Libraries matter. Access matters. After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember. tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: Is there anything else on these VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Commercials? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to ? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live tonight at 7pm EST on Twitch. twitch.tv/uncommonephe...

Did you know several issues of Factsheet Five are available over at the ? The corpus isn't complete & the process of cleaning and OCR'ing images can be slow/painful, but the hope is that this allows more folks to read & research 80s-90s zine culture. archive.org/search?query...

This World AIDS Day, we honor the voices and activism that shaped the global fight against HIV/AIDS. "Victory Deferred"—a defining history of the crisis by journalist John-Manuel Andriote—is now an open access edition, free for all to read on the Internet Archive: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/a...

Very much looking forward to this event. Great presenters, and 's book is maybe the best thing I've ever read about Open Access publishing.

Planning your week? 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph as they explore PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & how collective, scholar-led publishing can reshape open access. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. 🛍️ The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash. Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events. 📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac... #BlackFriday

They came for crowds, holiday energy & retail deals. #BlackFriday at Liberty Tree Mall, 1995—kids on the carousel as parents hustle & shop. 🛍️🎠 This 90s time capsule was preserved on the @InternetArchive by the original videographer. 📼 Watch the full tape ⤵️ archive.org/details/blac...

#Thanksgiving & football go hand in hand, and THE FRESHMAN (1925) shows the frenzy has been around for over a century. Harold Lloyd’s chaotic climactic game helped shape every underdog sports comedy that followed. Touchdown! 🏈 Watch the full #publicdomain classic ⤵️ archive.org/details/the-...

🏈🖥️ Ready to call the plays? In Football for Windows, created by an ex-college player, you step in as coach & run the game your way. It was once free to copy & play (with a $25 registration to unlock everything) — you can play it in-browser at the #InternetArchive ➡️ archive.org/details/FOOTFW

#Football on the menu today? 🏈 This #Thanksgiving, enjoy a charming home movie of two kids tossing the ball on a crisp autumn day! 🍂 🎞️ Full film features 1940s holidays, parades, & neighborhood celebrations. Watch it here ⤵️ archive.org/details/0005... #HomeMovies #Suburbia

The gridiron & #Thanksgiving have been paired for over a century. 🏈🦃 The sport’s inspired songs, stories & more. Take it to the end zone with vintage books, movies, computer games, videos, programs & magazine covers in this football collection on the #InternetArchive ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

Are your #Thanksgiving cooking plans half-baked? 🧑‍🍳 Don’t stew in your own juices—simmer down and take some time ⏲️ out to peruse these vintage manuals for slow cookers, blenders, cookware & ovens. Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️ archive.org/details/@ias...

I have my great grandma's (lots of lard!), and my grandma's! Stained, clippings tucked in, and yes, a rubber band.

Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures. 🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v... #Thanksgiving

While stars like Taylor Swift make headlines, fringe musicians navigate a system that prioritizes profit. Michael Menna & Anjali Vats unpack how copyright really works outside the mainstream on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/mus... 🧵 From our speakers👇

Michael Menna asks: does copyright or antitrust better protect musicians from exploitative label deals like 360 contracts? 📄 Read his paper ⤵️ digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/jipl/vol32/i...

Anjali Vats shows how Taylor Swift’s re-recordings reveal a strategic, artist-driven way to reclaim copyright, highlighting how power, privilege, and savvy shape the music industry. 📄 Read here ⤵️ www.anjalivats.com/wp-content/u...

📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

🌱 Curious about decentralized, open-source ag tech? Join the #DWeb Virtual Meetup to hear from innovators developing tools that strengthen small-farmer sovereignty & advance sustainable, community-driven food futures. 📅 Nov 26 🕙 10–11 AM PT 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1974935071...

The #InternetArchive welcomes Merrilee Proffitt as director of Democracy’s Library, US! With decades in digital libraries & open knowledge, she’ll expand free access to government research & boost transparency, equity & engagement. More ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/m...

