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archive.org @archive.org · 3h
What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵
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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archive.org @archive.org · 28/09/2026
🎨 “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” began as an experiment in making the internet’s disappearing traces visible. See that work come to life in this CARTA webinar with Dr. Andrea Kocsis. 📅 Weds. Oct. 7 🕗 8 AM PT 📍VIRTUAL 🎟️ 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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archive.org @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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archive.org @archive.org · 26/09/2026
🌁 San Francisco gets tangled in murder, deception, and a missing statuette in this LibriVox recording of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 public domain classic, THE MALTESE FALCON. 🕵️‍♂️ Follow the trail to the full audiobook 👇 archive.org/details/libr... 🧵
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archive.org @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...
Podcast cover art for "Educating to Be Human," with the title shown in three colorful speech-bubble logos (orange, blue, and pink). Below is a headshot of a smiling person with blonde wavy hair, wearing a black blazer, standing outdoors against a blurred green and brick background, with white text reading "with Lila Bailey."
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archive.org @archive.org · 25/09/2026
🤘🌐 “Everybody! Everybody!” Homestar Runner has barely changed! Launched in 2000, the beloved web cartoon site has kept its decidedly retro look, so today’s homepage could easily be mistaken for a page from the Flash era. Explore web history with the Wayback Machine ➡️ web.archive.org
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "HOMESTARRUNNER.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Homestar Runner web page from October 15, 2000, and September 13, 2026.
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archive.org @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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archive.org @archive.org · 24/09/2026
The Internet Archive building is 103, but it still looks like it did in 1923. 🏛️ Built as the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, the Internet Archive purchased it in 2009. Same building, different mission. 📚 See more at Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon ⤵️ richmondsunsetnews.com?s=then+and+now
Screenshot of the Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon website, dated Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026, showing its masthead with a Golden Gate Bridge banner photo and navigation menu, above a "Then and Now" article titled "Clement Street and Funston Avenue." The article shows two side-by-side photos: on the left, a black-and-white 1930 photo of the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist and Reading Room, a Classical Revival building built in 1923 by architect Carl Werner; on the right, a color 2020s photo of the same building, captioned as now home to the Internet Archive, which purchased it in 2009.
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archive.org @archive.org · 24/09/2026
On the Future Knowledge #podcast episode OPEN FOR WHOM?, Lisa Petrides of ISKME shares why open access to knowledge is about equalizing access, advancing discovery & treating knowledge as a public good. 📚 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ope... 🧵
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archive.org @archive.org · 22/09/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain AUTUMN (1930)! 🍂🪾🌾🌰🥮 This 3rd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies 🎶 cycle was released in February, but the #AutumnEquinox is the time to enjoy it. 👀 Watch the full fall 🍁 short ⤵️ archive.org/details/autu... #FallEquinox #SeptemberEquinox #Disney #Animation
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archive.org @archive.org · 22/09/2026
Care work is often invisible and undervalued, leaving history at risk of disappearing. Amanda Gray Rendón examines how social media can preserve caregiving work and the communities that support it in VANISHING CULTURE. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Quote tile with an orange background and greenish-black text. Headline reads: "Can we archive a history that is designed to be hidden?" Quote below reads: "The invisible, and at times isolating, nature of care work contributes to the precarity of archiving women's care labor history." Attributed to Amanda Gray Rendon, Researcher. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.
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archive.org @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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archive.org @archive.org · 21/09/2026
“Digital ghosts” are traces of online life that evolve, disappear or behave unpredictably. The webinar, CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS,” explores how visual design can reveal patterns of digital disappearance & how cultural memory is shaped. Weds, 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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archive.org @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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archive.org @archive.org · 19/09/2026
📖 There’s still time to support the Internet Archive and Better World Books “For the Love of Books” campaign! 📖 By donating to the Internet Archive through October 31, you'll support literacy and preservation. Join Us: donate.archive.org/campaign/838...
Internet Archive logo beside the Better World Books logo, a blue-to-green winged book icon above the text "Better World Books," on a mustard-yellow background.
