Category Archives: Announcements

No More 404s! Resurrect dead web pages with our new Firefox add-on.

Posted on August 9, 2016 by mark

Have you ever clicked on a web link only to get the dreaded “404 Document not found” (dead page) message? Have you wanted to see what that page looked like when it was alive? Well, now you’re in luck. Recently the Internet Archive … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Wayback Machine | 10 Comments

Microphone Check: Thousands of Hip-Hop Mixtapes at the Archive

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive has been growing an interesting sub-collection of music for the past few months: Hip-Hop Mixtapes. The resulting collection still has a way to go before it’s anywhere near what is out there (limited by bandwidth and a few other … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Music, News | 2 Comments

Wayback Machine captures Melania Trump’s deleted internet bio

Posted on July 28, 2016 by nancyw

Melania Trump’s personal website is now gone from the internet — but is preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine — after a Huffington Post reporter and other news outlets began questioning elements of the would-be First Lady’s biography. Yesterday Christina Wilkie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged 2016 elections, biography, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Snopes.com | 9 Comments

Pokébarbarians at the Gate

Posted on July 27, 2016 by David Rinehart

Millions of people from around the world visit the Internet Archive every day to read books, listen to audio recordings, watch films, use the Wayback Machine to revisit almost half a billion web pages, and much more. Lately, though, we’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | 7 Comments

The Copyright Office is trying to redefine libraries, but libraries don’t want it — Who is it for?

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The Library Copyright Alliance (which represents the American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries) has said it does not want changes, the Society of American Archivists has said it does not want changes. The Internet Archive does not … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | 13 Comments

Is it 1968? Not really — but past convention video clips show controversy

Posted on July 18, 2016 by nancyw

Research by Robin Chin Is it 1968? Many pundits have been asking this question in recent days, in the lead up to what is expected to be a contentious–and some worry about violent–GOP convention in Cleveland, where Donald Trump is expected to … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged Barry Goldwater, Chicago, Cleveland, conventions, Donald Trump, George Romney, Hubert Humphrey, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Mitt Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, police, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, The Sixties, Watergate | 2 Comments

Unlocking Books for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The Internet Archive has been making print materials more accessible to the blind and print disabled for years, but now with Canada’s joining the Marrakesh Treaty, our sister organization, the Internet Archive Canada might be able to serve people in … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Books Archive, News | 2 Comments

Decentralized Web Server: Possible Approach with Cost and Performance Estimates

Posted on June 23, 2016 by brewster

At the first Decentralized Web Summit Tim Berners-Lee asked if a content-addressable peer-to-peer server system scales to the demands of the World Wide Web. This is meant to be a partial answer to a piece of the puzzle. For background, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | 3 Comments

Geez, Now Internet Insurance?

Posted on June 16, 2016 by brewster

We seem to make some people mad. The Internet Archive, a non-profit library, hosts many things. Many, many things. Billions of old webpages, lots of concerts, nostalgia computer games, TV, books, old movies, contributed books, music, and video, and much … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | 6 Comments

Decentralized Web Summit: Towards Reliable, Private, and Fun

Posted on June 16, 2016 by brewster

[See coverage by the NYtimes, Fortune, Boing Boing, other press] More than 300 web architects, activists, archivists and policy makers gathered at the Internet Archive for the first Decentralized Web Summit, where I was honored to share a stage with internet pioneers, Vint Cerf, and … Continue reading →

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Copyright Office’s Proposed Notice and Staydown System Would Force the Internet Archive and Other Platforms to Censor the Web

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Lila Bailey

In May, the US Copyright Office came to San Francisco to hear from various stakeholders about how well Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA is working. The Internet Archive appeared at these hearings to talk about … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | 30 Comments

Web Archiving with National Libraries

Posted on May 26, 2016 by helen

After the Internet Archive started web archiving in the late 1990s, National libraries also took their first steps towards systematic preservation of the web. Over 30 national libraries currently have a web archiving programme. Many among them archive the web … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | 5 Comments

Join us for the first Decentralized Web Summit — June 8-9, in SF

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Wendy Hanamura

The first Decentralized Web Summit is a call for dreamers and builders who believe we can lock the Web open for good. This goal of the Summit (June 8) and Meetup featuring lightning talks and workshops (June 9) is to spark collaboration and … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Event | 10 Comments

The tech powering the Political TV Ad Archive

Posted on May 12, 2016 by danschultz

Ever wonder how we built the Political TV Ad Archive? This post explains what happens back stage — how we are using advanced technology to generate the counts for how many times a particular ad has aired on television, where, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News, Television Archive | Tagged audfprint, duplitron, open data, political ads, television, video | Comments Off

Discover Books Donates Large Numbers of Books

Posted on May 11, 2016 by brewster

Internet Archive is proud to partner with Discover Books, a major used book seller, to help let the stories in books live on. Discover books is donating books that the Internet Archive does not yet own and would have gone … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Books Archive, News | 3 Comments

Reflections on From Clay to the Cloud: The Internet Archive and Our Digital Legacy, a.k.a. The Internet Archive – The Exhibition!

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Caitlin Olson

Photograph by Jason Scott By Carolyn Peter It started with a visit to Nuala Creed’s ceramics studio in Petaluma in the spring of 2014. My interest was piqued as she described “a commission of sculptures for the Internet Archive” that … Continue reading →

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Google Library Project Legal: Let the Robots Read!

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The decade-long legal battle over Google’s massive book scanning project is finally over, and it’s a huge win for libraries and fair use. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Author’s Guild, which had argued … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Books Archive, News | 6 Comments

Truck and Back Again: The Internet Archive Truck Takes a Detour

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Jason Scott

When one of our employees came out of his home over the weekend, he saw an empty parking space. Granted, in San Francisco, that’s a pretty precious thing, but since this empty parking space had held the Internet Archive Truck … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Cool items | 9 Comments

New video shows rich resources available at Political TV Ad Archive

Posted on April 7, 2016 by nancyw

Since our launch on January 22, the Political TV Ad Archive has archived more than 1,080 ads with more than 155,000 airings. We’ve trained hundreds of journalists, students, and other interested members of the public with face-to-face trainings. But much … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The Internet Archive, joined by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Society of American Archivists filed an amicus brief in Fox v. TVEyes on March 23, 2016. In … Continue reading →

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