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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.

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2026-09-19 17:02:01 UTC

📚 What happens when a library doesn’t just preserve knowledge, but gives people the tools to use it, build with it & participate in creating what comes next?
Find out at Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation, an IN-PERSON Internet Archive event. It's our annual extravaganza with food trucks, entertainment, a presentation, and dancing in the streets.
📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
A livestream event is available, too!
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2026-09-18 21:00:54 UTC

📖 There’s still time to support the Internet Archive and Better World Books “For the Love of Books” campaign! 📖
Join us through October 31, 2026, by donating to the Internet Archive to support literacy and preservation for generations to come.
Donate Today: https://donate.archive.org/campaign/838534/donate
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2026-09-17 23:00:42 UTC

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The report connects to broader questions about preserving the web. In “Digital Ghosts,” Dr. Andrea Kocsis used interactive and visual works to examine link decay, curatorial bias, crisis archiving, and the disappearance of online music cultures.
#LocalNews #WebArchives

2026-09-17 23:00:41 UTC

Local news preservation takes ongoing collaboration. 📰
The Internet Archive’s National Summit on Local News Preservation brought journalists, librarians, archivists, and researchers together to develop recommendations and next steps for preserving local news. The resulting report is a starting point for continued work.
Learn more 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/localnewsreport/
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2026-09-17 13:03:48 UTC

🏛️ Once a year, the Physical Archive opens its doors for a rare behind-the-scenes tour! On Oct. 20, see preserved collections up close, visit demo stations & join digital librarian Brewster Kahle for insightful tours inside the facility.
Don't miss out.
📆 Tues, Oct 20
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 Richmond, CA
🎟️ & Details ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
@funcheapsf
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2026-09-17 00:10:27 UTC

JUST ADDED: Tonight’s Negativland concert at the Internet Archive is sold out, but you can still join us online!
The livestream begins at 6:30pm PT and will only be available during the show. At the band’s request, there will be no replay.
Watch live ➡️ https://youtube.com/live/qiQ39fMN-vU

2026-09-16 13:01:36 UTC

Government information was meant to be distributed, & libraries play a key role in making the public record available to everyone.
On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Merrilee Proffitt of Democracy’s Library at the Internet Archive, James Jacobs of Stanford University, & Christopher Marcum of the Federation of American Scientists discuss why preserving government information matters in the digital age.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-fight-for-the-public-record
#democracyslibrary @npub12cv…376n
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2026-09-15 23:00:54 UTC

GIFs became a defining part of the early web, including the ubiquitous “under construction” signs that marked unfinished pages. JD Shadel looks at what these fleeting images can teach us about preserving digital culture before it disappears.
📚 Read 'What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture' in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/159/
#Bookstodon #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive
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2026-09-15 21:01:58 UTC

🌐 The internet doesn’t remember everything. Websites disappear, links decay & digital traces change over time.
CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” looks at how creative visualization can make online decay visible, asking what digital disappearance means for cultural memory.
Dr. Andrea Kocsis of The University of Edinburgh leads this webinar, developed with multimedia artist Dorsey Kaufmann.
📅 Weds Oct 7
🕗 8 AM PT
🎟️ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wvhj-v7WQS2IWn3RQbCTtg#/registration
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2026-09-15 15:15:22 UTC

“Fix the Wayback Machine!”
We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/
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2026-09-12 14:02:10 UTC

🚨🔥 Tickets are close to selling out! If you want to experience Negativland live in San Francisco, now’s the time to get yours. This rare appearance brings Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive to the Internet Archive for one unforgettable night.
📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/
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2026-09-11 01:58:04 UTC

🌐 It's our annual event! Celebrate the Wayback Machine & other Internet Archive tools that help preserve, explore, share & build knowledge together.
From saving materials to exploring government records, researching history & building tools with collections & APIs, these tools turn a shared library into a place where everyone can participate.
Join us IN PERSON for Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation
📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
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2026-09-11 00:00:55 UTC

You can listen to thousands of hours of Negativland’s Over The Edge on the Internet Archive. But you can’t experience this LIVE performance from home.
In 2015, we preserved 4,000+ hours of the legendary radio program. Now see Negativland IN PERSON.
📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM
📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/
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2026-09-09 13:02:43 UTC

