💪 Protect our archives! Physical and digital records serve critical roles in society by preserving our history and culture. 🏛️ 🌐 The Wayback Machine helps to archive the history of the web, which is critical for @wikipedia.org: without it, link rot erodes the verifiability of information online.

To clear up any confusion, this action is not about the Internet Archive, which is at archive.org, or the Wayback Machine. www.techradar.com/pro/security...

📢 TOMORROW! Learn how tech & capitalism shape human creativity in SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ Vauhini Vara & Luca Messarra. 🎙️📖 A LIVE #booktalk you won’t want to miss. 📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno... @vauhinivara.bsky.social

🧵 Long before Disney songs became iconic, Mickey’s 1930 comic strips referenced hits like “Singin’ in the Rain” 🎶 These musical moments made Mickey part of the cultural soundscape. Learn how the comics turned borrowed songs into musical foundation ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/24/m... 1️⃣/3️⃣

Thank u @archive.org for being who you are these last 30 yrs. Mr. Lee Owen of Born Cross Eyed made me my 1st 6 or 8 Grateful Dead tapes that I could then trade on tape trees around the 🌎 when ftp was a thing & we thought the Internet was a good thing for humanity, but the profit 📈 motive killed it.

✏️📆 Filling out your calendar for the week? 🎙️📖 Join us for a LIVE #booktalk exploring how AI transforms what we create & share in SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ @VauhiniVara.bsky.social & Luca Messarra. 📅 Thu Feb 26, 2026 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno...

In Praise of Pre-Hays: “Morocco” and the Public Domain blog.archive.org/2026/01/20/i... #publicdomain #lgbtqia #film

As someone in the replies notes, this is NOT the Internet Archive, which is a whole nonprofit and whose facilities I have visited in person. (I forget that people do not know this stuff.)

Enter a world of mystic cats and feminist histories 🐈✨ Internet Archive's latest #ArtistInResidence Cindy Rehm brings collections to life in THE SEERS, using archived works on women, mysticism, cats, and craft to create bold new #feministart. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/19/t...

🧵 Curious how researchers, journalists, and artists dig into the web’s past? 🌐 WAYS OF WORKING WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE shows how the #WaybackMachine opens up a world of discovery and creativity. Learn more ⤵️ www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w... 1️⃣/5️⃣ #WebArchives #DigitalResearch

🎬📚 Just dropped: MYSTERY COPYRIGHT THEATER 2026! The @authorsalliance.bsky.social crew riff on works that entered the #publicdomain, untangling the weird, wild, and confusing world of #copyright law with irreverent but relevant commentary. Full short👇 archive.org/details/mct2... #PublicDomainDay

Congrats to "NOBODY KNOWS" by Mohamed Wane, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 An editing achievement that builds a mood of longing, suffering & rapture. Quietly powerful & deeply felt. Watch ➡️ archive.org/details/nobo... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

📣 Co-create #DWebCamp 2026 in #Berlin next week! Join the Unconference + Meetup exploring #decentralization & the future of public knowledge in Europe. Meetup features a live fireside chat with Brewster Kahle. 📅 Feb 28, 2026 📍c-base in Berlin 🎟️🆓 dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/ 🧵1️⃣/2️⃣

🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

🎼 Welcome to the Public Domain, BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON (1930) 🌅 🎶 The beloved tune by Richard A. Whiting, Leo Robin & W. Franke Harling debuted in the musical film MONTE CARLO, introduced on screen by Jeanette MacDonald. See the sheet music ⤵️ archive.org/details/beyo... #PublicDomainDay

Meet the author behind next week's #booktalk, SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE 📖 VAUHINI VARA reports for The Atlantic, The New Yorker & NYT Magazine, and author of The Immortal King Rao & This is Salvaged. 📅 Thu Feb 26, 2026 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno...

Who benefits from the internet we’re building? Brewster Kahle discusses building "a smarter infrastructure rather than more powerful monopolies" ahead of his keynote at CloudFest. www.cloudfest.com/blog/brewste...

