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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 06/08/2026
Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time. archive.org/details/prof... (1912) thats it. just that.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 28/07/2026
Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude. A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. Canadians paid for building it ($6.4B) and endured getting jerked around right before opening. Thank you, Canada! Gordie Howe Bridge! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
Gordie Howe bridge opens to traffic after months of delays
Namesake’s family was the first to cross the bridge, whose opening was held up over financial details of the Canada-U.S. project
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 08/07/2026
DWeb camp in on near Berlin. Let’s build a web with many winners. Let’s lock the web open. Dwebcamp.org
dwebcamp.org
DWeb Camp: Root Systems
We invite you to join us at DWeb Camp!
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 28/05/2026
The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring it much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital. archive.org/details/noaa blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/t...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 19/05/2026
blog.archive.org/2023/10/04/i... Go Connie Chan!
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 19/05/2026
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023! blog.archive.org/2023/04/20/s... blog.archive.org/2025/11/03/s... 2/3
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 19/05/2026
Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-good pick to endorse for your seat. Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and recieved Internet Archive Hero award in 2023! 1/3
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 15/05/2026
The Daily Weather Report, 1938 International and Upper Air Sections by Air Ministry Meteorological Office, London W.C.2. Check out the first pages at link below. Someone (& all AI's) need to know! I love my job. pls post photos of why your job is awesome. archive.org/details/dail...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/04/2026
🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️
Infographic titled “URLs Preserved in the Wayback Machine” based on a dataset of 5.4 million URLs. It shows 26% of web pages are dead and 74% are still alive. Of the total, 10% have vanished completely, 18% are endangered (not yet preserved), 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine, and 56% are preserved. The visual uses a flow-style diagram to show how preservation reduces permanent loss.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
wired.com
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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carlmalamud @yeswescan.org · 11/04/2026
Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at archive.org/details/Publ... and YouTube at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ht @holovaty.com @brewster.kahle.org
archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/04/2026
Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️ Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_... #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 17/03/2026
Claude Code is more fun than Netflix. Bravo.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 21/01/2026
Public Domain Day short film contest by @archive.org on NPR! www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n... 2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2... A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: archive.org/details/geor...
npr.org
Public domain contest challenges filmmakers to remix Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and more
Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 02/01/2026
thank you, rajbot. here is the graph from that presentation. I did not dig into their references.
graph of ride share vs waymo in SF
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/01/2026
It listed references to where it got each datapoint. and for what it is worth, the ones I had (few) were in line with its numbers. So I think it is as good as my (non-insider) numbers could have been.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/01/2026
ride hailing trips in San Francisco (helped by chatgpt) Uber: ~54% Lyft: ~26% Waymo: ~8% Taxis: ~11% waymo's seem to be everyhere but are only 10% of lyft/uber total/day ~150k Uber (ride-hail)~82k-90k/day Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k Waymo. ~13k Taxis (trad) ~15k–20k
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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DWeb @getdweb.net · 19/12/2025
Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/12/2025
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 19/12/2025
Wow! this is so great. Lets work together on this!
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 16/12/2025
Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @archive.org Thank you crypto folks! www.blockchain.com/explorer/tra... to: archive.org/donate/crypt...
blockchain.com
Transaction: ae4800e03c1b55324deec6d6a7630e803eef321d6aba257b733c17b83585cc41 | Blockchain.com
The easiest and most trusted transaction search engine and block explorer.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 16/12/2025
Thank you for finding that! (and in the @archive.org ! extra points)
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 16/12/2025
"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. " Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?" really fun, worth reading. archive.org/details/sim_...
archive.org
American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Vol 47 Iss 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Volume 47, Issue 1.Digitized from IA1514523-07.Previous issue:...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 09/12/2025
And In person in San Francisco. Light food, good people, bunch of the Internet Archive UX group.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 09/12/2025
This presentation will show many different ways that people have built services on archive.org data and API's. The idea is to find others that want to do this, and how the @internetarchive can improve.
archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 06/12/2025
$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow! lower than I imagined. can be as low as $0.12 w lower rates "...the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling...75,000 pounds...over a 390-mile long-haul route." tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile. www.electrive.com/2025/12/05/c...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/12/2025
Each day we collect over 1 billion URL's. and try: display.archive.org/nl
display.archive.org
Stitchting Internet Archive - NL
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/12/2025
Please come! best time is the tours every friday at 1pm. free. I give the tour when I am in town.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/12/2025
We bought that building *because* it matched our logo. Our logo came first: by 15 years. Great building. Former Christian Science church.
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 30/11/2025
One of humanity’s most important cultural resources
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PersonPerson @per9736.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Just donated to the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine. You?
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
Buenas Dias
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
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...
internet archive photo
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
Yes, souped-up golf carts and they are being used for general mobility... In Rome they are common, in Amsterdam they are everywhere! And in gated communities, like in Palm Springs. Americans can keep the SUV in the garage and drive LSVs. (ala 15 minute cities en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minu... )
en.wikipedia.org
15-minute city - Wikipedia
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
It is slower than I would drive around on some roads in SF, but it works. In the city you dont average anything like 25 miles per hour, but I go faster than that often. but I quickly got used to it. In France, I just learned the Citreon Ami can be driven by 14 year olds.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
Amsterdam little cars. Starting to happen in the US!
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
all roads w/ 35mph limits or less are ok for LSV, therefore almost all roads in SF. Here are all limits on all roads in SF: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... from: catalog.data.gov/dataset/spee... (go sf data!)
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles) 25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco. Can drive on almost all roads in the city. This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types. 1/2
zeromax carzeromax car
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
I found IMLS supported community projects-- like ones that helped train librarians and ones in remote locations.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 28/11/2025
Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" IMLS funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. but everyone is gone and grants cancelled so who now gets employed? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-vict...
libraryjournal.com
A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency
In a summary judgment on November 21 in Rhode Island v. Trump, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled that the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 02/11/2025
x.com/grok/status/...
x.com
Grok on X: "@Muskisacrunt25 @DanielJHannan Daniel Hannan nailed the EU's democratic deficits and the Euro's flaws long before Brexit validated his warnings on sovereignty erosion. He's consistently championed free markets and limited government, spotting bureaucratic overreach that others ignored. Perfection's rare in" / X
@Muskisacrunt25 @DanielJHannan Daniel Hannan nailed the EU's democratic deficits and the Euro's flaws long before Brexit validated his warnings on sovereignty erosion. He's consistently championed free markets and limited government, spotting bureaucratic overreach that others ignored. Perfection's rare in
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/11/2025
So nice to see *support* for libraries by the US government! Go California and thank you Senator Padilla! "Senator Alex Padilla Honors Internet Archive’s 1 Trillion Milestone in Congressional Record" blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/s... @archive.org
photo of senator
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 30/10/2025
"The two biggest barriers to progress are bitterness and nostalgia". -- Andrew Pace, Exec Dir of ARL Most important sentence I have heard in a long time. Does it work for you?
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 26/10/2025
Celebration of 1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome. over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world. @archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 25/10/2025
Bezos Earth Fund helping convert all US school buses to from diesel to electric by 2030 (480,000 of them!) www.bezosearthfund.org/grants/equit... this is the program: electricschoolbusinitiative.org Sounds bold, the right direction, and generally good to me. $37.5m grant in 2020, fingers crossed.
bezosearthfund.org
Equitably Electrifying Every School Bus in the U.S.
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