Public data needs more than preservation. It needs to remain usable. 🏛️
In THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD, Christopher Marcum of the Federation of American Scientists joins Merrilee Proffitt of Democracy’s Library at the Internet Archive & James Jacobs of Stanford University for a Future Knowledge #podcast conversation about how civic society can preserve threatened government data & make it useful to the public.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-fight-for-the-public-record
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2026-09-08 23:01:40 UTC

🌐 Web archives are never complete. What happens when the gaps, biases & disappearances become part of the story?
CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” is a webinar featuring Dr. Andrea Kocsis of The University of Edinburgh.
On Oct. 7 at 8 AM PT, she’ll share five interactive works that make the web’s temporality & fragility visible, from link decay to disappearing online music cultures.
✍️ Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wvhj-v7WQS2IWn3RQbCTtg#/registration
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2026-09-08 19:05:31 UTC

Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web.
Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: https://wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

2026-09-08 15:47:09 UTC

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Read Nomura's essay and many more in Vanishing Culture.
#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #ComputingHistory #TextileHistory
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2026-09-08 15:47:08 UTC

Knitting machine punch cards are a living form of computing history. 🧶💾
In “Punch Card Knitting,” Nichole Misako Nomura explores how these physical forms of binary code are still used today, and the challenges of preserving them for future use.
📚 Read “Punch Card Knitting” in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.
📖 Download FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/144/
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2026-09-08 14:02:20 UTC

🔥 Tickets are going fast for this rare Negativland live performance in San Francisco! Don’t miss Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive, a one-of-a-kind evening of sound collage, humor & experimentation at the Internet Archive.
📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM
📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/
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2026-09-05 17:00:43 UTC

🧩 A math puzzle. 🚗 A solar car. 🌪️ Natural-disaster insurance. ⚡ Electricity oversupply in Kyushu.
These were four very different questions put to ClimateGPT 4.3, a specialized climate model, during a recent Internet Archive tour. The results were a mix of useful answers, wrong turns & outright refusals.
📖 Learn more about the experiment ➡️ https://erasmus.ai/?p=875
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2026-09-04 21:00:53 UTC

We’ve teamed up with Better World Books for a brand new initiative, “For the Love of Books.”
Join us now through October 31, 2026, to pledge your support to preserve millions of books while promoting reading and environmental sustainability. 📚❤️
Make your donation here: https://donate.archive.org/campaign/838534/donate
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2026-09-04 18:02:05 UTC

If you see something, save something.
Web pages disappear every day. 🕳️ They change, move, get deleted—or simply get forgotten.
Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears.
See something worth keeping?
Save it today. ➡️ https://web.archive.org/save/
#ToolsYouCanUse
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2026-09-04 13:03:09 UTC

Negativland LIVE at Internet Archive!
For more than 40 years, Negativland has turned found sound, radio & mass media into provocative art. Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive brings that to life in San Francisco!
📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM
📍 IN-PERSON, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/
#sfevents
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2026-09-04 00:30:19 UTC

For many artists, a website is more than a portfolio. It’s a record of a life’s work, built over decades, & something they want future generations to find.
CARTA is helping preserve more than 50 artists’ websites, many by Latinx artists, so their work can survive technical failures, lost hosting & more.
Learn more on our blog👇
https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/25/artistswebsites/
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2026-09-02 23:01:08 UTC

🏛️ Democracy invites participation; democracies require it.
What can libraries do to make that participation possible? At our Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation event, we’ll explore how preserving knowledge, opening access & giving people tools to learn, research & contribute can strengthen our ability to participate in civic life.
Join us IN PERSON!
📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
Can’t attend? A livestream event is available, too!
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2026-09-02 21:01:29 UTC

🧩 Ever play THE IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ? This maddening Flash game is a snapshot of the weird, inventive web culture that flourished in the 2000s. Its preservation shows why saving Flash matters: creations that once defined everyday web culture can otherwise disappear. 🖥️
🎮 Thanks to Flash preservation, you can play it on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/impossible-quiz-deluxe-newgrounds
#Flash #Gaming #VanishingCulture
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2026-09-02 13:03:27 UTC

What we read today was shaped by economic forces that transformed publishing decades ago. 📚
In BIG FICTION on the Future Knowledge #podcast, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin explains how consolidation, new distribution systems & chain bookstores created the conditions for a new publishing model, in conversation with humanities scholar Ted Underwood.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big-fiction
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2026-09-01 20:00:42 UTC

