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The Internet Archive which hosts the Wayback Machine even have their own Mastodon instance, check it out!

https://mastodon.archive.org/explore

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#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

It’s the weekend, but the #livestream never sleeps.

When our scanners rest, the stream keeps going, with gems from the #InternetArchive: silent films, home movies, early tech, and more.

Tune in now https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

#InternetArchive

@internetarchive
Favorite page: the former #LeCrestois website, back in 2004. There wasn't much content, but it was very animated!
https://web.archive.org/web/20041021181143/http://www.le-crestois.fr/

Now: the same web address, with all the content added since the pandemic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250711113842/https://le-crestois.fr/

#WaybackMachine #InternetArchive #WebHistory

As the Wayback Machine approaches 1 trillion archived web pages this October, we want your help picking memorable ones to highlight.

Reply with your favorite pages to nominate them for the spotlight.

#WaybackMachine #WebHistory #internetarchive

Rise & shine, it's #livestream time!

The #InternetArchive’s microfiche team is back for another week of scanning. Tune in & enjoy real-time preservation work with mellow lo-fi vibes in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

If you didn’t catch the most recent episode of FUTURE KNOWLEDGE, now’s a great time to listen. Author Cory Doctorow talks about THE INTERNET CON: his practical guide to loosening Big Tech’s grip and reclaiming a more open web.

Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-internet-con

#InternetArchive #podcast #CoryDoctorow @AuthorsAlliance

The #livestream doesn’t stop when we're off for the holiday or weekend.

When the microfiche scanning team powers down overnight & on weekends, the feed keeps on keeping on, shifting to silent films, home movies & other gems from the #InternetArchive.

Catch the stream https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

On Canada Day, our second shift (4 PM–Midnight PT US) is digitizing Canadian government documents on microfiche dating back to the 1930s.

Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

#InternetArchive #livestream #LiveNow #CanadaDay

We’re back at it: scanning microfiche live at the #InternetArchive.

Tune in & join us as we preserve history one frame at a time
https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

Not scanning? Still streaming!

Our livestream runs around the clock. After microfiche scanning hours (Mon–Fri, 7:30 AM–midnight PT / GMT+8), enjoy a curated mix of vintage footage, films, and more from the #InternetArchive.

Tune in https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models - On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropi... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/ #internetarchive #machinelearning #aidevelopment #bookscanning #legalrulings #trainingdata #aicompanies #googlebooks #airesearch #aitraining #anthropic #copyright #aiethics #scanning #fairuse #biz⁢ #policy #claude #ailaw #ai

First time add an item to the #InternetArchive
There is an ISO image and files from the case with Globalsat BT-328 GPS receiver (2006 year).

Looks like it can work with PDAs based on Windows, but I've managed to use it with PalmOS.

Inside the manuals and some programs for Windows and MacOS.

https://archive.org/details/gps-receiver-bt-328-v-1.2

#gps #pda #palm #PalmOS

Why are so many new horror films based on public domain works?

This #FridayThe13th (fittingly), let’s look at what this slasher surge says about remix culture & the role of the public domain.

More https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/13/screams-in-the-vault/

#PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive

Big names at @CivicTechTO tonight, the founder of the @internetarchive and executive director of @internetarchivecanada

You can join in-person or online!

https://guild.host/events/civic-hacknight-497-enebnt

#internetarchive #wayback_machine

Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 - This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late sinc... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/ #internetarchive #retrocomputing #internethacks #earlyinternet #rasberrypi #geocities #proxy #web

So here’s a really useful tip if you’re using archive.org to look up a site and it redirects to some other site because that’s what they saw at a later crawl…

Prefix your search (in the URL bar) with:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/

So, for example, if you search for https://www.blendwebmix.com/ on archive.org, you’ll get a redirect to a different site.

But if you enter the following URL in your browser:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.blendwebmix.com/

You’ll get the calendar view with all the crawls of the URL.

Thanks to iarchivist for the tip (https://archive.org/post/1012493/wayback-how-to-deal-with-redirects).

(I’m going through and fixing all the links in a decade of talks for Laura and myself on the Kitten version of the Small Technology Foundation site and most of the conference sites are either gone or don’t have archives so the Internet Archive is coming through again bigtime.)

#InternetArchive #waybackMachine #archiving #redirects #tip

Plans for the weekend: I'm going to scan the local anarchist bookshop's entire collection with a barcode reader, so they finally get an inventory. I'll probably use my little program which also checks whether a book is needed by the #InternetArchive. (Still works without changes 5 years later!)

https://framagit.org/nemobis/bots/-/blob/master/ia-wishlist-isbnreader.py

I need to circle back and re-read his "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology".

I read it when it came out in 1992, but frankly don't remember much from it.

Edit: Free #PDF on archive.org!

https://ia601802.us.archive.org/27/items/235p-technopoly-neil-postman/235p%20technopoly-neil-postman.pdf

This is from the Wikipedia entry:

"Postman considers technopoly to be the most recent of three kinds of cultures distinguished by shifts in their attitude towards technology – tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. Each, he says, is produced by the emergence of new technologies that "compete with old ones…mostly for dominance of their worldviews".

#NeilPostman #Technopoly #Technology #Media #Politics #InternetArchive

The #InternetArchive wants your support for this petition urging the record labels to drop their existential lawsuit. I signed.

https://chng.it/MdZM9xQXdw

@internetarchive fantastic doing all these years good work. Hopefully the archives are at a save place because #trump and the #gop wants to destroy it. #SwitchToEU #internetarchive #wikipedia