📚 How does tech shape our desire to understand & connect? Join award-winning journalist & author @VauhiniVara.bsky.social for a LIVE #booktalk on SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ co-host Luca Messarra. 📅 Thu Feb 26, 2026 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno...

Shipwrecks, mutiny & Hernando Colón’s quest to collect everything ever printed. Tune in to the Future Knowledge #podcast to hear Edward Wilson-Lee & Brewster Kahle discuss THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the... #InternetArchive

A trillion webpages, saved. 🌐 To mark the milestone, Internet Archive x @GrayArea.Org commissioned new net.art created from within the Archive’s vast collections. Ex. “alive internet theory” by @spencerchang.me Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/internet-arc... 🧵 1️⃣/3️⃣ #Wayback1T

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠ ⁠ Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

🇮🇹 Italy hosted the Winter Games in 2006 and they’re carving fresh tracks in the show again, right now, in 2026 ❄️⛷️⛸️ Official sites get replaced, but you can still revisit the originals & compare past & present on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ web.archive.org #Olympics #WinterOlympics #InternetHistory

The recording from our #PublicDomainDay virtual event is now available! 🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the #publicdomain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks. Watch the full recording ⤵️ archive.org/details/the-...

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE SHINDIG (1930)! 🐭🐮🐴🎶 🎬 Mickey & Minnie take to the stage to show off their musical chops in this charming hoedown. Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow cut a rug as dancers. Full short ➡️ archive.org/details/the-... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #animation

💘Whether yearning or in love, vintage Valentine’s art shows how 💞 were shared. Charming & sweet, this collection of cards, covers, magazines & books from the past, are preserved for new generations to fall in love with 💌 Revel in romance ➡️ archive.org/details/@ias... #ValentinesDay #Preservation

🌹 Roses are red 🍬 Candy is sweet 💖 GifGrams are fun 📨 Sharing's a treat Send your own holiday GifGram made from vintage GeoCities GIFs to someone you adore. Make your own here ➡️ gifcities.org/gram/ 🧵 #GifGram #GIFsAreGifts

📣 Co-create DWebCamp 2026 in Berlin! 🏕️ Join the free Unconference + Meetup Feb 28, 2026, exploring decentralization & public knowledge in Europe 🇪🇺 DWeb community gathers at c-base, with an in-person fireside chat with @[email protected] . 🎟️🆓 dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/ 🧵1️⃣/2️⃣

The Winter #Olympics continue! ⛷️ 🏂 Celebrate gaming history by revisiting 1985’s "Winter Games" from our classic software collection ❄️ 💾 #SoftwarePreservation is how we go for the Gold! 🥇 🕹️ Play it on your favorite vintage platform ⤵️ archive.org/search?query... #8bit

🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️ Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts. It’s all in our blog ⬇️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t... 🧵1️⃣/5️⃣ #WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive

🎙️ Have you heard Future Knowledge?` This #podcast from the Internet Archive ( @Archive.org ) & Authors Alliance ( @authorsalliance.bsky.social ) explores how knowledge is created, shared & preserved in the digital age. Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Over 20 episodes out now! 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm

It’s #FridayThe13th 🖤 the kind of day that makes us knock on wood, sidestep ladders 🪜, and watch out for black cats 🐈‍⬛ 🔮 Preserving history shows how people have made sense of chance & misfortune Luckily🍀, a #supersition collection awaits ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... #Preservation

✨ 𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 + 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 🛸 Sat 28 Feb we’ll meet at @c-base.org, Berlin with @brewster.kahle.org, @internetarchive.eu, and many new and long-time DWeb allies! Join us to contribute shaping #DWebCamp 2026 🏕️ Free attendance, limited spots! 🎟️ All info + RSVP

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, BLONDIE (1930) 📰 👒 Blondie debuted as a carefree flapper in Chic Young’s comic strip. Her early adventures focused on attempts to win the blessing of Dagwood's snooty, rich family. Read the 1930 Blondie dailies ➡️ archive.org/details/blon... 🧵1/2 #PublicDomainDay