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2️⃣/2️⃣ "Flash is everywhere, and nowhere," writes Scott. "But thanks to the Archive's emulation, Flash lives again."
#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory
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2026-09-01 20:00:42 UTC

Flash was once the playground of the web: games, animations & experiments made by anyone with an idea. 💻 Preserving those creations helps recover a lost chapter of culture.
In “Why Preserve Flash?”, Internet Archive archivist Jason Scott explores why Flash matters & why its preservation is vital.
📖 Download & read, FREE from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/141/
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2026-08-31 13:01:59 UTC

For more than 40 years, Negativland has challenged conventions around media, copyright & culture.
Now, for a rare live appearance, they bring Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive to the Internet Archive in San Francisco! Seating is limited!
📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM
📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/
#sfevents
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2026-08-31 00:00:35 UTC

🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs brought people together to learn, trade software, share ideas & explore the rapidly changing world of personal computing. 💾
A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a remarkable time capsule of that world. These newsletters & many more for Atari, Apple II, Texas Instruments computers & other platforms are available in Internet Archive collections. 📚
More on. our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-history-time-capsule/
#RetroComputing
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2026-08-30 16:01:57 UTC

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, SIMULTANEOUS COUNTER-COMPOSITION (1930) 🎨🇳🇱
🖼️ Theo van Doesburg’s geometric abstraction is associated with De Stijl, the influential movement he helped shape.
See it ➡️ https://archive.org/details/simultaneous-counter-composition-1930
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2026-08-30 16:01:57 UTC

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Van Doesburg’s embrace of diagonal lines famously put him at odds with Piet Mondrian, whose De Stijl compositions favored strict horizontal & vertical lines. Their artistic disagreement helped mark a split within the movement.
This conflict was the subject of “BATTLE LINES,” the 2nd Place 🥈 winner of the 2026 Internet Archive Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎬
Watch the short film here ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/20260108_20260108_0507
#PublicDomain

2026-08-29 17:01:03 UTC

The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things.
You can:
🔖 Save something before it disappears.
🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed.
✍️ Improve or contribute to a collection.
🤝 Connect with people doing the work of preservation.
Over the next eight weeks, we'll show you how.
SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
#ToolsYouCanUse
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2026-08-29 03:00:32 UTC

What does it mean to participate in a library?
🔖 You could save a webpage before it disappears. 📚 Improve a book record. 🔎 Discover a government document. 📣 Share a collection. 🏛️ Help preserve your community’s digital history.
The Internet Archive has tools to do all this & more.
Over the next 8 weeks, we’ll show you how.
SAVE → DISCOVER → CONTRIBUTE → CONNECT
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
#ToolsYouCanUse
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2026-08-28 21:00:49 UTC

🏛️ Government websites can change or disappear overnight, taking public records with them. 🕳️ That’s why libraries have collaborated on the End of Term Web Archive since 2004, preserving U.S. government websites at every presidential transition.
📚 The latest crawl captured petabytes of material, including 2 million videos.
The End of Term Web Archive is Democracy’s Library in action.
https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/24/archiving-democracy-how-the-u-s-end-of-term-web-archive-preserves-government-history/
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2026-08-28 00:00:58 UTC

Negativland’s infamous U2 parody sparked a landmark fight over fair use & artistic freedom.
Hear the group whose work helped shape that conversation, live at the Internet Archive!
📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM
📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/
#funcheapsf #SFevents
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2026-08-27 16:38:16 UTC

What if the rules meant to stop AI scraping also stopped us from saving the web?
The future of the open web is being debated this week in a conference room in London.
How can you help? Get informed ⤵️
https://cdt.org/insights/will-the-open-internet-survive-the-war-on-bots-mapping-the-debate-over-ai-preferences/

2026-08-26 23:01:13 UTC

🕳️ What happens when an entire TV network nearly disappears from history?
📺 The DuMont Network pioneered television with firsts that shaped the medium, yet much of its legacy is gone forever.
Taylor Cole Miller explores how one of America's most innovative TV networks became one of its greatest preservation tragedies, and why archives matter. 🗄️
📚 Read or download "The DuMont Network: America’s Vanishing Television History" in VANISHING CULTURE:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/85/
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2026-08-26 23:01:13 UTC

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🛒 Need a physical media fix? Purchase Vanishing Culture in print:
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new
#Bookstodon #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive
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2026-08-26 16:02:03 UTC

