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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
    19,474 15,594
    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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    15,419 5,242
    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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    14,531 2,919
    Oct 21, 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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    5,177 2,192
    Jun 11, 2025
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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.
    8,133 2,159
    Dec 28, 2024
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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.
    4,892 2,065
    Mar 13, 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.
    5,710 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.
    5,394 1,887
    Dec 26, 2024
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    If you have a minute to spare today ⬇️

    Internet Archive @archive.org
    📢 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
    2,152 1,673
    Apr 20, 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...
    3,793 1,535
    Feb 14, 2025
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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.
    6,833 1,158
    Oct 18, 2024
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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."
    4,697 1,139
    Dec 9, 2024
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    We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...

    Internet Archive Defends Digital Rights for Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs
    2,252 1,136
    Dec 16, 2023
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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
    4,204 1,070
    Mar 1, 2025
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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.
    7,168 1,063
    Dec 5, 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.
    6,521 1,009
    Oct 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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    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.”
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    Dec 12, 2024
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    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

    Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.
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    Jul 15, 2025
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    Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new?

    Your support makes it possible!

    👉 Like & share to spread the word.
    💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

    Internet Archive logo in white on a black background.
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    Dec 30, 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
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    Oct 28, 2024
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    Libraries matter. Access matters.

    After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

    @arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

    Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
    “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
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    Nov 3, 2025
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    🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️

    📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani...
    🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...

    ⬇️

    Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.
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    Apr 23, 2026
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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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    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
    3,030 758
    Apr 1, 2025