Hola LindyMan! Yep - many people rely on the Internet Archive. I helped throw their annual event last year, and collected these videos from people of various backgrounds talking about how they use the Archive. Brewster Kahle would be the first person to want many copies in

Why is the 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
🔗⤵️ pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…

In May 01996 the Internet Archive began its work of preserving the web for future generations.

Watch Internet Archive founder & Digital Librarian Brewster Kahle discuss the archive's mission of 'Universal Access to All Knowledge' in his Long Now Talk: hubs.ly/Q02wTqLh0

🌐 Ever wonder what happens to .gov websites before & after presidential elections? We archive them!

Help the End of Term Archive team preserve US government info by nominating sites today 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end… #EOTArchive

the most insufferable person you know has this tab open right now

Branding consultant needed? Official title of this journal :

'Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America'

:) got any other strange magazine/journal titles?

Packing up 30 years worth of home movies I’ve collected from around the US & the world to send to the Rick Prelinger W6XBE collection & Internet Archive for preservation via Filecoin. 6 boxes en route!

InterLibrary loan lives!

Record numbers are getting articles and chapters through this reliable free method from the Internet Archive.

The long tail holdings are needed!

384 libraries are now getting docs through one system.

Go Internet Archive go #ILL

Digitizing Aruba's History, Culture & Heritage and putting it all online for free.

A bold first by a nation (albeit a small one). Hopefully other nations see the benefits of sharing culture widely

go aruba, go Internet Archive

(6 minutes youtube)

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🎶 Ya-hooo-oo! 🤠 We had the incredible Wylie Gustafson, the master behind the iconic late 90's Yahoo yodel, join our staff meeting on Monday!

Looking for Australian stats? Australia's national statistical agency provides trusted official statistics on a wide range of economic, social, population and environmental matters, now with >20k publications preserved & accessible at Internet Archive! ⬇️

This is an important point about Internet Archive's lending library that is often misunderstood - it was in operation for 10 years before the publishers filed their lawsuit.

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/aru…

Important 🧵 about the lawsuit against our library 👇

At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We do this so that everyone, everywhere has access to a great research library. #digitization #preservation #access

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/aru… #LibraryDigitalRights #Aruba

Aruba slave records, in handwriting, but full text searchable based on great work by National Library of Aruba and others, with the Internet Archive

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