🌐 With 370+ campers & 350+ sessions & activities, there was no way to experience everything at DWeb Camp. That’s part of the point: JOMO, the joy of missing out.
On Aug. 27, hear about projects & takeaways from Camp with Matthew Hodgson, Arushi Bandi & Alaska.
📅 Thurs. Aug. 27
🕙 10 AM PT / 19 CET
📍VIRTUAL
🎟️ Register: https://tix.dod.ngo/dwebcamp/virtualmeetup-aug2026/
#DWeb
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2026-08-26 13:01:50 UTC

📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can actually be the product of a system.
In BIG FICTION, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues that books are often shaped by a much larger industrial system: agents, editors, marketers, wholesalers & others whose decisions can affect the words on the page.
Hear Sinykin in conversation with humanities scholar Ted Underwood on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big-fiction
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2026-08-25 20:56:34 UTC

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/
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2026-08-22 21:00:25 UTC

🤖 Long before computers became commonplace, people were fascinated by the idea of machines that could think, talk, and act on their own.
From ELIZA to Little Computer People, early software used clever coding to create the illusion of intelligence, personality, and autonomy.
Our new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection brings together emulated software from the 1970s–90s that explored what it might be like to have machines that think.
🔎 Explore the collection: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/
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2026-08-21 18:01:03 UTC

🎉 JOIN US IN PERSON! Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation is this year's Internet Archive annual extravaganza. We're celebrating the tools that help us preserve, explore, share & build knowledge together.
📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM
🕔 5 PM: Tech demos, entertainment and food trucks 🌮
🕖 7 PM: Program in our Great Room 🎤
🕗 8 PM: Dancing in the streets 💃🕺
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
Can’t attend in person? A livestream ticket is also available. 📡
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2026-08-21 00:00:53 UTC

✒️ From ancient scripts to avant-garde typography, the Letterform Archive collection at the Internet Archive preserves the art and history of letterforms.
Browse thousands of digitized artifacts from typography, graphic design, calligraphy, and the letter arts.👇
https://archive.org/details/letterformarchive
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2026-08-20 22:00:59 UTC

📚🎵🎞️ Go behind the scenes at the Physical Archive! Join us IN PERSON Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6–8 PM in Richmond, CA, for a special tour of the preserved collections of books, music, film & video.
This happens only once a year, making it a rare chance to see the collections up close & learn how materials move from donation & preservation to digitization & access.
Sign up ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
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2026-08-20 15:00:55 UTC

📻 On National Radio Day, we celebrate the deep history of radio. From pulp heroes to breaking news to ham radio enthusiasts, it's a medium built for community. 📡
Tune into radio history in our collections: https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
#NationalRadioDay
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2026-08-19 22:02:05 UTC

Fair use is not a loophole in copyright. It is a core principle that helps creativity, education, and culture thrive. ⚖️📖
In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi explain how understanding copyright's balance make it easier for creators, educators, librarians, and researchers to confidently use their rights. ✍️🏛️
In conversation with Dave Hansen on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/reclaiming-fair-use
@npub17kr…p88t [@paufder](https://scholar.social/@paufder )
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2026-08-19 13:01:35 UTC

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3️⃣/3️⃣ The celebration starts Tuesday, Oct. 20! Join us IN PERSON at the Physical Archive in Richmond, CA, from 6–8 PM for a behind-the-scenes look at books, music, film & video collections, from donation & preservation to digitization & access.
Register for the events today!
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2026-08-19 13:01:35 UTC

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2️⃣/3️⃣ On Wednesday, Oct. 21, celebrate “Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation” at Internet Archive HQ in San Francisco or from wherever you are via livestream. We’ll spotlight the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive tools, & creators building with our collections & APIs.

2026-08-19 13:01:34 UTC

Registration is OPEN! 🎉 Join us for Internet Archive’s annual celebration.
“Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation,” is happening Oct. 21 in San Francisco or via livestream. And Oct. 20, join us IN PERSON for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Physical Archive in Richmond.
Learn more & sign up ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/
🧵 More ⬇️
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2026-08-19 02:00:35 UTC

What better place for Negativland to perform than the Internet Archive?
Negativland’s U2 parody sparked a landmark legal battle. Later, we partnered to preserve more than 4,000 hours of Over The Edge, Negativland’s legendary freeform radio program.
Join us for Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive, an evening of sound, humor & experimentation rooted in the long fight for fair use.
Join us IN-PERSON!
📅 Wed, Sept 16 at 6 PM
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/
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2026-08-19 00:30:15 UTC