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archive.org @archive.org · 18/09/2026
Local news preservation takes ongoing collaboration. 📰 The Internet Archive’s National Summit on Local News Preservation brought journalists, librarians, archivists, and researchers together to develop recommendations for preserving local news. Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/l... 🧵
Logo graphic on a pale blue-white background. Bold black text reads "TODAY'S NEWS" on the first line and "NEWS" on the second, with three yellow chevron arrows pointing right beside the text. Below, in a thin black monospace font, is the tagline "for tomorrow."
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archive.org @archive.org · 17/09/2026
🏛️ Once a year, the Physical Archive opens its doors for a rare behind-the-scenes tour! On Oct. 20, see preserved collections up close, visit demo stations & join Brewster Kahle for tours of the facility. 📆 Tues, Oct 20 🕕 6–8 PM 📍 Richmond, CA 🎟️ & Details ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...
Brewster Kahle gives a tour at the Physical Archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.
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archive.org @archive.org · 17/09/2026
Government information was meant to be distributed, & libraries play a key role in making the public record available. On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Merrilee Proffitt, James Jacobs & Christopher Marcum discuss why preserving it matters. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the... 🧵
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archive.org @archive.org · 17/09/2026
JUST ADDED: Tonight’s Negativland concert at the Internet Archive is sold out, but you can still join us online! The livestream begins at 6:30pm PT and will only be available during the show. At the band’s request, there will be no replay. Watch live ➡️ youtube.com/live/qiQ39fM...
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NEGATIVLAND LIVE AT INTERNET ARCHIVE
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archive.org @archive.org · 16/09/2026
GIFs became a defining part of the early web, including the ubiquitous “under construction” signs that marked unfinished pages. 🖥️ JD Shadel looks at what these fleeting images can teach us about preserving digital culture. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Quote tile with a light grey background and black text. Headline reads: "What can an old GIF teach us about preserving digital culture?" Quote below reads: "As with a lot of things on the web, GIFs were everywhere until the moment they weren't." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.Quote tile with a teal background and black text. Quote reads: "Early GIFs off GeoCities websites are really only accessible thanks to the work of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the GifCities search engine." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.Quote tile with an orange background and black text. Quote reads: "This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don't save it, even if it seems like it's everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.
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archive.org @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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archive.org @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...
Internet Archive Wayback Machine logo.
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archive.org @archive.org · 12/09/2026
🚨🔥 Tickets are close to selling out! If you want to experience @Negativlandland.bsky.social live in San Francisco, now’s the time to get yours and experience one unforgettable night at the Internet Archive. 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
Event promo graphic for Negativland live at Internet Archive, presenting "Significantly Less Deceptive" (An Over the Edge Evening), Sept. 16 at 300 Funston Ave, SF, CA, doors 6pm, show 6:30pm, Q&A afterwards, tickets $20. Ornate antique picture frames holding collaged, glitter-flecked portraits of two men with glasses sit among a field of yellow wildflowers. Photo by Jennifer Bennett and Negativland.
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archive.org @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... 🧵
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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archive.org @archive.org · 11/09/2026
You can listen to thousands of hours of Negativland’s Over The Edge on the Internet Archive. But you can’t experience this LIVE performance from home. Negativland IN PERSON. 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
Event promo graphic for Negativland live at Internet Archive, presenting "Significantly Less Deceptive" (An Over the Edge Evening), Sept. 16 at 300 Funston Ave, SF, CA, doors 6pm, show 6:30pm, Q&A afterwards, tickets $20. Ornate antique picture frames holding collaged, glitter-flecked portraits of two men with glasses sit among a field of yellow wildflowers. Photo by Jennifer Bennett and Negativland.
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archive.org @archive.org · 09/09/2026
Public data needs more than preservation. It needs to remain usable. 🏛️ THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD examines how civic society can preserve threatened government data & keep it useful. futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the... 🧵
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archive.org @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...
