The Wayback Machine (November, 2001) web.archive.org/web/20011109...

Internet Archive Europe progress: new network router is now installed in central switching point. Onward! www.internetarchive.eu (Will substitute for one supported by XS4ALL and KPN for 20+ years -- thank you!)

We also encourage you to make sure all of the reports on this page are in wayback machine! www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...

Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!

Such a pleasure to tour Copenhagen libraries with @brewster.kahle.org, Mary and @internetarchive.eu to discuss libraries and archives as critical infrastructure, publishers as data cartels, digital sovereignty, data mirroring, public AI and - of course - the politics of data loss. @erc.europa.eu

Visiting public infrastructures and workers w @internetarchive.eu and @brewster.kahle.org: CPH public library, Danish National Radio (Prompt by @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social), @andersmyrvoll.bsky.social at the Danish Royal Library and @ucph.bsky.social + the University Library.

SAVING CAMPUS & COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY 🎙 At June's National Campus & Community Radio Association conference, #InternetArchive’s Jennifer Waits, Asst. Curator for the #collegeradio collection in DLARC, shared her work. ▶️ Watch her talk.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Hero gave away his songs before he passed. Even more reasons to love this man. "All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. " tomlehrersongs.com

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.” In a new interview‬, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system. @cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org vimeo.com/1103555091/8...

Philip Bump of Washpo always anchored his articles with data, and data well presented. Sorry to see him leave that prominent organization.

Right now, federal courts are deciding what type of AI training is fair use. California’s A.B. 412 would have jumped the gun and decided that copyright owners should win. We’re glad to see it has stalled for this year.

🗞️ Local journalism matters. Thanks to a $1M Press Forward grant, we’ll support 300+ newsrooms with training, tools & services in collaboration with Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) & The Poynter Institute. Details ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/16/

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible. ⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social

In the latest episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, historian IAN MILLIGAN discusses his book AVERTING THE DIGITAL DARK AGE with Internet Archive founder BREWSTER KAHLE. Moderated by TAKARA SMALL 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

"In an age of informational chaos, the Wayback Machine feels like one of the few institutions that never lies to us." Nice comment from Current Affair editor www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-to-...

From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

Interview of the new librarian of the British Library : www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Q&As on AI:

A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries: blog.archive.org/2025/06/29/a... What the Anthropic decision means for preservation, access and the future of libraries.

If US AI lawsuits settle-- how would others than big corps make out? creators? the public? new startups? (analysis: not well) We saw this movie before with Authors Guild v Google, but that settlement was stopped by an uprising. Will that happen again? www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/20/w...

A Burger King ad on Russian TV (featuring an AC/DC riff from Thunderstruck). Fun, and kind of surprising. (thx roger) archive.org/details/RUSS...

Bombing of Iranian TV Station real time is in the @archive.org's TV Archive archive.org/details/IRIN... Then returns in another studio 23 minutes later: archive.org/details/IRIN...

Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from a DDOS yesterday. Max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood" @archive.org does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack = wouldbe bad saturday. Thank you #CloudFlare

A power outage shut archive.org down, and some equipment did not come back-- argh, sorry. Replaced and back!

📹 Setting up a livestream isn’t easy. That’s why we turned to an expert: Sophia Tung. See how this creative software engineer brought her signature mix of tech + chill to our new microfiche scanning livestream—now preserving government records in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93Q...

"The Electric-- the simplest of motor cars" ad in Vogue magazine in 1912. (nytimes has an article about that era of electrics with a cool ad: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/b... ) loving our electric vehicles in 2025. archive.org/details/sim_...

📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing. The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library. Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress. 🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays) ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

🕗 The microfiche livestream runs until 8pm PT tonight—then switches over to silent films & NASA images from Internet Archive collections. 🚀🎞️ Scanning resumes tomorrow during normal hours: 📅 Mon–Fri ⏰ 7:30am–3:30pm PT 📴 (Closed on U.S. holidays) 🎬 Watch: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

'Want to “watch democracy get scanned”? ' thank you! www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/you-...

New livestream (lo-fi chill) -- Microfiche -- US govdocs online&free. (important) Work of Many many people now in production! join in the fun: >> fun: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... archive.org/details/demo... go @archive.org !

Apologies for yelling, but— SCOTUS COULDN’T DO ITS JOB BECAUSE TOO MANY JUSTICES HAVE BOOK DEALS WITH A PARTY IN A CASE

We just submitted our comments to the @CopyrightOffice in its study of the CASE Act now that #Copyright Claims Board it created has been working for 2 years. Our verdict: it's an object lesson in what happens when you pass a law over strong objections of half the stakeholders.

📚 Fair use empowers libraries, learners, journalists & creators—it’s essential to a healthy digital society. With turmoil at the Copyright Office, @brewster.kahle.org urges us: don’t lose sight of fair use. Read the post ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/05/14/p... #FairUse #DigitalRights

Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers. Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.

We were very sad to hear this news. Dr Hayden has been an inspiration for many of our volunteer librarians. She will always be our Librarian of the People. ❤️🛟 www.datarescueproject.org/thank-you-ca...

📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine. “A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish. 🔗 Explore: web.archive.org 🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k

Letter sent to Wikimedia mirrored here: archive.org/details/mart...

US threatening Wikipedia’s non-profit status over 3rd party content? I stand by Wikipedia Brewster Kahle, Founder Digital Librarian Internet Archive www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... (paywall) www.theverge.com/news/656720/... www.thefp.com/p/trump-pros...

Happy Earth Day!

well... got some little inspiration tonight and look, guess @archive.org team have a guest. yes, it's her, alexandria!

Mark Graham (@mark.bsky.social), director of the #WaybackMachine, explains how the Wayback Machine archives over half a billion pages daily to ensure vital information remains accessible. Full video ➡️ youtu.be/ETpNMXeiR7c #InternetArchive #DigitalHistory #Preservation

This is coming online @internetarchive ! Thank you Graduate Theological Union.

from a purely economic point of view, did the US just: Brexit itself? Smoot–Hawley Tariff itself? (that 1930) Covid-shock itself? And without congressional vote?

"Record labels attempt to bankrupt Internet Archive over grandpa's dusty old 78s" www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

US Government Websites: Jan 5th, 2025.

President Teddy Roosevelt (R) 1902 on 'national life': "When all is said and done, the rule of brotherhood remains as the indispensable prerequisite to success in the kind of national life for which we strive." —From Message of President Roosevelt. archive.org/details/unit...

"Georgia School Librarians Could Be Found Guilty of Lawbreaking if Shelves Carry ‘Explicit’ Material; Bill to Ban Obscene Material in Iowa Libraries Advances; & More Headlines" Status of libraries in the US: argh. (thank you for researching, Gary Price) www.infodocket.com/2025/02/26/g...

"Bringing Collections to Life" in our libraries the Stichting Internet Archive held a meeting in the beautiful WAAG in Amsterdam to find how to help New foundational LLM model for a small language was demonstrated Look at the fabulous room! @stichtinginternetarchive.nl stichtinginternetarchive.nl

"The pandemic resulted in approximately 1.7 million excess deaths among individuals aged 25 and older between 2020 and 2023" In United States. First I have seen this number. from www.nber.org/system/files...

Building AI in Europe for the public good! Enabled by regulatory certainty there. "Well-trained AI model turns speech into text" in Sweden Using more than 50,000 hours of TV, parliamentary speeches and dialects for training data by the National Library of Sweden. www.kb.se/samverkan-oc...