webpages when available. That’s why beginning today, we're adding links to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to our "About this result" panel, to give quick context & make this helpful info easily accessible via Search.
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Person arguing with me in DMs that the Hachette decision is good for authors and not detrimental to readers who can just use a library: “I’m predicting that your IA experience will not be significantly diminished.” Me, literally yesterday:
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The Internet Archive's lending library was so helpful for my research on the history of psyops. There are tons of primary sources like government documents, plus obscure, out-of-print books that can reveal a lot. This ruling against them is a blow to the public sphere. www.wired.com/story/intern...
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Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/i...
"We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books." 
-Chris Freeland, Director of Library Services
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"The amount of economic harm that the publishers are presently suffering as a result of the IA has not only never been quantified, it has not even been roughly attempted to be quantified." 🔗 "Barbarians at the Gates” by Howard Burton for : ideasroadshow.com/barbarians-a...
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We’re shifting from brat summer to BART autumn (you read that right) with this 1971 SF BART branding guideline book. More fun finds and stories in our August Best of the Archive Newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
BART logo design with a brat green overlay.
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If you weren’t able to join last week's GOVERNABLE SPACES
, you can watch it on the Internet Archive. LILLY IRANI () leads the discussion with author NATHAN SCHNEIDER (). 🔗 archive.org/details/gove...
Screenshot from a zoom conversation between Lilly Irani & Nathan Schneider.
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Why is it important to preserve 78rpm recordings? As audio preservation expert George Blood explains, "78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world." blog.archive.org/2024/08/26/v...
A selection of 78 rpm recordings.
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Today in the archives: bringing this ridiculous machine from the 1970s back to life in order to read files stored in an obscure and awkward format. Incredible that it still works 🤯 thanks to who had the manual scanned for us to refer to!
A dark monitor housed in a very large and dated case with knobs and buttons on it.
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LISTEN: New podcast episode from Politico Tech featuring Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, discussing the multi-institutional End of Term Archive project. "Meet the man archiving Biden's presidency" 🔗 www.politico.com/podcasts/tech
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Surprise: A big public library content vendor is overloading library catalogs with shitty ebooks, AI generated slurry, and right wing propaganda. Try doing any search on hoopla digital and the results you get are bad, bad, bad www.libraryfutures.net/post/hooplas...
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You won't want to miss this! Pepsiman, the sweet mascot for Pepsi in Japan during the ’90s, and all of his paraphernalia (games, ads, and even a mini CD) are all available on the Archive. Learn about this and more in our Best of the Archive Newsletter, shared every month: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Pepsiman video game character from Japan.
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Our popular book talk series with Authors Alliance starts back up in August—registration opening soon! 📣 We're looking for authors & books to fill out our schedule in late 2024 / early 2025. Learn more & reach out via our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/07/18/s...
Book talk themes with Authors Alliance:
Libraries & Literacy
Book Culture & the History of the Book
Internet Policy
Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights
Artificial Intelligence & its impact
Computing & Internet History
Supporting Democracies
Contact Chris Freeland - chrisfreeland@archive.org
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George Smart is on a mission to save mid-century modern houses. He believes the structures are artworks that deserve respect, but people miss their importance & how to preserve them. Smart relies on books & web archives from the Internet Archive in his work. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/07/15/s...
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THIS FRIDAY — Join us for Public Domain Night at the Internet Archive! 👀 We're screening 📽️ "D.O.A." (1949) starring Edmond O'Brien & Pamela Britton.⁠ 📅 July 19⁠ 🕡 7:00pm ⁠ 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/doa-screen...
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JUST POSTED: 🎵 New ways to search archived music news with Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: blog.archive.org/2024/07/10/n...
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“If Congress had not statutorily protected first sale, would library lending be legal?” 🤔 That’s one of 3 key questions librarian & legal scholar Michelle Wu breaks down from the recent oral argument in Hachette v. Internet Archive: www.libraryfutures.net/post/a-respo...