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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archive.org @archive.org · 08/09/2026
Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/
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archive.org @archive.org · 08/09/2026
Knitting machine punch cards are a living form of computing history. 🧶💾 In "Punch Card Knitting," Nichole Misako Nomura explores how these binary codes are still used today, and the challenges of preserving them. 📚 Read it in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...
What can knitting machines teach us about the history of computing?"They're an important piece of computing history—and crucially, one of the few that isn't only history because a broad community of people, on- and off-line, are still sharing knowledge on how to hack, restore, and use "Knitting punch cards are an important part of any feminist computing history, and surprisingly resilient." Quote graphic on a dark greenish-black background with light gray text and pixel-pattern bars above and below. Attribution reads Nichole Misako Nomura, Digital Humanities Scholar, with the Vanishing Culture logo."Working with knitting machine punch cards reminds me that the cloud is a metaphor, and lets me own and manipulate my code in a way I find both challenging and creatively liberating." Quote graphic on a light gray background with a dark green vertical bar and pixel-pattern accents on the left edge. Attribution reads Nichole Misako Nomura, Digital Humanities Scholar, with the Vanishing Culture logo.
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archive.org @archive.org · 08/09/2026
🔥 Tickets are going fast for this rare @Negativlandland.bsky.social live performance in San Francisco! Don’t miss Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive, a one-of-a-kind evening at the Internet Archive. 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
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archive.org @archive.org · 06/09/2026
Read the essay from the film archivist behind Uncommon Ephemera on why it’s important to preserve filmstrips: blog.archive.org/2024/09/23/v...
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Vanishing Culture: On Filmstrips | Internet Archive Blogs
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archive.org @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 a decorative yellow line-art path and "save" wordmark, plus a yellow ">" chevron tagline reading "tools you can use." Bold black text reads "Save Page Now." Below, a yellow folder icon with the Internet Archive logo and white text: "If you see something, save something."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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archive.org @archive.org · 04/09/2026
Negativland LIVE at Internet Archive! For more than 40 years, Negativland has turned found sound, radio & mass media into provocative art. Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive brings that to San Francisco! 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
Vintage-style event poster for a Negativland show, "Significantly Less Deceptive," described as "an Over the Edge style show, no visuals, with Q&A." A retro illustration shows a woman retrieving food from an open refrigerator, with a banner reading "San Francisco, September 16, 2026." Text below reads "Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, Doors at 6, Show at 6:30." A closed refrigerator with a face peeking around its base and the caption "David, where are my cigarettes?" appears at bottom right.
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archive.org @archive.org · 04/09/2026
We’ve teamed up with Better World Books for a brand new initiative, “For the Love of Books.” By donating to the Internet Archive through October 31, your gift will go towards supporting literacy and preservation 📚❤️ Make your donation here: donate.archive.org/campaign/838...
Internet Archive logo alongside the Better World Books logo, a blue-to-green winged book icon above the text "Better World Books," on a mustard-yellow background.
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archive.org @archive.org · 04/09/2026
For many artists, a website is more than a portfolio. It’s a record of a life’s work, built over decades, & something they want future generations to find. CARTA is helping preserve more than 50 artists’ websites. blog.archive.org/2026/08/25/a... 🧵
A composite image of three artworks. On top, side by side: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's fiber art wall installation spelling "CAUTION" in colorful woven thread (shown at The Armory Show with Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY, 2023), and Tim Davis's 2017 silkscreen print "Together As One," depicting a dense crowd before a white pyramid-shaped monument. Below, spanning the width: Bibiana Suárez's 1997-1998 digital prints "El niño Atocha con dálmatas / Little Jesus with Dalmatians" and "Jackie," two circular images showing a saint-like figure with animated 101 Dalmatians puppies and a photograph of Jackie Kennedy with her children Caroline and John Jr. from the funeral processional, placed alongside a veiled, crowned religious icon.
