Category Archives: Announcements

Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Reader Private

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

The history of libraries is one of loss.  The Library of Alexandria is best known for its disappearance. Libraries like ours are susceptible to different fault lines: Earthquakes, Legal regimes, Institutional failure. So this year, we have set a new … Continue reading →

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National Security Letter to Us from FBI Includes Error – How Many Like it were Sent to Others?

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Chris Butler

The Internet Archive, with the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is making public the second National Security Letter (NSL) issued to the Archive in our history (we received our first NSL in 2007 and successfully contested it with help … Continue reading →

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The Internet Arcade becomes an Archive Reality

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Jason Scott

A couple years back, we introduced the Internet Arcade, which enabled people around the world to play a number of Arcade titles from the last 40 years in their browsers, instantly. We’ve also had collections of console games, and a … Continue reading →

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Please: Help Build the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Web Archive

Posted on November 11, 2016 by jefferson

Help us build a web archive documenting reactions to the 2016 Presidential Election. You can submit websites and other online materials, and provide relevant descriptive information, via this simple submission form. We will archive and provide ongoing access to these … Continue reading →

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US Election Results

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

I am a bit shell shocked– I did not think the election would go the way it did.   I want to reassure everyone– we are safe– funding, mission, partners have no reason to change.   I find this reassuring, hopefully you … Continue reading →

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GifCities: The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine

Posted on November 1, 2016 by jefferson

                                  Try the Internet Archive’s animated GIF search engine at GifCities.org!  You can now get your early-web GIF fix and have a fun way to browse … Continue reading →

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Making the Web More Reliable — 20 Years and Counting

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Mark Graham

As a part of our 20th anniversary, here are some highlights about tools and projects, from the Internet Archive, helping to make the web a more reliable infrastructure for supporting our culture and commerce. Launched a new and improved Wayback Machine, … Continue reading →

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Searching Through Everything

Posted on October 26, 2016 by brenton

With over 20 million items in the Internet Archive’s many collections, having a good way to search through them to find exactly what you want is crucial. It is equally important to be able to filter the data in flexible … Continue reading →

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How the Internet Archive is hacking the election

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

There are thirteen days until Election Day — not that we’re counting. In this most bizarre, unruly, terrifying, fascinating election year, the Internet Archive has been in the thick of it. We’re using technology to give journalists, researchers and the public … Continue reading →

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The New Memory Palace

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Caitlin Olson

By Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky      “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing’s biopic, The Imitation Game, 2014 A lot of things … Continue reading →

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Open Library New Features and Fixes

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Jessamyn West

OpenLibrary team has added pages for 200,000 new modern works and rolled out a brigade of fixes and features. Prioritized by feedback from openlibrary patrons, Full-text search through all books hosted on the Internet Archive is back online and is … Continue reading →

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Beta Wayback Machine – Now with Site Search!

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Vinay Goel

For the last 15 years, users of the Wayback Machine have browsed past versions of websites by entering in URLs into the main search box and clicking on Browse History. With the generous support of The Laura and John Arnold … Continue reading →

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SHOWCASE: the GIF Collider at Berkeley Art Museum

Posted on October 23, 2016 by Wendy Hanamura

by Greg Niemeyer, Director, Berkeley Center for New Media Have you ever wondered what happened to all the GIF animations that sparkled in the dawn of the internet? According to artists Greg Niemeyer and Olya Dubatova, they have become part of … Continue reading →

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Defining Web pages, Web sites and Web captures

Posted on October 23, 2016 by Vinay Goel

The Internet Archive has been archiving the web for 20 years and has preserved billions of webpages from millions of websites. These webpages are often made up of, and link to, many images, videos, style sheets, scripts and other web objects. … Continue reading →

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Authors Alliance and Internet Archive Team Up to Make Books Available

Posted on October 22, 2016 by katie

by Michael Wolfe, Executive Director, Authors Alliance To write a book takes time, effort, more often than not, love. Happily, books are built to last, and with the proper stewardship remain relevant, provide insight and information, or entertain for generations. … Continue reading →

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Dewey Defeats Truman, Pence Defeats Kaine

Posted on October 13, 2016 by David Rinehart

  Physicist Niels Bohr may or may not have been thinking about The Chicago Daily Tribune’s famously erroneous 1948 “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline when he wrote, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” In a case of déjà vu … Continue reading →

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Oct 26th Event: Celebrating 20 Years of Archiving the Web

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Wendy Hanamura

          The Web dwells in a never-ending present. It is—elementally—ethereal, ephemeral, unstable, and unreliable.                                         –Jill Lepore, from “The … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive data fuels journalists’ analyses of how TV news shows covered prez debate

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

The presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on September 26 drew an audience of 84 million, shattering records. It was also a first for the Internet Archive, which made data publicly available, for free, on how TV news shows covered … Continue reading →

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Persistent URL Service, purl.org, Now Run by the Internet Archive

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Mark Graham

OCLC and the Internet Archive today announced the results of a year-long cooperation to ensure the future of purl.org. The organizations have worked together to build a new service hosted by the Internet Archive that will manage the persistent URLs and … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive Turns 20!

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Wendy Hanamura

For 20 years, the Internet Archive has been capturing the Web– that amazing universe of images, audio, text and software that forms our shared digital culture.  Now it’s time to celebrate and we’re throwing a party! Please join us for our … Continue reading →

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