Hernando Colón aimed to collect every book ever printed. 📚 Hear Edward Wilson-Lee, author of THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS, talk with Brewster Kahle about Colón’s epic quest on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the... #libraries

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📚 How do our searches shape who we are, and who profits? Join Vauhini Vara for a LIVE podcast recording and #booktalk on SEARCHES, co-hosted by Luca Messarra. 📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026 🕙 10am PT / 1pm ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ blog.archive.org/event/book-t... @authorsalliance.bsky.social @vauhinivara.bsky.social

🏈🏆 The champions change. So do their websites. From early HTML to modern redesigns, the #WaybackMachine preserves the digital playbook of #NFL champs, decades of archived team sites, including the Seattle Seahawks 🏟️ Run the archive ➡️ web.archive.org #webpreservation #Football #Seahawks #superbowl

Congrats to "GEORGIA" by Javier Estella, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 A letter to the mother who left too soon. Based on a fragment of a home movie filmed in Georgia in 1930. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/geor... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

The recording from our #PublicDomainDay virtual event is now available! 🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works just entered the public domain & why copyright is more complicated than it looks. Watch the full recording ➡️ archive.org/details/the-... #PublicDomain

⏰ TOMORROW ⏰ Join us #LIVE for a Future Knowledge #Podcast recording: AI TOOLS, NOT GODS. It's a timely conversation cutting through AI hype and policy myths, focused on evidence, accountability & real-world impact. 📆 Tues Feb 10 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 Online event 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno...

A few folks are rushing in with "this is not football" Here's 1,400 emulated games calling themselves football to sort through. archive.org/search?query... Post the best!

🗓️ Mark your calendar. Join us for the Future Knowledge #Podcast live recording: AI TOOLS, NOT GODS 🎙️ AI is often framed as supernatural, shaping policy. This #booktalk explores what AI is & how it should be governed. 📆 Tues Feb 10 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno...

Waiting for kickoff… ⏳🏈 Go wayback & play FOOTBALL FOR WINDOWS (Windows 3.1, 1994), made by an ex-college player. You're the Coach. Pressure's on 😬 📋 Call the plays. Try not to blow it as the clock runs out! ⏱️ Preserved and emulated in the browser ➡️ archive.org/details/FOOTFW #SuperBowl

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, DOUGHBOYS (1930) 🎤 #BusterKeaton talks… & sings! In his first talkie, the Stone Face of the silent era reveals a surprisingly deep voice 🎶 & joins a ukulele-led scat jam of with Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/doug... #PublicDomainDay

Annie Rauwerda, creator of Depths of #Wikipedia, lives for the internet’s weirdest footnotes. Case in point: the long-gone Garfield the cat “G-Mail,” a defunct web curiosity now surviving only on the #WaybackMachine. 🙀📬 Read more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/02/05/d... @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

Someone decided today is DDOS the Internet Archive Day, a holiday celebrated all too frequently. Work is being done to mitigate it.

🎙️ Join us for a FUTURE KNOWLEDGE #PODCAST LIVE RECORDING: AI TOOLS, NOT GODS Featuring Caroline De Cock, LL.M., Head of Research at information labs.A clear-eyed look at how AI narratives influence real laws. 📆 Tues Feb 10 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 Online event 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno... #booktalk

Congrats to "THE REALITY ENGINEER" by Konstantin, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A comedic short about a scientist who attempts to improve human life by altering reality. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/the-... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

Annie Rauwerda has built a career exploring Wikipedia’s weirdest corners 🌐 The creator of Depths of Wikipedia says, she’s had a “simultaneous love affair with the Internet Archive and Wikipedia” ❤️ More 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/02/05/d... @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social #WaybackMachine #Wikipedia

Congrats to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME REIMAGINED" by Talissa Mehringer, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A music-film remix celebrating 1930s choreography & screen performers. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/drea... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay