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    📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

    At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

    Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

    👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

    🧵⬇️

    Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
    19,492 15,609
    Apr 17, 2025
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    Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

    ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

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    15,422 5,249
    Jan 1, 2025
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    Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/i...

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    14,537 2,920
    Oct 21, 2024
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    This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!

    Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

    Wayback Machine capture of MTV News.
    8,139 2,160
    Dec 28, 2024
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    🌹 This weekend, the Grateful Dead will be honored at the Kennedy Center. Join in the celebration by listening to one of the 17,000 #GratefulDead concert recordings preserved at the Internet Archive: blog.archive.org/2024/12/05/c...

    What's the most popular recording? 👇

    Black and white photo of the Grateful Dead.
    7,172 1,063
    Dec 5, 2024
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    Latest update from @brewster.kahle.org (Oct 17, 5:58pm): blog.archive.org/2024/10/18/i...

    Last week, along with a DDOS attack and exposure of patron email addresses and encrypted passwords, the Internet Archive’s website javascript was defaced, leading us to bring the site down to access and improve our security.  The stored data of the Internet Archive is safe and we are working on resuming services safely. This new reality requires heightened attention to cyber security and we are responding. We apologize for the impact of these library services being unavailable. The Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning, and national library crawls have resumed, as well as email, blog, helpdesk, and social media communications.  Our team is working around the clock across time zones to bring other services back online. In coming days more services will resume, some starting in read-only mode as full restoration will take more time.  We’re taking a cautious, deliberate approach to rebuild and strengthen our defenses. Our priority is ensuring the Internet Archive comes online stronger and more secure. As a library community, we are seeing other cyber attacks—for instance the British Library, Seattle Public Library, Toronto Public Library, and now Calgary Public Library. We hope these attacks are not indicative of a trend. For the latest updates, please check this blog and our official social media accounts: X/Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon. Thank you for your patience and ongoing support.
    6,837 1,158
    Oct 18, 2024
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    Here’s an insider report on what’s going on behind the scenes to bring Internet Archive services online: www.reddit.com/r/internetar...

    Insider Report I am in town (SF) for our events next week, I talked to many people with more to come, and I'm sneaking out this verified fact: People are working so incredibly hard. The teams have getting the site back secure and safe as the number one priority. They have taken no days off this past week. They are taking none this weekend. There is a small set of people working on organizing the events next week. The rest, the developers and admins, this is all they are doing. The vast amount of our patrons understand the situation. A few do not and seem to think we are not doing this work literally round the clock. I spent today talking with tired and thoughtful people putting their all in. If someone out there was to do some grand gesture for this team, let me know. Otherwise, be assured: they are working with all of their energy and considerable talent.
    6,524 1,010
    Oct 19, 2024
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    Wayback Machine playback (and other functions) is down because of a power outage induced hardware failure.

    We are working to address this issue and bring the services back up ASAP.

    Thank you for your support and patience!

    5,765 442
    Feb 18, 2025
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    Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...

    Iconic image of Mickey Mouse standing at the wheel of a steamboat.
    5,715 1,960
    Jan 1, 2024
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    When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

    ⚓️ Popeye
    🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
    📖 The Sound and the Fury
    🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
    🏠️ A Room of One's Own
    🙌 Hallelujah
    🎺 Bolero
    and many more!

    🧵👇

    Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.
    5,395 1,888
    Dec 26, 2024
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    Update—Bringing more services online: blog.archive.org/2024/10/28/i...

    More services & features coming soon. Services may be interrupted for ongoing maintenance as we continue to secure systems.

    Thank you for your patience and ongoing support.

    Internet Archive Services Update | Internet Archive Blogs
    5,321 853
    Oct 28, 2024
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    🎉 Big update!
    The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

    Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
    🧵

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    5,181 2,192
    Jun 11, 2025
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    🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾

    📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

    Logo for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with Wayback in red and Machine in black.
    4,896 2,067
    Mar 13, 2025
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    ➡️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

    Singer-songwriter Cassie Blanton, who signed the Fight for the Future letter, tells Rolling Stone, "Musicians are struggling, but libraries like the Internet Archive are not our problem! Corporations like Spotify, Apple, Live Nation and Ticketmaster are our problem. If labels really wanted to help musicians, they would be working to raise streaming rates. This lawsuit is just another profit-grab."
    4,700 1,140
    Dec 9, 2024
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    Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️

    Senator @wyden.senate.gov is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/w...

    What's at stake? 🧵

    Wyden to FTC: Stop digital “bait-and-switch” sales | Internet Archive Blogs
    4,208 1,071
    Mar 1, 2025
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    Internet Archive preserves Flash games & provides access via browser emulation ⬇️

    TheShnazzyOne🌻🇺🇦 @theshnazzyone.bsky.social
    This is your reminder that @archive.org has Robot Unicorn attack playable on their website and I dare you to beat my high score of 64650 archive.org/details/robo...
    Robot Unicorn Attack : Adult Swim : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
    Robot Unicorn Attack is a Flash game developed by Spiritonin Media Games and published by Adult Swim. It's an endless runner where players take control of a...
    3,795 1,538
    Feb 14, 2025
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    Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save

    Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.

    Save Page Now
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    Nov 4, 2024
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    Update, Mark Graham ⬇️
    "Wanted to share an update from Team Wayback Machine

    The archives are safe & the Wayback Machine is up in read-only mode.

    We hope to turn more web crawling on within a day to make sure our web collections remain whole.

    Next up: Save Page Now.

    Thank you for the support!"

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    Oct 16, 2024
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    We are experiencing a power outage. Engineers are working on it now.

    3,069 273
    Mar 26, 2025
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    Hundreds of musicians are speaking out against the recording industry’s lawsuit against our library for preserving 78rpm records 👉 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... (🚫🧱)

    Want to show your support? ⬇️

    Tommy Cappel, who co-founded the group Beats Antique, says the Archive is “hugely valued in the music community” for its preservation of everything from rare recordings to live sets. “This is important work that deserves to continue for generations to come, and we don’t want to see everything they’ve already done for musicians and our legacy erased,” he added. “Major labels could see all musicians, past and present, as partners — instead of being the bad guy in this dynamic. They should drop their suit. Archives keep us alive.”
    3,062 910
    Dec 12, 2024
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    How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
    ➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...

    Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible!
    Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets
    3,032 758
    Apr 1, 2025
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    "Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games" from Game Developer: www.gamedeveloper.com/business/epi...

    Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
    The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.
    3,009 505
    Nov 19, 2024
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    The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action.

    🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/v...

    Alt: The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.
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    Oct 30, 2024
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    Latest update on the DDOS attack from Brewster Kahle (Oct 11 @ 10:22am PT):

    "The data is safe.

    Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard.

    Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks.

    Thank you for the offers of pizza (we are set)."

    2,622 583
    Oct 11, 2024
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    We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

    Greg Newby
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    Oct 22, 2025