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With climate change posing a threat for island nations & their cultural heritage, preservation efforts are now more crucial than ever. Learn how our partnership with Aruba’s national library & archives is helping in this PBS NewsHour story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSL...
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Internet Archive saves my ass again with a math book that I wouldn't be able to find anywhere else.
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In the SF Bay Area this week? We're holding an *in-person* meetup at the HQ in San Francisco this Wednesday, July 10 5:30-9pm! Come by for dinner, drinks, + socializing, and hear about new projects participating at DWeb Camp this summer. www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-sf-me...
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You want your MTV? ⬇️
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Went to my history loans * 32% bought * 11% most second-hand, on my ToBuy list * 41% not available to buy or too expensive (200€!) * 2% Public Domain * 14% not interested (some not available) Don't ever tell me libraries harm publishers. EVER.
My two most recent buys:
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Fun fact: The Plant Seed Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, was founded in 1845 by a man named William Plant. It also had cool catalog art. Here’s one from 1892. Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery & Seed Trade Catalog Collection, National Agricultural Library, via ; archive.org/details/seed...
A very elaborate 1892 catalog cover, printed in vivid colors with a variety of type/lettering styles against a light beige background. The cover is bordered on the top, left and bottom by lush illustrations of a variety of vegetables and flowers — wheat, radishes, carrots, lettuces. I think a basket of apples. Also some gardening implements and a watering can. 



SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN, FARM & FIELD
ESTABLISHED 1845
 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
PLANT SEED COMPANY
ST LOUIS
612 & 614 N FOURTH ST.
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So what happened last Friday in court with Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers' lawsuit against our library? Check out updates in our new post: blog.archive.org/2024/07/01/w...
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Check out the DWeb Camp virtual preview THIS WEDNESDAY, July 3 ⤵️
Our virtual meetup next week will feature: 🌲 Billion Lee of CoFacts 🌲 Sinu of TLSNotary / @ethereum.bsky.social 🌲 Eric Harris-Braun of Holo 🌲 @kumavis.me of @metamask.io 🌲 Val Elefante of CCI's Sol Center Happening WED July 3 5pm PT (Asia-Pacific friendly time!) www.eventbrite.com/e/july-2024-...
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We’re fighting to restore access to more than 500,000 books in court on Friday. You can show your support in a number of ways - learn more: blog.archive.org/2024/06/26/w...
“It’s like losing the town library.”
Ryan
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Good morning Manhattan.
✊🏻 BattleForLibraries.com
A stack of posters on a sidewalk in New York, waiting to be installed. They read "Defend the Internet Archive. We need Digital Libraries. Let them own books. BattleForLibraries.com"
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Did you catch the story about the Wayback Machine on CBS News Sunday Morning? 🌞 David Pogue chatted with about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch: cbsnews.com/news/the-way...
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At its core, the reason publishers are going after the Internet Archive isn't that its actions have lost money for authors. It's that publishers want to delegitimise the concept of owning a digital copy of something.
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I fairly regularly need older/more obscure stuff that I can't immediately get through the libraries I have access to. This is especially frustrating when a digital version exists but is paywalled.
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Preparing my last seminar, I was very happy I could borrow a crucial title from The alternative would have been to buy it for 10% of my total pay from Abebooks and have it shipped around the globe Or not use it at all
More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
“I live in a very small town in the Portuguese countryside and this was my main source of information related to my job has an archaeologist.”
Joel S. C.
Gouveia, Portugal
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Please leave the internet archive alone, they are desperately trying to save our cultural knowledge from the digital maw. They are librarians. Go after profit obsessed publishers and big tech instead
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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️
👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
“I live in a very small town in the Portuguese countryside and this was my main source of information related to my job has an archaeologist.”
Joel S. C.
Gouveia, Portugal
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📚 Attention Readers & Researchers More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access.
👉 forms.gle/G2GXK6xwMZ3t...
