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WEBINAR TOMORROW! 🌐 Web archives preserve a record of the online world, but also gaps & disappearances. CARTA Presents: "DIGITAL GHOSTS," visualising web archive fragility. Dr. Andrea Kocsis shares works on link decay & vanishing music. 📅 Weds. Oct. 7 🕗 8 AM PT 🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Photo of an illuminated blue display screen showing the words "Digital Ghosts" in large white text over a glitchy, pixelated digital pattern, with a "Menace" sign visible on a glass panel in the foreground.

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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey Vancouver 👋 join us on Oct 27, 5:30-8:30pm at our Internet Archive Canada building. We're introducing our first-ever AI Builders Fellows + Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle is stopping by to talk about the future of the open internet. RSVP: luma.com/58wdnop2

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Open By Design: Tools for Participation - An Evening with Internet Archive Canada · Luma

Internet Archive Canada for Open by Design - Tools for Participation. Join us as we explore how we can build a more open and participatory digital future, and…

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/10/2026

The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse

Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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CRKN - RCDR @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📖 Do you have a fascinating collection in your library that would benefit from digitization, or that would be a great fit for Canadiana? Apply to CRKN’s Member Digitization Projects initiative this fall! Applications are open until November 27. Learn more at our website: bit.ly/4x94zdR

The words "Apply to the Member Digitization Projects Initiative. Deadline: November 27, 2026" appear over images of historical documents.

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌎Join librarians and library publishers from Canada, Australia and Aotearoa NZ for a conversation on library publishing, OJS and community-owned scholarly infrastructure @pkp.sfu.ca @carl-abrc.bsky.social Details and registration caul.edu.au/event/?id=117

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026

You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/09/2026

Who gets to own what we create? In WHO OWNS KNOWLEDGE, host Lisa Petrides talks with Internet Archive Senior Policy Counsel Lila Bailey about knowledge as a shared cultural commons & knowledge controlled through copyright, licensing, and corporate platforms. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/09/2026

🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do they go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these and more are digitized at the Physical Archive tour! 📆 Tues, Oct 20 🕕 6–8 PM 📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

Maeve Iwasaki demonstrates microfiche digitization at the Internet Archive's physical archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.

Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with pallets visible inside.

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IFLA @ifla.org · 24/09/2026

Preserving and sharing knowledge is connected with preparing for an uncertain future, and allowing people to do that in unexpected ways encourages innovation. Listen to our Futures Club session with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive: tr.ee/sbwuiM

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/09/2026

📚 What happens when a library doesn’t just preserve knowledge, but gives people the tools to use it? Find out at Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation, an IN-PERSON Internet Archive event. 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902...

Event graphic for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm–10pm, at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco. On cream graph paper, a schematic line drawing of a classical library building (columns and pediment) is rendered in overlapping pink, blue, yellow, and orange lines with dot joints, beside bold black and pink text.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/09/2026

Local and state government records help communities understand their history and participate in public life. But digital records can be hard to preserve and access. The Internet Archive’s new ATLAS program will help address that. Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/09/10/a... 🧵

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/09/2026

🌐 The internet doesn’t remember everything. CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” looks at how creative visualization can make online decay visible, and what disappearance means for cultural memory. Oct. 7, 8 AM PT 🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Photo of a panel discussion at a "Digital Ghosts" event. Four panelists sit in red and gray chairs against a wall with projected text reading "Digital Ghosts" and "Dorsey, Kaufmann & Feeling Data." A large seated audience fills the foreground, with blue lighting throughout the gallery-like space.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/09/2026

“Fix the Wayback Machine!” We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/a...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/09/2026

🌐 Celebrate the Wayback Machine & the many other Internet Archive tools that help people preserve, explore, share & build knowledge together! Join us IN PERSON for Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation! 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902... 🧵

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 09/09/2026

🌐 Web archives are never complete. What happens when the gaps become the story? Dr. Andrea Kocsis (U. Edinburgh) explores this in CARTA's "Digital Ghosts" webinar, Oct. 7, 8 AM PT; five works on link decay, disappearing music & the web's fragility. ✍️ Register today: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How @archive.org pulled together the BET Digital collecrion and made it usable: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026

If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art framing the edges. Bold black text reads "Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears." A yellow ">" chevron tagline at the bottom reads "tools you can use."

Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage with its search bar, page thumbnails, and three tool options — Subscription Service, Collection Search, and Save Page Now — with the Save Page Now box circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building in the lower right. Bold black text reads "Save a page that matters today."