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VANISHING CULTURE explores why preserving our fragile cultural record matters, including the everyday objects history often overlooks. ✍️🗂️
🛒 Want a copy on your bookshelf? Purchase in print:
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new
#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive @npub1rhy…u5ma #bookstodon
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2026-08-19 00:30:14 UTC

Most printed ephemera wasn't intended to last.
Writer & book artist Eve Scarborough shares what she's learned cataloging type ephemera at Letterform Archive, where fragile paper goods preserve the fingerprints, doodles, & traces of the people who made and used them.
📚 Read or download "Type Ephemera: Lessons in Endearment" in VANISHING CULTURE:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/63/
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2026-08-17 16:57:22 UTC

Update from @npub1ftl…3e6s about last night's outage: "We are still bringing up the upload feature, but otherwise we are live and kicking." More here ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/service-restored-from-overnight-power-outage/

2026-08-13 23:01:07 UTC

Vintage matchbox labels and other everyday ephemera offer a window into the styles, products, and aspirations of bygone eras.
These Soviet matchbox covers come from the "Atoms for Peace" movement. One promotes nuclear technology's promise for medicine, the other its role in industrial chemistry and manufacturing.
Find these and many more fascinating items in the Matchbox Posters Archive on the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/matchboxpostersarchive
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2026-08-12 13:04:08 UTC

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#copyright #fairuse [@paufder](https://scholar.social/@paufder ) @npub1umd…wfr7 @npub17kr…p88t

2026-08-12 13:04:07 UTC

💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it's preserved.
In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi join Dave Hansen to show how communities can confidently exercise fair use.
Example: after the dance community developed a Code of Best Practices, archives began sharing excerpts of historic performance footage online. 🎞️
Hear their conversation on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/reclaiming-fair-use
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2026-08-11 23:01:19 UTC

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Preserving 78rpm discs helps ensure future generations can hear the joys, struggles, voices, and sounds that shaped the 20th century.
🛒 Purchase Vanishing Cultute in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new
#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon
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2026-08-11 23:01:18 UTC

Nearly half of recorded history lives on fragile 78rpm discs. 🎙️🎶
From music and comedy to speeches & firsthand accounts of world events, these recordings transformed what future generations could know about the past.
For decades, 78rpm records were how people shared performance, culture, and ideas across the globe. 🎺🎷
George Blood explains why preserving them matters.
Read “On 78s” and much more in VANISHING CULTURE.
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/114/
🧵1️⃣/2️⃣
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2026-08-11 19:52:30 UTC

Builders: here’s a chance to make something new from a massive public archive.
Internet Archive Canada is offering a $5,000 fellowship to build new tools using 22M+ pages of open Canadian government publications.
Applications close Aug. 21 → https://bc-ai.ca/fellowship

2026-08-08 17:01:35 UTC

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2️⃣/2️⃣
Hosted by Dave Hansen & Chris Freeland, this conversation with Vida Vojić and Alice Bridgwood brings together lessons from the series, from community archives and endangered languages to the changing ways culture is created, shared, and preserved.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE for free or purchase in print:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
#VanishingCulture #FutureKnowledge #InternetArchive #podcast @npub17kr…p88t

2026-08-08 17:01:34 UTC

💾 Culture is increasingly shaped by platforms we don’t control.
In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, the final episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series Vanishing Culture, series host Vida Vojić reflects on living in an age where access, ownership, and memory are increasingly mediated by platforms.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-6-what-weve-learned-with-vida-vojic-alice-bridgwood
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2026-08-06 23:01:00 UTC

🚤🌊 Nancy Drew's lakeside adventure takes a dangerous turn in this clip from a LibriVox reading of the 1930 public domain classic, THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY. 🔍
📚It's just one of tens of thousands of free public domain audiobooks in the LibriVox Audio Collection on the Internet Archive. From mysteries and adventures to poetry, history, science fiction, and children's classics, there's always something new to hear. 🎧
Find your next audio adventure 👇
https://archive.org/details/librivoxaudio
#Bookstodon #LibriVox
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2026-08-05 13:01:42 UTC

📚 The cultures most at risk of vanishing are often created and sustained by communities with the fewest resources.
In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, the final episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series Vanishing Culture, producer Alice Bridgwood reflects on how handwritten cookbooks, homemade zines, and other everyday archives preserve histories that might otherwise be lost.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-6-what-weve-learned-with-vida-vojic-alice-bridgwood
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2026-08-05 13:01:42 UTC

