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    🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

    As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎

    Learn more 👇
    www.theguardian.com/environment/...

    A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
    The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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    Jun 30, 2026
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    🌐 The web changes daily. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️

    38% of URLs that existed 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web.

    Internet Archive's @mark.bsky.social & Chris Freeland on why preserving the web matters, via @currentaffairs.bsky.social.

    🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil...

    Promotional graphic for the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Mark Graham and Chris Freeland, both wearing glasses, are pictured against a background of burning books. The Current Affairs masthead appears at the top in white serif type on black. White card with centered black serif text reading: "From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive's Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it." The Current Affairs name appears below in pink, followed by a decorative flourish. Opening paragraph of the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Large decorative W begins the text, which describes how websites go dark, governments purge public records, and streaming platforms remove films and music. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is introduced as a tool preserving snapshots of a constantly rewritten web.
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    Jul 7, 2026
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    🌐 Websites vanish. News archives go offline. Textbooks are withdrawn. Government reports are deleted.
    A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, asks what happens next.

    📖 Read or download it ⬇️
    journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic...
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    Teal graphic quoting Michael Menna and Lila Bailey, in The Political Librarian, with the quote "When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse."
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    Jul 21, 2026
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    More & more of our culture now exists only in digital form … but libraries can’t preserve what they don’t own.

    As books 📚, music 🎵, film 🎞️, and news 📰 shift from ownership to licensing, long-term access is becoming harder to guarantee.

    🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil...

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    Current Affairs quote card with black masthead at top reading "CURRENT AFFAIRS / A Magazine of Politics and Culture." Below, large serif text reads: "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom in pink. Current Affairs quote card with black masthead at top reading "CURRENT AFFAIRS / A Magazine of Politics and Culture." Below, Chris Freeland is quoted in large serif text that reads: "Yes, the news used to be a public good. It has a lot of protections in the Constitution. Now it's treated as just another commodity." Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom in pink. Current Affairs quote card. Mark Graham is quoted in large serif text that reads: "So social media platforms replace the prior primary news sites as destinations, and now AI is quickly becoming an important source, and I think in the near term, the dominant way that we're going to be informed. And so, if these AI systems are only getting their material from these non-paywalled sites that are publicly available, a significant percentage of that material will be produced by authoritarian governments, outright mis- and disinformation, produced by corporate interests that have a particular and strongly biased perspective, hyperpartisan, and it's not going to provide us with a depth and a breadth of an understanding of the balance of perspectives that is required for us to be able to have a true understanding of the world that we live in." Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom. Current Affairs quote card. Chris Freeland is quoted in large serif text that reads: "Yes, the news used to be a public good. It has a lot of protections in the Constitution. Now it's treated as just another commodity." Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom in pink.
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    Jul 13, 2026
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    📚 Culture doesn't have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️

    Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿

    The paper THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY digs into why.

    📖 Read or download it ⬇️
    journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic...
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    Grey-green graphic quoting Michael Menna and Lila Bailey, in The Political Librarian, with the quote "The vanishing culture crisis is so much bigger than paying high prices for the unreliable offerings of a streaming service. It represents a first-order threat to the project of historical preservation and, consequently, the intellectual freedoms and democratic participation that depend on it."
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    Jul 25, 2026
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    🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, JULES RIMET CUP (1930) 🏆⚽

    🖼️ The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Cup was designed by French sculptor Abel Lafleur. Cast in gold-plated sterling silver on a blue lapis lazuli base.

    See it in our collections ➡️ archive.org/details/jule...

    🧵1️⃣/3️⃣👇

    "Welcome to the Public Domain" graphic featuring two views of the Jules Rimet Cup (1930): a close-up of the gold trophy's winged figure holding a chalice aloft, and a full view of the trophy on its wooden and marble base. The Internet Archive's public domain "Lockette" mascot appears in the lower right corner. Blue and yellow background.
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    Jul 19, 2026
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    🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio recordings, including this #LibriVox reading of the Declaration of Independence.

    Learn how we're highlighting documents, recordings, and artifacts that tell the story of America's founding👇
    blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

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    Jul 4, 2026
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    📜🇺🇸 Printed on the night of July 4, 1776, the Dunlap Broadside was the first published copy of the Declaration of Independence, carrying news of independence across the colonies.

    See more remarkable items from the Internet Archive's collections👇
    blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

    #AmericanHistory

    The Dunlap Broadside of the United States Declaration of Independence, printed in Philadelphia by John Dunlap on July 4, 1776. The document is headed "In Congress, July 4, 1776" and titled "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled." The full text of the Declaration is set in period typefaces, opening with the "When in the Course of human Events" preamble and proceeding through the statement of self-evident truths, the list of grievances against the British Crown, and the formal declaration of independence. The document is signed in print by John Hancock as President and attested by Charles Thomson as Secretary, with the imprint "Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap" at the bottom. The broadside is printed on aged cream-colored paper. A close-up detail of the Dunlap Broadside showing the opening of the Declaration of Independence. Partial header text reads "United S[tates]" and "In Gene[ral Congress]." A large decorative drop capital "W" begins the preamble, followed by the text "HEN in the Course of" and continuing lines including "We hold these Truths," "unalienable Rights," "instituted among Men, deriving their just Pow[ers]," and "it is the Right of the People to alter," ending with the opening grievances "He has refused his Assent to Laws" and "He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws." The 18th-century typeface shows the characteristic long-s letterforms of the period. Printed on aged cream paper.
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    Jul 4, 2026
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    💾 We often think of online platforms as permanent homes for our photos & videos. They're not.

    On the Future Knowledge #podcast #VanishingCulture series, Luca Messarra explains why relying on them puts our cultural memory at risk.

    🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

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    Jul 5, 2026
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    🇨🇦 This Canada Day, we're celebrating the remarkable collection built by Internet Archive Canada and its library, archive, and university partners over the past 20 years.

    Discover how this digital library came together ⤵️
    internetarchivecanada.org/2026/07/01/w...

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    A pen-and-watercolor page from the Katchewanooka Herald presenting a five-panel comic sequence numbered 1–5. Panel 1: a soldier reassures a frightened woman, "Don't be alarmed Mrs. Collins, I will protect you"; panel 2 shows a hedgehog on a plank labeled "The supposed whirlpool"; panel 3 depicts the soldier prodding the hedgehog with a long pole, captioned "Mr. Collins am I done enough?"; panel 4 shows a woman seated on a trunk covering her face, captioned "Oh! Oh! Mr. Collins do not be so rash"; panel 5 shows a figure lying flat on the ground, captioned "At the report of the gun Mrs. Collins has fainted & disappears behind the log." The paper is aged with torn edges.
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    Jul 1, 2026
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    If you don't know the words to search for, history can feel like it never existed.

    Brooke Palmieri explores how finding queer history requires more than institutions; it takes community knowledge and new ways of looking.

    🎧 Listen & subscribe:
    futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...
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    Future Knowledge | Vanishing Culture #3: Saving Queer Memory with Brooke Palmieri
    Queer history has often been overlooked, erased, or excluded from traditional archives. In the third episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks with writer,...
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    Jul 18, 2026
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    ⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco.

    WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was just a tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, to cash in on the tournament at over 4× the original price. 💸

    Its awfulness has been saved for posterity ⤵️
    archive.org/search?tab=a...

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    Jul 11, 2026
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    🖥️📜 How has the online presentation of the Declaration of Independence changed over nearly 30 years? Compare these Wayback Machine captures of the National Archives webpage.

    It's one of many items we're highlighting as America marks its 250th anniversary.

    🔗 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

    Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "Declaration of Independence on National Archives". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the National Archives Declaration of Independence page from June 6, 1997, and June 4, 2026.
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    Jul 4, 2026
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    🇺🇸 As America marks its 250th anniversary, the Internet Archive is preserving & providing free access to materials documenting the nation’s founding and 250 years of Independence celebrations.

    Get an advance look at what’s coming here! ⤵️

    🔗 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

    #AmericanHistory

    A collage of seven American historical ephemera arranged in a grid: a 19th-century hand-colored map of the United States spans the full top row; below it sit a two-panel teal illustration from a Bell Telephone booklet titled "50 Years of Progress," a narrow 1975 Amtrak Bicentennial Special brochure, and a video still of a man in Western costume with a cowboy hat and red bandana; the bottom row features the title page of an 1826 oration on American independence, a teal-covered pamphlet from the 1926 National Sesquicentennial Exposition titled "The United States Public Health Service," and the cover of "Valuable Recipes for Cooking Duryeas' Improved Corn Starch" (1876), a trade booklet presented at the Centennial Exposition, featuring an illustration of a classical female figure standing beside a large decorative jug.
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    Jun 29, 2026
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    🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, COMPOSITION OF CIRCLES AND OVERLAPPING ANGLES (1930) 🎨

    🖼️ Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s vibrant geometric abstraction uses circles, diagonals, and bold color to create a dynamic balance of rhythm, movement, and precision.

    See it ➡️ archive.org/details/soph...

    #PublicDomain

    Sophie Taeuber-Arp's 1930 painting Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles.
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    Jul 1, 2026
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    🎞️ In January, @NPR.org covered our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, where filmmakers turned newly public 1930 works into fresh creations. 🎬

    Our winners series has wrapped—a great time to revisit why the public domain fuels creativity.

    🎧 Hear the full story ⤵️
    www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

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    Jul 21, 2026
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    📖 Some folktales are preserved word for word. 🗣️ Others adapt to help communities make sense of the present.

    🌍 In this Future Knowledge episode, scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs explore African storytelling and how culture is preserved.

    🎧 Listen ⤵️
    futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...
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    Jul 23, 2026
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    🍲 A cookbook isn't just recipes. It's handwritten notes, grease stains, clippings, and memories.

    Katie Livingston examines why preserving everyday culture matters, on the #FutureKnowledge podcast special #VanishingCulture series.

    🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

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    Jul 11, 2026
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    🎨 Georgia O'Keeffe's THE FLAG (1918) is a striking watercolor painted during World War I.

    It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸

    Learn more: blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

    #Americanhistory

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    Jul 3, 2026
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    🎬 That's a wrap on our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest retrospective!

    This supercut stitches together highlights from this year's entries, showing how filmmakers transformed #publicdomain films, books, cartoons, music, and more from 1930 into something new.

    ▶️ archive.org/details/2026...

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    Wonder how websites, books, government info & digital history are preserved?

    Subscribe to the Internet Archive's #EmpoweringLibraries newsletter for updates on the Wayback Machine, digital preservation, upcoming events, and the people working behind the scenes.

    ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/07/17/k...

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    Power outage in San Francisco took archive.org offline overnight. We’re back!

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    🎬 In 1975, John Wayne urged Americans to celebrate the upcoming Bicentennial by investing in U.S. Savings Bonds.

    It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸

    Learn more ⤵️
    blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

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    🗂️ History isn't just what institutions preserve. It's also what communities save.

    Brooke Palmieri explains much of queer history survives because individuals & communities recognized its value when larger institutions didn't.

    🎧 Listen & subscribe:
    futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...
    🧵

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    ☎️📖 At Philadelphia’s 1926 Sesquicentennial (150 years) Exposition, the Bell Telephone System celebrated 50 years of the telephone with a booklet written from the telephone’s first-person perspective.

    🇺🇸 See more American highlights in our blog 👇
    blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

    #AmericanHistory

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