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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm humbled to share that our project, "CiteCast: Linking US local & national television news to cited web resources," has been selected to receive an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants - Libraries award. www.imls.gov/grants/award...

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Recently, Sawood (ibnesayeed.bsky.social) & I uncovered a tricky web archiving replay problem. An API call several layers of JS deep had superfluous browser size args that would intermittently load the wrong JSON for the archived HTML ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026... (all images/links are SFW)

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2026-05-26: URL Arguments in API Calls Can Cause Intermittent Temporal Violations While Replaying Archived Web Pages

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🚨 The authors found that, by mid-2025, 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted (up from zero before ChatGPT’s launch). Interesting paper on the impact of AI-generated text on the internet, relying on data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

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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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Sawood Alam @ibnesayeed.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A @pewresearch.org study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago, and about 25% of pages sampled across the decade, are now inaccessible; @archive.org's analysis shows that the @waybackmachine.bsky.social has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages. blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/g...

Archiving status of all the URLs from the Pew dataset in the Wayback Machine.

Yearly archiving status of URLs from the general sample of the Pew dataset in the Wayback Machine.

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web" Sawood Alam's (@ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @archive.org, @waybackmachine.bsky.social) #WAC2025 presentation. blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/g...

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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web | Internet Archive Blogs

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