Honored to see Mark Graham & the Wayback Machine get a shoutout from in 's “Thankful" 2025 roundup. We’re grateful to support journalists, researchers & fact-checkers everywhere. 🔗 poynter.org/commentary/2025/what-were-thankful-for-in-media-in-2025/

Erin Malone — author, design historian, and Chair of Interaction Design at CCA — discusses building Kodak’s first website in the mid-1990s and gives a look at that site, now preserved in the #WaybackMachine. 📝 More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/20/v... #Wayback 1T #WebHistory #WaybackMachine

Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history. Pay your respects ⤵️ archive.org/details/in-m... #Wayback1T

🧵 The Winged Monkeys in Baum’s Oz weren’t followers of the Wicked Witch – they were compelled by the magical Golden Cap. Whoever wore it could summon them three times. The Wicked Witch used it first, then Dorothy. 🐒🪽More Oz in the #publicdomain ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t... #Oz #Wicked

The Winged Monkeys weren’t evil, but mischievous. Long cursed into the service of whoever wore the Golden Cap, they only obeyed the commands given. Glinda the Good Witch later gave them three final tasks, then gave the cap to their King, freeing them forever from the spell.

I appreciate it and here is a window into what I do with it: I did a big rewrite of an article about a species of plant called meadow penstemon. More to be done one it, but almost all the books I reference are in the archive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstem...

I need you all to know that a ton of folks put a HEROIC amount of effort into keeping Archive going this week

🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚 🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t... #PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked

📢 Don't miss today's #booktalk with Cory Doctorow on his new book ENSHITTIFICATION. Join us & Authors Alliance to learn why the internet broke & how we can fix it. 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451... #enshittification

We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.

!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement! * Librarians’ Group (IUALG) * Boston Library Consortium * 🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t... 🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org

Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.

The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed. We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.

🌈 Long before rainbows, there were longing laments in Oz. Check out this 1913 sound recording of a song from the stage musical, THE TIK-TOK MAN OF OZ.🎧 Learn more about Oz in the #publicdomain ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t... #Oz #Wicked

Scanned and uploaded to : Part of a 1950s series on environmental conservation, this #filmstrip talks about bodies of water and what can happen if the ecology gets out of balance. archive.org/details/unco...

How do power, access & inequity shape who benefits from the music economy? ⚖️ In MUSIC AND COPYRIGHT IN THE ERA OF TAYLOR SWIFT, Michael Menna & Anjali Vats explore copyright’s ideals vs. realities on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/mus... #taylorswift

Jean Armour Polly, aka Net-mom, celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage, highlighting the ephemerality of websites, the need to preserve digital culture, & the librarians & archivists who make that possible. More ⬇️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/v... #Wayback1T

The internet does not have to stay broken. Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION walks through how we reached this point & what steps can move us toward a healthier digital world. 📆 Fri Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...

The classic Oz books are great fun (especially the sequels), anyone with a bit of spare time and a penchant for whimsy should burn through them. We have a set of all but one of the ones written by L Frank Baum, and the one we did not have, I read on Internet Archive! They truly do essential work.

97 years ago today, Steamboat Willie paddled onto the screen. In 2024, this iconic cartoon entered the public domain, opening new possibilities for sharing, remixing & reimagining. Follow us for Public Domain Day 2026 announcements! 👀 Full cartoon ➡️ archive.org/details/stea... #OTD #PublicDomain

The Internet Archive’s microfiche digitization #livestream gives you real-time preservation work plus mellow lo-fi vibes — the chillest way to watch history get saved. Our second shift is live now (4 PM–Midnight PT). 📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY... #LiveNow #Preservation #LiveStream

Hearing a lot about Oz this week? 🧙🏼‍♀️ Did you know many of the original Oz books & early media are in the public domain? Explore these classic works & how you can access them in our blog! 📖 Learn more ⬇️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t... #PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum

From : Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Planning your week? Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION is your chance to learn who broke the internet & how we can fix it. The concept was the 2023 Word of the Year & an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. 📆 Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PST 📍 Online www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...