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Starting in ~1 hour! 🌲 June 2024 DWeb Virtual Meetup on sustaining and measuring the impact of public goods. 🌲 Following the event, come join us in Gather Town for an informal hang out and chat with friends old and new! www.eventbrite.com/e/june-2024-...
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What if online platforms were designed with democracy in mind? GOVERNABLE SPACES presents projects doing just that. Learn about ambitious, Bay Area-based projects that enable ordinary users to co-govern their online lives. 📅 June 8 ⏰ 4pm PT 🎟️: lu.ma/governable-s...
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Our Monthly Giving Circle can access exclusive virtual events. Next up: Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, for a conversation around the Internet Archive & journalism! To access this event & other perks, join our Monthly Giving Circle: blog.archive.org/2024/06/03/j...
Webcast: Journalism and the Internet Archive with Mark Graham
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I uploaded to an educational computer game dev company document I've waited for for years: SUPERBOOTS Business Plan (1984) archive.org/details/supe... Superboots lab was at the Capital Children's Museum in D.C., sponsored by Atari. Its 1st (only?) program was PAINT! for Atari 8-bits.
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If only the DDoS attack we faced looked as intriguing as the viruses in our Malware Museum... Check out the collection, as featured in our Best of the Archive newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Rainbow-hued graphic from malware
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Yes, we're under a DDoS attack, but we're still rolling with our Public Domain Movie Night this Friday! Watch "Show People" starring Marion Davies. 🎬🍿 Come support and enjoy! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/marion-dav...
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.
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Interested in the effects of disinformation on democracy? Join our VIRTUAL
with BARBARA McQUADE, author of the NYT bestseller ATTACK FROM WITHIN. Co-hosted with Authors Alliance. 📅 June 6 ⏰ 10am PT / 1pm ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
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Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center: ❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible ❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link 🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
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📣 If you’re in the Bay Area this afternoon, come celebrate the 10th anniversary of Authors Alliance, featuring a keynote from Cory Doctorow! Tickets are still available 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/authorship...
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I'll never forget my dinner with Brewster Kahle (and other brilliant folks) at the Internet Archive Canada headquarters. I am so inspired.
Ian Linkletter and Brewster Kahle smiling and standing next to the Internet Archive Canada's servers.
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🌐 Ever wonder what happens to .gov websites before & after presidential elections? We archive them! Help our team preserve US government info by nominating sites today 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Screenshots of whitehouse.gov from Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump & Biden.
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our occasional reminder that pretty much every video game magazine ever has been scanned and is browsable on @archive.org . It's an incredible resource: archive.org/details/comp... archive.org/details/vide... archive.org/details/comp...
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Explore your dream destination (like the streets of Osaka pictured here) with our collection of Street Scenes from 160 cities worldwide, all from the comfort of home. Check out this month’s Best of the Archive newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
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When the Harkness Eye Institute moved after 90+ years, the fate of the library within was in question. Some materials moved, but not the large runs of bound, print journals. That's when our donations team sprang into action to help preserve these useful materials 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/05/06/e...
“I did not realize the Internet Archive would take a collection like this. People spent huge amounts of effort putting these works together. It would have been unfortunate to just throw it all away.”
Dr. Daniel Casper,
Columbia University professor emeritus
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NEXT WEEK: Join our chat between authors & 📚 In BIG FICTION, Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form & what it means to be an author. 📅 Thurs, May 9 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
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Tortoise has 175 shows going back to 1992 for your listening pleasure at
I just found out kind of by accident that a Tortoise/Sea & Cake show I saw thirty fucking years ago is just out there on the internet for me to listen to whenever I want. archive.org/details/Tort...
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Thanks to for the pointer to this excavation of Psyche Pscene, a late 60's early 70's independent zine published here in Chicago jessejarnow.com/2024/04/psyc...
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🗣️ Free range archivist Jason Scott takes Whisper, the open source speech recognition project, out for a spin on 5+ years worth of his weekly podcasts, preserved on archive.org ▶️ blog.archive.org/2024/04/28/t...