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just Released: Summit on Local News #Preservation Report (via @archive.org) Direct to Report archive.org/details/loca... Direct to Blog Post blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/l... #media #localnews

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/08/2026

The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things. You can: 🔖 Save something before it disappears. 🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed. ✍️ Contribute to a collection. 🤝 Connect with people doing preservation. SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... 🧵

Poster reading "Save something before it disappears," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. A yellow line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

Poster reading "Discover something you didn't know existed," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. A blue line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

Poster reading "Improve or contribute to a collection," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. A red line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

Poster reading "Connect with people doing the work of preservation," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. An olive-green line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 20/08/2026

📚🎵🎞️ Go behind the scenes at the Physical Archive! Join us IN PERSON Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6–8 PM in Richmond, CA, for a special tour of the preserved collections and learn how materials move from donation & preservation to digitization & access. Sign up ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/08/2026

💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it’s preserved. In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi & Dave Hansen discuss how communities use fair use to make cultural collections more accessible. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/rec... 🧵

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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🚀 Applications are opening for the AI Builders Fellowship! Internet Archive Canada and BC + AI are offering a $5,000 fellowship for builders, researchers, artists, and developers to create something new from one of Canada's largest public archives. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/08/01/i...

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Internet Archive Canada and BC + AI Launch the AI Builders Fellowship – Internet Archive Canada

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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Public archives deserve to be used—not just preserved. Internet Archive Canada is partnering with BC + AI to launch Builders Fellowship: a $5,000 opportunity to build something using more than 22 million scanned pages of Canadian government publications. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/08/01/i...

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Internet Archive Canada and BC + AI Launch the AI Builders Fellowship – Internet Archive Canada

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

👉️️ Tue Aug 11 → 7pm • in-person & online Producer @danielbekerman.bsky.social (The VVitch, The Apprentice) shares why he's building a worker-owned co-op streaming platform, changing the medium before the message gets bleaker! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

Event graphic for Civic Tech Toronto Meetup #555, Tuesday August 11th at 7pm, in person and online. Speaker Daniel Bekerman presents "It's time to change the Mediums or the Messages will keep getting bleaker." Photo of Daniel, a smiling man with a greying beard and aviator sunglasses wearing a light blue collared shirt, seated in a car. Blue-to-yellow gradient background.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/07/2026

Free speech matters. So does verifying what's true. Without a stable historical record, accountability suffers. A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, explores why. 📖 Read or download ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵

Greenish-black graphic quoting Michael Menna and Lila Bailey, in The Political Librarian, with the quote "The entire project of history depends on this process, which means that it depends on the ability to keep and transmit information across time.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/07/2026

📖 Some folktales are preserved word for word. 🗣️ Others adapt to help communities make sense of the present. 🌍 In this Future Knowledge episode, scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs explore African storytelling and how culture is preserved. 🎧 Listen ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

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DWeb @getdweb.net · 21/07/2026

✨ Looking for more DWeb camping? ✨ Co-Adapt. Co-Create. Co-Here. Six days left to get last-minute tickets for DWeb Camp Cascadia, by @dwebyvr.org 💕 Salt Spring Island, Canada, Jul 30 - Aug 3. A few shots from last year:

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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What does 30 years of the Canadian web look like? Now you can explore it yourself. @internetarchivecanada's new kiosk at @vpl.ca lets visitors navigate 100,000 archived .ca sites through a game-like interface. Because digital memory should be for everyone. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/06/19/e...

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Explore 30 Years of the Canadian Web at Vancouver Public Library – Internet Archive Canada

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/07/2026

🌐 The web changes daily. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️ 38% of URLs that existed 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive's @mark.bsky.social & Chris Freeland on why preserving the web matters, via @currentaffairs.bsky.social. 🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil...

Promotional graphic for the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Mark Graham and Chris Freeland, both wearing glasses, are pictured against a background of burning books. The Current Affairs masthead appears at the top in white serif type on black.

White card with centered black serif text reading: "From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive's Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it." The Current Affairs name appears below in pink, followed by a decorative flourish.

Opening paragraph of the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Large decorative W begins the text, which describes how websites go dark, governments purge public records, and streaming platforms remove films and music. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is introduced as a tool preserving snapshots of a constantly rewritten web.

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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy Canada Day! 🍁 Over one million items — 550 years of Canadian history, in ~90 languages — are free to explore at archive.org/details/toronto. Parliamentary debates, opera libretti, 15th-century incunabula, and more, built by libraries across Canada. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/07/01/w...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/06/2026

📣 Librarians! Attending #ALAAC26 this weekend? 📚 Stop by Booth 2130 with our literacy partner, Better Worlds Books 📖, to talk to us and snag a sweet Wayback Machine sticker! See you there!

