"We aren’t just fighting for libraries, we are fighting for our humanity." -Supervisor Connie Chan, recipient of the 2023 Internet Archive Hero Award, for authoring & unanimously passing a resolution supporting the digital rights of all libraries. blog.archive.org/2023/10/19/int…

The sound of counter-history: some of the servers at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Everyday they add billions of pages and links, many of which authoritarian states later delete and censor. I went there with Li Sipan and met Mark Graham who showed us around. 1/

Sanjeet Mann is a librarian on a mission. Working at California State University, San Bernardino, Mann helps computer science & business students better understand the cultural roots of new technologies using the The Wayback Machine. ▶️ blog.archive.org/2023/11/06/usi…

Journalist and Bellingcat tech volunteer Justin Clark has developed a tool that helps researchers side step Google Analytics changes that have made tracking when multiple websites are run by a single user or entity harder. Read about the tool here: bellingcat.com/resources/2024…

Most of the site is probably well archived. One could check all their archived sitemaps to get an idea of how many URLs were published (it's a lot) and check those individually. web.archive.org/web/2024013020… (late #WebArchiveWednesday; cc Thomas Maxwell, Eileen Clancy)

Barry Schwartz Gaston Riera. 🤘 Hey, catching up. Yes, it's been removed. I know, it's sad. I'm sad too. It's one of our oldest features. But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to

Do you use the The Wayback Machine to explore web archives? We want to hear your story! 🌐🔗 Whether it's preserving a cherished memory, aiding in research or sparking a meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you 👉 forms.gle/5DhDqNTLqxY41K…

Did you catch the story about the The Wayback Machine on CBS Sunday Morning 🌞? David Pogue chatted with Brewster Kahle about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch now cbsnews.com/news/the-wayba… 🔗🧵

David Samuel's powerful use of the The Wayback Machine to help become an American citizen was originally featured on our blog last year. Learn more about David & how he used web archives in his immigration journey: blog.archive.org/2023/06/26/can…

Did you catch Brewster Kahle playing Jordan Mechner's gaming classic, Prince of Persia? Yes, we preserve software! 🕹️ You can play Prince of Persia right now in your browser: archive.org/details/msdos_…

If you're new to the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, here's our response to the RIAA lawsuit against our preservation of obsolete media: blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/int…

The publishers' lawsuit heads to court this Fri, June 28. At stake: access to more than 500,000 books that publishers have removed from our library. 21,000+ people have signed our open letter to the publishers, asking them to restore access. Learn more ⤵️ change.org/LetReadersRead

We hope you enjoyed the CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 segment! 🌞 If you're new to our library, sign up for a library card today: archive.org/account/signup /🧵

The publishers’ lawsuit against our library is featured in the latest episode of “Why Is This Happening?” Listen in as Brewster Kahle talks with Chris Hayes & Kyle K. Courtney about the lawsuit & what it means for libraries & their patrons in the digital age. 🔗

Have you heard the origin story of the Internet Archive & the The Wayback Machine? Listen in as Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive’s founder & digital librarian, describes why he set out to build a modern-day library of Alexandria. #WITHpod #LetReadersRead 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/07/02/lis…

JUST POSTED: 🎵 New ways to search archived music news with Internet Archive's The Wayback Machine: blog.archive.org/2024/07/10/new… #MTVNews #CMTNews

Team Wayback Machine Internet Archive welcomes help from people who might help us improve our services. We are interested those with JavaScript, HTML, CSS experience as well Python, UX/UI skills. Researchers, writers and people with AI chops are also welcomed.  DMs are open

Since corporations are bad archivists (see: MTV News 🕳️), where do journalists turn to preserve their own work? First stop: The Internet Archive's The Wayback Machine. And then? Well, it gets complicated, as Hanaa’ Tameez highlights for Nieman Lab 👉 niemanlab.org/2024/07/to-pre…

Natural language search engine Ask Jeeves was rebranded as Ask in 2006. Here are the Wayback Machine's first and latest captures of it. What sites should we share next? Use the @WaybackMachine to look up your faves: web.archive.org #90s #90snostalgia #webdesign

🎧 The Wayback Machine & #MTVNews on KJZZ Phoenix: "We work diligently to archive large swaths of the public web. In particular, with regard to the MTV News site, we have been archiving that probably since its inception." - Mark Graham #VanishingCulture kjzz.org/kjzz-news/2024…