🧵 UC Berkeley’s California Local Government Documents Collection, hosted by Internet Archive, makes local planning treasures available to all. Example: the 1990 Loyola Corners Neighborhood Commercial Center Specific Plan. Learn More ⤵️ igs.berkeley.edu/news/spotlig...

Specific plans let cities tailor design, circulation, & development standards to the needs of a defined area. Discover additional California city and county-specific plans through the California Local Government Documents Collection on the Internet Archive ⤵️ archive.org/details/igsc...

Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION builds on his long career as a science fiction author, activist & journalist. His work shows how power shapes our digital lives. Join us! 📆 Friday, Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...

Yeah, hi5 was a thing in Thailand. By 2009 when me and my friends were in university, many moved over to Facebook.

Hi5 was *extremely* popular in Jamaica before Facebook managed to get its foothold in around 2009. It's a core memory from my time in 7th and 8th grade. My page probably got deleted for inactivity after everyone I knew left, but if it still exists, I'll be very surprised.

"A truly historic accomplishment," says NPR ( ) President & CEO Katherine Maher: “1 trillion web pages. That’s 1 trillion artifacts & snapshots of our interconnected world.” More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/14/v... #Wayback1T

Hi5 was an early social platform, launched in 2003. Americans mostly ignored it. Big in Latin America & Southeast Asia with tens of millions of users at its peak, today it’s mostly social games & dating. Check out your favorite websites with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org 🧵 #Wayback1T

The Wayback Machine lets you travel back in web-time—like this 2006 Hi5 page for rapper & singer Shawnna. See how artists & fans flaunted their style & made their mark on early social networks. It's there on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/20060701...

Counting down to Public Domain Day 2026 The New Classics Collective turned Fire!!, a 1926 Harlem magazine for young Black artists, into a play at Philadelphia’s Quintessence Theatre, featuring works by Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston. via @everybodyslibraries.com@everybodyslibraries.com #books

Today’s web is fragmented, paywalled & dominated by a few powerful platforms. Some of the internet’s founders & current leaders discuss how it can still be saved: “a game with many winners.” More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/10/i... #Wayback1T

🌄 From the Cleveland Museum of Art collection, these oil paintings capture autumn’s glow — forest paths, sunlit hills, & mountains brushed with color. First is View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, NY, After a Storm, 1838 by Thomas Cole. 🧵 More ➡️ archive.org/details/clev...

Continuing the celebration of autumn’s beauty from the Cleveland Museum of Art collection: 🍂 Autumn Scene in the Adirondacks, 1877 by William Hart 🍂 Autumn in the Catskills, 1873 by Jervis McEntee 🍂 The Golden Hour, 1865 by Samuel Palmer Each captures the glow & serene atmosphere of the season.

🧵 Vancouver Public Library & have been honoured by the City of Vancouver for their innovative digitization project, making rare & historical British Columbia materials accessible online for future generations. 🏆📚🇨🇦 Learn more ⤵️ internetarchivecanada.org/2025/11/12/v...

VPL’s “Virtual Vault” uses Internet Archive Canada’s tech and controlled digital lending to share 3,000+ titles, from early BC history to rare literary works, while respecting copyright and authors’ rights. Expanding access and protecting heritage, together. 🌐📖

What could a new court ruling mean for the future of Wikipedia? Authors Alliance unpacks the surprising implications of the latest decision in Authors Guild v. OpenAI ⬇️ authorsalliance.substack.com/p/copyright-...

The illustration comes from the article: authorsalliance.substack.com/p/copyright-...

🎉🎉💚 internetarchivecanada.org/2025/11/12/v...