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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

2026 marks 30 years of web archiving — and @internetarchivecanada is celebrating with a public kiosk at @vancouverlibrary.bsky.social where visitors can browse 100,000 archived Canadian websites using a game controller. Digital memory, made accessible. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/06/19/e...

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Explore 30 Years of the Canadian Web at Vancouver Public Library – Internet Archive Canada

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/06/2026

📣 TOMORROW! 📣 There’s still time to join us for THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD, a LIVE #FutureKnowledge #podcast conversation on one of the defining information challenges of our time. 📅 Tues, Jun 23 🕙 10AM PT 📍ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fight-... @merrileeiam.bsky.social

Promotional banner for "The Fight for the Public Record," a Future Knowledge podcast live recording on June 23rd, 10am PT / 1pm ET, online. Features headshots of guests Merrilee Proffitt, James Jacobs, and Christopher Marcum alongside the Future Knowledge podcast cover art and Internet Archive and Authors Alliance logos.

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Antoine @ant.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Amsterdam, June 25 Internet Archive Europe is hosting two events: Borrel social, RSVP - o.lu.ma/URS6cNpSn9 And a discussion with Mozilla.ai running open source agents on your terms. RSVP - o.lu.ma/3tXIXyLIGP

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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 09/06/2026

Today is International Archives Day. As publishers block the Wayback Machine over AI concerns, 250+ journalists are urging them to reconsider. Preserving the public record matters. www.internetarchive.eu/2026/06/09/t... Sign: savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders #ArchivesForJustice

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The Wayback Machine holds 30 years of the web. News publishers are blocking it. - Internet Archive Europe

International Archives Day falls today, Tuesday 9 June. The theme for this year's International Archives Week is #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory, and Futures. The timing is pointed. As reported by...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/06/2026

🧵1️⃣/4️⃣ The Internet Archive helped uncover a 100-year conservation mystery. Researchers discovered why some bowhead whale populations are recovering from centuries of commercial whaling using Arctic whaling logbooks preserved via the Internet Archive. Read more: theconversation.com/centuries-ol...

An aerial view of a bowhead whale swimming near sea ice. By the time bowhead whaling was abandoned around 1914, there were likely fewer than 4,000 left. (Vicki Beaver/Alaska Fisheries Science Center)

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Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My presentation on Democracy's Library at the @archive.org from the Spring @cni-org.bsky.social meeting is now available! If you want to learn more about my work, I'm the first 15 minutes of this recording. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--u...

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Sustaining the Public Record: Collaborative Stewardship of Government Information and Research Data

YouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/06/2026

Many publishers rely on archived journalism for accountability & research, yet some are blocking the Wayback Machine from preserving it! 📝 Sign the open letter calling on these organizations to stop blocking web archiving & protect access to the public record ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/06/2026

❤️ Love the Wayback Machine? Some publishers and news organizations are blocking it from archiving journalism—cutting off the public record & future accountability. Want them to stop? ✍️ Sign the open letter to support preserving journalism in the Wayback Machine ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/06/2026

🧵1/3 🎮 What if cultural history disappears because no one is allowed to preserve it? Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, reflects on the fragility of games, media, and cultural memory in his essay in VANISHING CULTURE, from the #InternetArchive. Read it here: archive.org/details/vani...

Dark green graphic quoting Jordan Mechner, Game Designer, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the question "Why is it important to preserve gaming history?" and the quote "Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception."

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Library and Archives Canada @library-archives.canada.ca · 28/05/2026

The Price McIntosh Bursary offers up to $5,000 to support Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities who wish to pursue studies in fields related to libraries and archives! To apply: library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/05/2026

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 16/05/2026

ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards. I can bring them back, but I can offer you fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/05/2026

🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 Read Mark's letter ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a... @mark.bsky.social #WaybackMachine

Screenshot of the opening of Mark Graham's letter, thanking journalists for their support and noting the Wayback Machine's thirty-year role in preserving over one trillion web pages for the public record.

Screenshot of a section of Mark Graham's letter citing Marketplace Tech reporting that publishers blocking the Wayback Machine appear to be acting on AI concerns rather than evidence of actual misuse.

Screenshot of the closing of Mark Graham's letter, asserting that preserving the public record is essential infrastructure for democracy, and signed by Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive.

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