Category Archives: Wayback Machine – Web Archive

The Whole Earth Web Archive

Posted on October 30, 2019 by jefferson

As part of the many releases and announcements for our October Annual Event, we created The Whole Earth Web Archive. The Whole Earth Web Archive (WEWA) is a proof-of-concept to explore ways to improve access to the archived websites of … Continue reading →

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Weaving Books into the Web—Starting with Wikipedia

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Brewster Kahle

[announcement video, Wired] The Internet Archive has transformed 130,000 references to books in Wikipedia into live links to 50,000 digitized Internet Archive books in several Wikipedia language editions including English, Greek, and Arabic. And we are just getting started. By … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Partners with University of Edinburgh to Provide Historical Web Data Supporting Machine Translation

Posted on June 19, 2019 by jefferson

The Internet Archive will provide portions of its web archive to the University of Edinburgh to support the School of Informatics’ work building open data and tools for advancing machine translation, especially for low-resource languages. Machine translation is the process … Continue reading →

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Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex Karaoke! — Tuesday, March 6

Posted on February 15, 2018 by jefferson

The Internet Archive presents the first ever Military Powerpoint Karaoke: a night of “Powerpoint Karaoke” using presentations in the Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex collection at archive.org that were extracted by the Internet Archive from its public web archive and converted into … Continue reading →

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30 Days of Stuff

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, free-range archivist, reporting in as 2017 draws to a close. As part of our end-of-year fundraising drive, I thought it might be fun to tweet highlighted parts of the vast stacks of content that the Internet Archive makes … Continue reading →

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The 20th Century Time Machine

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Nancy Watzman & Katie Dahl With the turn of a dial, some flashing lights, and the requisite puff of fog, emcees Tracey Jaquith, TV Architect, and Jason Scott, Free Range Archivist, cranked up the Internet Archive 20th Century Time … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive to help First Draft News debunk fake news

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with First Draft News, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to ferreting out misinformation online. In its short existence–it was founded in June 2015–First Draft News has already spearheaded innovative projects that bring together … Continue reading →

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If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Alexis Rossi

In recent days many people have shown interest in making sure the Wayback Machine has copies of the web pages they care about most. These saved pages can be cited, shared, linked to – and they will continue to exist even after the original page … Continue reading →

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Robots.txt Files and Archiving .gov and .mil Websites

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Alexis Rossi

The Internet Archive is collecting webpages from over 6,000 government domains, over 200,000 hosts, and feeds from around 10,000 official federal social media accounts. Some have asked if we ignore URL exclusions expressed in robots.txt files. The answer is 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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