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2️⃣/2️⃣
Hosted by Dave Hansen & Chris Freeland, this conversation with Vida Vojić and Alice Bridgwood looks back on six episodes about cookbooks, queer archives, African folktales, gaming history, endangered languages, and the people preserving them.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE for free or purchase in print:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
#VanishingCulture #FutureKnowledge #InternetArchive #podcast @npub17kr…p88t
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2026-08-05 00:45:06 UTC

🎤 STARTING IN 15 MINUTES! 🆓
Join us soon for a free livestream booktalk with author Simone O. Elias in conversation with Sonia Mansfield about Elias's new book, PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN.
🕕 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET
📡 Join the #livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qqvHKA
#Bookstodon
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2026-08-03 22:01:09 UTC

Aruba’s digital heritage collection now holds nearly 180,000 items for a community of just 110,000 people. 📚🌎
In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing of Biblioteca Nacional Aruba shares how Coleccion Aruba is preserving Papiamento, cultural memory, and the stories carried through language.
It's part of the Future Knowledge #podcast's special series #VanishingCulture.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-5-a-language-worth-saving-with-peter-scholing
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2026-08-03 14:41:18 UTC

NPR: How long will the Grateful Dead's songs survive? https://www.npr.org/2026/08/03/nx-s1-5901986/grateful-dead-future-legacy
Internet Archive: For generations to come. ➡️ https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead
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2026-08-02 13:01:10 UTC

🗓️ Planning your week?
🎤 Join us for the #booktalk PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN with Simone O. Elias & Sonia Mansfield.
Hear why Elias chose to bypass a traditional publisher for her second book, opting instead for an open-access release through the Internet Archive.
📅 Tues Aug 4
Livestream:
🕕 6 PM PT
📡 https://www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qqvHKA
In-Person:
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM PT
📍 300 Funston, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/
#InternetArchive #OpenAccess #booktalk
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2026-08-01 17:01:12 UTC

📚 Digital preservation isn't only about protecting collections. It's also about making knowledge accessible.
In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING from the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Peter Scholing shares how the National Library of Aruba is using digitization to overcome geographic barriers and reconnect communities with historical records.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-5-a-language-worth-saving-with-peter-scholing
#FutureKnowledge
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2026-08-01 13:01:10 UTC

🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built.
Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine:
https://web.archive.org
#Wayback1T #InternetArchive #WorldWideWebDay @npub1sy2…wuw5
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2026-08-01 10:07:04 UTC

🌐 Happy World Wide Web Day!
Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the World Wide Web transformed how we share knowledge online. In 2025, Sir Tim was honored as an Internet Archive Hero Award recipient for his lasting impact on the web.
Learn more 👇
https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/celebrating-sir-tim-berners-lee-2025-internet-archive-hero-award-recipient/
#WorldWideWebDay #InternetArchive #Wayback1T
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2026-07-31 21:00:43 UTC

📖 At just 16 years old, Simone O. Elias wrote PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN.
Her book explores femininity, culture, history, mental health, and the pressures shaping a generation.
Elias chose to publish it as an #openaccess book, making it FREE through the Internet Archive!
🆓 Read & download:
https://archive.org/details/porcelain-rage/PorcelainRage_Ack/
And Learn more about Elias, her book, and the Aug 4 #booktalk with livestream 📡 & in-person 🎟️ options at our blog:
https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/
#Bookstodon
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2026-07-30 23:00:55 UTC

🌈 The year is 2010. 🎶 "Always" by Erasure is blasting as you mash the Z key ⌨️ in pursuit of a new high score 🏆 all while living your best sparkly robot unicorn life 🦄✨.
While we can't actually time travel 🤖, ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK is still playable thanks to digital preservation & emulation via Ruffle.
Flash may be gone 👋, but your favorite internet games don't have to be. 🌐
Play it today on the Internet Archive ⤵️
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2026-07-29 16:45:42 UTC

📚 Digital preservation isn't just about the future. Sometimes it's what keeps education going in a crisis.
When the pandemic closed schools & libraries, students studying Papiamento needed access to books for their exams. In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing shares how librarians, authors & the @npub1umd…wfr7 made those texts available online. Part of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-5-a-language-worth-saving-with-peter-scholing
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2026-07-28 23:00:45 UTC