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archive.org @archive.org · 03/09/2026
What we read today was shaped by economic forces that transformed publishing decades ago. 📚 In BIG FICTION, Dan Sinykin explains how consolidation, new distribution systems & chain bookstores created the conditions for a new publishing mode 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big... 🧵
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archive.org @archive.org · 03/09/2026
🧩 Ever play THE IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ? This maddening Flash game is a snapshot of the weird, inventive web culture that flourished in the 2000s, and why saving Flash matters: creations that once defined web culture can otherwise disappear. 🎮 Play it on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/impo...
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archive.org @archive.org · 02/09/2026
🏛️ Democracy invites participation; democracies require it. Join us for Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation, exploring how preserving knowledge & opening access strengthens civic life. Join us IN PERSON! 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 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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archive.org @archive.org · 02/09/2026
Flash was once the playground of the web: games, animations & experiments made by anyone with an idea. 💻 Preserving those creations helps recover a lost chapter of culture. Jason Scott explores why Flash matters & why its preservation is vital. 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Teal graphic posing the question "Why preserve Flash software?" for the Vanishing Culture series, with Jason Scott, Free-range archivist, quoted saying "It was the backbone of menus and programs and even critical applications for working with sites … many major sites couldn't live without it."Light green-gray graphic quoting Jason Scott, Free-range archivist, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "Flash flew across from the mid-2000's internet sky in a blaze of glory and unbridled creativity. It was the backbone of menus and programs and even critical applications for working with sites."Light green-gray graphic quoting Jason Scott, Free-range archivist, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "Flash flew across from the mid-2000's internet sky in a blaze of glory and unbridled creativity. It was the backbone of menus and programs and even critical applications for working with sites."Orange graphic quoting Jason Scott, Free-range archivist, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "We may never know what combinations of ease, nostalgia, and variety have left so many people with such a fondness for Flash. But one thing is clear… it's preservation is vital."
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archive.org @archive.org · 01/09/2026
🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs helped people learn, trade software & explore personal computing. A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a time capsule of that world. Explore the Atari collection & more computer history: blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a... 🧵
A 2x2 grid of four 1987 Atari computer club newsletter covers. Upper left: the tan-toned "SBACE" cover with a desktop interface and tiger image. Upper right: the white "ST Potpourri" cover with a digital illustration of spheres reading "JACS" in a checkerboard room. Lower left: the white "The Communicator" cover with a pixelated UFO illustration. Lower right: the yellow-toned "G.R.A.S.P. Gazette" cover with a line-art illustration of a raised fist and a coastal lighthouse scene.
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archive.org @archive.org · 31/08/2026
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, SIMULTANEOUS COUNTER-COMPOSITION (1930) 🎨🇳🇱 🖼️ Theo van Doesburg’s geometric abstraction is associated with De Stijl, the influential movement he helped shape. See it ➡️ archive.org/details/simu... 🧵
"Welcome to the Public Domain" graphic on a blue and yellow background, featuring Theo van Doesburg's abstract painting "Simultaneous Counter-Composition" (1930), with geometric blocks of yellow, red, dark green, and blue divided by black lines. An animated yellow padlock character with white cartoon legs and black heels — its shackle open — runs across the bottom right.
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archive.org @archive.org · 31/08/2026
For decades, Negativland has challenged conventions around media, copyright & culture. Now, for a rare live appearance, they bring Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive to the Internet Archive in San Francisco! 📅 Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
Left half of event promo graphic for Negativland live at Internet Archive, presenting "Significantly Less Deceptive" (An Over the Edge Evening), Sept. 16 at 300 Funston Ave, SF, CA, doors 6pm, show 6:30pm, Q&A afterwards, tickets $20. Three ornate antique picture frames, one with a picture-in-picture inset, hold collaged, glitter-flecked portraits of members of Negativland, set among a field of yellow wildflowers. Photo by Jennifer Bennett and Negativland.