Sample transcript from Whisper
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In the Archive, embracing your inner child is always encouraged! Give it a try by parsing through this collection of Chuck E. Cheese merchandise from the 90s and early aughts. This and more in our April Best of the Archive Newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Chuck E. Cheese coupons
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Move over Mickey...Let's give a round of applause to Tigger, who also moved into the public domain this year, thanks to his debut in 1928's "The House at Pooh Corner" 📚🐯 Read, remix, and share for free! archive.org/details/the-...
Illustration of Winnie the Pooh meeting Tigger for the first time, from The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
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Because that's not the law in the US? In any case, it's not the libraries themselves that make Public Lending Right payments in the UK, the money comes from central government. web.archive.org/web/20230129...
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Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, Brewster Kahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/i...
Internet Archive logo in white on black.
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Please read this clear and important thread on how preposterous the arguments are against
and its important project of digitizing books for you and for posterity. Summary: there's no case of harm caused by the Archive's work. Thanks
Tomorrow, #InternetArchive will file their reply brief in the suit from major #publishers to end the right of IA and all #libraries to own and preserve spyware-free digital #books. Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask: Who is the real “Napster” here? A thread.
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Internet Archive's founder & digital librarian, Brewster Kahle, reflects on last week's move by the island nation of Aruba to endorse digital rights for memory institutions. Why is it so important for libraries to own, not lease, their collections? 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/04/18/a...
“The ‘Spotify for Books’ model is not the way we want our libraries to go.” Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
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Tomorrow,
will file their reply brief in the suit from major
to end the right of IA and all
to own and preserve spyware-free digital
. Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask: Who is the real “Napster” here? A thread.
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“Give them the opportunity to search for the truth.” That’s what the Prime Minister of Aruba, Evelyn Wever-Croes, said about the next generation of digital learners in a conversation yesterday with our founder, Brewster Kahle. Aruba is leading the way! blog.archive.org/2024/04/09/a...
Brewster Kahle talks with the Prime Minister of Aruba in her office.
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Aruba leads the way as the FIRST nation to sign a statement safeguarding the digital rights of memory organizations online. 🌐 This historic move sets a powerful precedent for protecting our digital heritage. Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/04/09/a...
From left: Aruba’s National Librarian, Astrid Britten (Director, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba), signs the statement protecting memory organizations online as Raymond Hernandez (Director, Archivo Nacional Aruba) and Brewster Kahle (Founder, Internet Archive) look on.
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Join us for a showing of "Charade," the Audrey Hepburn / Cary Grant classic that accidentally entered the public domain in the US upon its release because of a copyright notice omission. 📍 300 Funston,
📆 Friday, April 12 ⏰ Doors @ 6:30pm, film @ 7 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/audrey-hep...
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When we all went remote 4 years ago, our staff struggled to stay connected. After some trial & error, we landed on something we're still doing to this day—we hire musicians to perform before our weekly zoom staff meetings! And yes, they're archived: blog.archive.org/2024/04/01/e...
Essential Music Concerts from Home
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Have you reserved your seat for this week's book talk? Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing by Andrea I. Copland and Kathleen DeLaurenti Online Wed, Apr 3 10am PT / 1pm ET www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
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Learn how Forbes Library used Internet Archive's Community Webs program to help curate a more inclusive historical record about the history of Black lives in rural New England: blog.archive.org/2024/03/20/a...
A family in Hatfield, ca. 1889. L.H. Kingsley, photographer.
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If you've toured the Internet Archive with Brewster Kahle, there's always a stop to play "Prince of Persia" on our emulator. So you can imagine the fun when PoP game designer Jordan Mechner stopped by to talk about software preservation! Chat with Jordan tomorrow: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Jordan Mechner & Brewster Kahle play Prince of Persia.
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Don't worry if you missed the curtain call. 🎭 We've got you covered with 85 years of preserved playbills from Sumter Little Theatre, dating back to 1939. Check them out in this month's Best of the Archive newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Playbill detail for Sumter Little Theatre’s production of Anything Goes
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