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2️⃣/3️⃣ 📖 Read PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN by Elias for FREE!
The book explores femininity, cultural expectations, mental health, and the challenges facing Gen Z women in the digital age.
Read or download 🆓 on thje Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/porcelain-rage/PorcelainRage_Ack/
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2026-07-28 23:00:45 UTC

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3️⃣/3️⃣ And you can 🎤 Join Elias & author Sonia Mansfield for a free #booktalk on August 4 at the Internet Archive, both in person AND online. With audience Q&A!
📅 Tues Aug 4
Livestream:
🕕 6 PM PT
📡 https://www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qqvHKA
In-Person:
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM PT
📍 300 Funston, SF
🎟️ Link in our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/
#InternetArchive #OpenAccess #booktalk

2026-07-28 23:00:44 UTC

📚 Why would an established author bypass a traditional publisher for their second book?
At 16, Simone O. Elias chose the open-access route for her book PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN, making her reflections on culture, identity, and modern womanhood free and available to everyone through the Internet Archive.
Learn more about Elias & the book:
https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/
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2026-07-28 00:00:38 UTC

Free speech matters. So does the ability to verify what's true.
Without a stable historical record, accountability becomes harder, evidence disappears, and public debate suffers.
Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory is essential to democracy in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY.
📖 Read or download the paper today ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/
#VanishingCulture #memoryhole
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2026-07-27 22:04:44 UTC

📚 Research can uncover stories that even experts never had the chance to find.
🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklorist Laura Gibbs explains how the Internet Archive's full-text search helped her uncover dozens of versions of a folktale, including one published in an early 1900s issue of Good Housekeeping that had escaped generations of scholarship.
🎧 Listen and subscribe ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-4-keeping-african-folktales-alive-with-helen-nde-laura-gibbs
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2026-07-25 17:03:03 UTC

🗣️ Myths & folklore are powerful because they evolve. Understanding those changes depends on preserving the record.
🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklore scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs discuss why repositories like the Internet Archive help people trace how stories and cultural ideas have been interpreted over time.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-4-keeping-african-folktales-alive-with-helen-nde-laura-gibbs
#VanishingCulture #podcast
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2026-07-24 23:01:22 UTC

🎬 That's a wrap on our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest retrospective!
Over the past months, we’ve celebrated every winner, honorable mention, and finalist. To close things out, here’s a bonus remix of remixes!
This supercut stitches together highlights from across this year’s entries, honoring the many ways filmmakers transformed #publicdomain films, books, cartoons, music, and more from 1930 into something entirely new.
▶️ Watch the full remix of remixes at https://archive.org/details/2026-remixes
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2026-07-24 23:00:38 UTC

📚 Culture doesn’t have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️
Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿
In THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory has become one of the defining political challenges of the digital age. 🏛️
📖 Read or download the paper ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/
#VanishingCulture #memoryhole
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2026-07-22 18:46:46 UTC

📖 Some folktales are preserved almost word for word. 🗣️ Others adapt to the needs of the moment, helping communities make sense of the present.
🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklore scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs reflect on the many traditions of African storytelling and what they reveal about how culture is preserved.
🎧 Listen & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-4-keeping-african-folktales-alive-with-helen-nde-laura-gibbs
#VanishingCulture #podcast
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2026-07-21 23:02:57 UTC

📅 It seems like only yesterday…
🎞️ Back in January, NPR covered the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest as filmmakers around the world transformed newly public domain works from 1930 into fresh creations. 🎬
Now that we’ve wrapped our series highlighting this year’s winners, honorable mentions, and finalists, it’s a great time to revisit why the public domain fuels new creativity year after year.
🎧 Hear the full story on All Things Considered ⤵️
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5677702/public-domain-2026-remix-contest-internet-archive-1930
#publicdomain
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2026-07-21 22:00:55 UTC

🌐 Websites vanish. 📰 News archives go offline. 📚 Textbooks are withdrawn. 🏛️ Government reports are deleted.
What happens when the historical record starts disappearing?
The Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement explore why "vanishing culture" is becoming a political crisis in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY.
📖 Read or download the paper here ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/
#VanishingCulture #memoryhole
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2026-07-19 13:02:00 UTC