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archive.org @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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archive.org @archive.org · 29/08/2026
🏛️ Government websites can change or disappear overnight, taking public records with them. 🕳️ Libraries have collaborated on the End of Term Web Archive since 2004 to preserve U.S. government websites at every presidential transition. blog.archive.org/2026/08/24/a... 🧵
Social media tile with a black border. At top, a bold headline reads "Archiving Democracy: How the U.S. End of Term Web Archive Preserves Government History." Below it, a bar chart titled "End of Term Archive Data Growth" shows storage size in terabytes rising from 6 TB in 2004 to 2,345 TB in 2024, with intermediate values of 15 (2008), 41 (2012), 284 (2016), and 266 (2020). Below the chart, text reads: "The Internet Archive has participated in the End of Term (EOT) Archive since 2004, preserving U.S. federal government websites at every presidential transition."
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archive.org @archive.org · 29/08/2026
What does it mean to participate in a library? 🔖 Save a webpage. 📚 Improve a book record. 🔎 Discover a document. 📣 Share a collection. 🏛️ Preserve local history. The Internet Archive has tools for it all. Over 8 weeks, we'll show you how. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... #ToolsYouCanUse
Event flyer for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," with the title at the top and a colorful abstract line drawing of a library building rendered in interlocking yellow, pink, and blue lines below. Text reads "Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm - 10pm, Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco."
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archive.org @archive.org · 28/08/2026
Negativland’s infamous U2 parody sparked a landmark fight over fair use & artistic freedom. Hear the group whose work helped shape that conversation, live at the Internet Archive! 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
Vintage-style event poster for a Negativland show, "Significantly Less Deceptive," described as "an Over the Edge style show, no visuals, with Q&A." A retro illustration shows a woman retrieving food from an open refrigerator, with a banner reading "San Francisco, September 16, 2026." Text below reads "Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, Doors at 6, Show at 6:30." A closed refrigerator with a face peeking around its base and the caption "David, where are my cigarettes?" appears at bottom right.
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archive.org @archive.org · 27/08/2026
What if the rules meant to stop AI scraping also stopped us from saving the web? The future of the open web is being debated this week in a conference room in London. How can you help? Get informed: cdt.org/insights/wil...
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Will the Open Internet Survive the War on Bots? Mapping the Debate Over “AI Preferences”
Next week, CDT — along with a broad cohort of tech and policy experts from civil society, the internet publishing world, search engine providers, AI labs, commercial data collectors, digital archivist...
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archive.org @archive.org · 27/08/2026
📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can be the product of a system. In BIG FICTION, Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues books are shaped by a larger system: agents, editors, marketers & others whose decisions shape the page. 🎧Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big... 🧵
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archive.org @archive.org · 26/08/2026
🌐 With 370+ campers & 350+ sessions & activities, there was no way to experience everything at #DWeb Camp. On Aug. 27, hear about projects & takeaways from Camp with Matthew Hodgson, Arushi Bandi & Alaska. 📅 Thurs. Aug. 27 🕙 10 AM PT / 19 CET 📍VIRTUAL 🎟️ Register: tix.dod.ngo/dwebcamp/vir...
Promotional banner for "DWeb Camp JOMO" (JOMO crossed out and replaced with "FOMO — in case you missed it"), reading "Aug 27 // 10 AM PT / 7 PM CET // virtual." The DWeb logo appears top left. On the right, a nighttime stage photo shows a large group of smiling attendees posed together, with one person raised on another's shoulders, arms up, in front of a leafy, vine-covered backdrop.
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archive.org @archive.org · 26/08/2026
🕳️ What happens when an entire TV network nearly disappears from history? The DuMont Network pioneered television with firsts that shaped the medium, yet much of its legacy is gone forever. 📺 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Teal graphic for the Vanishing Culture series asking "How much of America's early television history is gone for good?" and quoting Taylor Cole Miller, Media Historian, with the quote "Television culture is inextricably linked with American culture, but most early television is lost forever, a vanishing era of our culture with few traces."Orange graphic quoting Taylor Cole Miller, Media Historian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "DuMont's television archive was intentionally destroyed as a result of the negotiations of a sale in the 1970s...dumped in the Upper New York Bay. Very neat. No problem."
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