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocols that built the Internet, celebrates the Internet Archive reaching 1 trillion pages & reflects on why preserving our digital history matters for generations to come. More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/12/v... #Wayback1T

🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨 #CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next. 📆 Fri Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

🌐 THE WEB WE’VE BUILT is a cinematic journey through our shared digital history & preserved pages in the Wayback Machine. archive.org/details/the-... Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/11/l... #Wayback1T

From the 1st web page to today’s sprawling internet, the web has reshaped how we live. 🌐 Hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast discuss the web’s rapid growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...

Autumn has arrived. 🍂 Listen to Robert Frost’s "Gathering Leaves" — a quiet meditation on raking, repetition, and the season’s small joys. 🍁 For more, hear Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, read by LibriVox volunteers. 🎧 archive.org/details/newh... #poetry

Legendary musician & activist Peter Gabriel celebrates the Internet Archive hitting 1 trillion pages & reflects on its role in preserving humanity’s memory. More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/10/v... #Wayback1T

Yesterday was Bram Stoker’s 178th birthday! 🎂 Author of THE LADY OF THE SHROUD, THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, and, of course, the iconic DRACULA. 🧛 Read the 1899 public-domain edition here ⤵️ archive.org/details/drac...

🎉 At our 1 trillion-page celebration, Senator honored the Internet Archive with a California Senate Certificate of Recognition for the Archive's “remarkable innovation and leadership.” More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c... #Wayback1T

Microfiche in the digital age 📄💻 Visitors at the Physical Archive tour last month saw how microfiche is preserved digitally. You can, too! Watch the #livestream, 7:30 AM–Midnight PT, scanning & preserving public records in real time — all to mellow #lofi vibes. 📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY...

🎉 Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web & recipient of the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award. Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy: blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c... #Wayback1T

On Oct. 21, nearly 350 people visited the Physical Archive to see the collection & learn how the #InternetArchive processes donated materials for access & preservation. 🧵 Full story ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/29/a... #Wayback1T

9️⃣ Visitors were amazed by the scale & impact of the facility. From books, newspapers & photos to trusted “anti-deep fake” resources, the collections inspire new ways to learn, research & teach.

🔟 From rare books to microfiche to music & film, every format tells a story. The Physical Archive is where the past finds a future. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/29/a...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, & @BrewsterKahle chat with Wired’s on the Future Knowledge #podcast about the web’s rise, its impact, & why preserving it is vital for cultural history. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...

A landmark moment. Supervisor Connie Chan led a unanimous San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution honoring the #InternetArchive & establishing Internet Archive Day. archive.org/embed/establ... 🧵 More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/03/s... #Wayback1T

4️⃣ 🏛️ Earlier, supporters rallied on the steps of City Hall. Speakers included Supervisor Connie Chan, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, San Francisco City Librarian Michael Lambert, & 2024 Internet Archive artist-in-residence Swilk.

5️⃣ 🌐 1 trillion pages saved, a city that celebrates knowledge, & a shared mission to build & preserve a digital library for all, today & tomorrow. Full story on our blog ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/03/s...

h/t to , who shared this tidbit during her remarks at our celebration: archive.org/details/the-...

📧 Years before Google, “Gmail” was a fan email service on Garfield․com; perfect for anyone who hates Mondays. It vanished like lasagne into Garfield's belly, but pawprints remain on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/20000815... 🧵 #Wayback1T #WebHistory

🐈 By May 2001, Garfield’s Gmail was replaced by a free service at @e-garfield․com via Everyone․net. Google didn’t adopt the Gmail name until April 2004 — and there’s no evidence they got the idea or name from Garfield․com. But it's safe to say Garfield beat them to the inbox. #InternetHistory

Fiery, fiendish fun! 🔥😈 That's HELL'S BELLS (1929), where devils & demons dance & frolic in a chaotic underworld in classic Silly Symphonies style. 🎶 Watch the full short & more in our #SpookySeason collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ste...

🍂 As #spookyseason settles & autumn’s shadows grow long, we return to THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW — Irving’s haunting mix of fall’s golden calm & sudden terror. 👻🪦 🔊 Make sure sound is on! More vintage frights ⬇️ archive.org/details/@ste... #Librivox