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The Jules Rimet Cup crowned football's greatest champions from 1930 to 1970. After Brazil was awarded the trophy permanently, it was stolen from the Brazilian Football Confederation's headquarters in 1983 and has never been recovered, making it one of sport's greatest unsolved mysteries.
#WorldCup #FootballHistory #SoccerHistory #ArtDeco #PublicDomain #OpenAccess

2026-07-19 13:01:59 UTC

🎉 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, it depicts Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, holding an octagonal cup aloft.
See it in our collections ➡️ https://archive.org/details/jules-rimet-cup-1930
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2026-07-18 17:02:13 UTC

If you don't know the words to search for, history can feel like it never existed.
Finding and preserving queer history takes more than a catalog. It takes people willing to share knowledge and preserve what others overlook or reject.
On the #FutureKnowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Brooke Palmieri explores why preserving queer memory is a community project.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-3-saving-queer-memory-with-brooke-palmieri
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2026-07-17 21:00:39 UTC

🎬 Why does MOROCCO (1930) still captivate after nearly 100 years?
Filmmaker & scholar Denah Johnston explores the film's enduring appeal in this excerpt from our post-screening Q&A.
Watch the full discussion + much more of our gala Morocco screening event at https://blog.archive.org/2026/06/24/top-hats-tails-and-timeless-cinema-celebrating-marlene-dietrichs-morocco/
#PreCode #PublicDomain
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2026-07-17 00:00:42 UTC

1️⃣/2️⃣ 🇺🇸 As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies looks back to the 1976 Bicentennial through hundreds of California local government publications.
They reveal a state wrestling with housing costs, environmental protection, growth, taxation, and public trust. Many of the debates shaping California today were already unfolding 50 years ago.
Learn more ⤵️
https://igs.berkeley.edu/news/look-back-time-understand-our-present-california-local-government-publications-1976
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2026-07-17 00:00:42 UTC

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2️⃣/2️⃣ These documents are preserved in LoCALDig, the California Local Government Documents Collection at @UCBerkeley, a digital archive created in partnership with @npub1umd…wfr7.
From CEQA planning and BART studies to housing reports and fiscal analyses, the collection preserves the public record that helps explain how California arrived where it is today.
Dig through LoCALDig on the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/instituteofgovernmentalstudieslibrary
#Environment #PublicPolicy #DigitalPreservation
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2026-07-16 23:00:27 UTC

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“I built this passion and got this amazing feeling when my work was making an impact and people were receiving some value.”
“Now, Google Summer of Code is a wonderful opportunity to connect with open-source organizations and Open Library where its work directly impacts people’s lives.”
Tanishq Sangwan is helping Open Library understand where readers encounter barriers and create a better path from discovery to reading. 🌎
#GSOC #SummerOfCode
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2026-07-16 23:00:27 UTC

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“I really care about books being accessible to people. In Nigeria, we have limited access to physical libraries, so Open Library is something that matters. It gives everyone the opportunity to come and read any kind of book and gain insights.”
Chisom Nnamani is helping make books easier to discover by improving Open Library’s genre, subject, and format data. 📖
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2026-07-16 23:00:26 UTC

📚 Millions of books are available through Open Library. The challenge is helping readers find the ones that matter to them.
Google Summer of Code contributors Tanishq Sangwan & Chisom Nnamani are helping Open Library remove barriers to discovery and create a better experience for readers worldwide.
Learn more ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/15/google-summer-of-code-contributors-lead-projects-to-improve-open-library-patron-experience/
🧵1️⃣/3️⃣
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2026-07-15 22:01:15 UTC

🗂️ History isn't just what institutions preserve. It's also what communities save.
Too often, queer history only survives through personal collections, word of mouth, and people who recognize its value when no one else does.
On the #FutureKnowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Brooke Palmieri explores the community effort behind preserving queer memory.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-3-saving-queer-memory-with-brooke-palmieri
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2026-07-14 20:01:56 UTC

CONGRATS AGAIN to “RHAPSODY, REIMAGINED” by Andrea Hale, FIRST PLACE 🥇 in the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Remix Contest.
A dazzling reimagining of King of Jazz (1930) set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue – an aesthetic triumph.
Andrea Hale is an artist working in animation & video editing. Her work emphasizes rhythm, repetition, and texture, using collage to recontextualize culturally established works.
Watch it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/rhapsody-reimagined
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay
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2026-07-14 00:00:44 UTC

More and 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. Current Affairs Magazine talks with @npub1umd…wfr7’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland.
Full interview 🔗 https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-will-save-the-internet-from-disappearing
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