We've been getting a lot of questions lately 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: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/mee…

📽️ #OTD in 1928, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC premiered in France.

For this Public Domain Spotlight, revisit Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent masterpiece, featuring Renée Falconetti in one of cinema’s most celebrated performances.

Watch it at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/the-pa…

👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive!

Today’s treat: THE LAUREL & HARDY MURDER CASE, a 1930 comedy that sends Stan & Ollie to a mysterious mansion, where a murder mystery brings plenty of eerie goings-on. 🕯️🏚️

Then things go batty!🦇

More Spooky Stuff: https://ySeason

GEnie (the General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was founded in 1985 as a dial-up online service that connected users through email, forums, games, and downloads, building a devoted community while competing with CompuServe and AOL. 💿🌐

In 1996, new owners he magic 🧞 for the web era. But the service struggled to keep pace & went up in smoke by Y2K.

Take a trip through web history with the @WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org

#DigitalHistory #InternetHistory #EarlyInternet #DialUpEra

🏛️ The future of the Library of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office is at a turning point. Political upheaval and proposed structural changes could reshape how knowledge is preserved, copyright is governed, and the public accesses creative works.

Join the live Future copyright scholar Blake Reid and CNI executive director Kate Zwaard.

📅 Thurs. Oct. 29
🕙 10 AM PT to 11 AM PT
📍 VIRTUAL
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/the-future-o…

@kzwa

STARTING IN 30 MINUTES!
🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation.

💾 SAVE.
🔎 DISCOVER.
📤 CONTRIBUTE.
🤝 CONNECT.

📡 Livestream
▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=s6TvvG…

#ToolsYouCanUse

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

The internet archive's Wayback Machine library is a planetary treasure. It preserves the archive of the web. Don't let publishers take it down. theatlantic.com/technology/202…

Archive.org is currently offline. We are working to restore service now.

Few government records say more about a democracy than the census. 📚

As debates over the 2030 count continue, historical records show how the U.S. government has counted people and how those practices have changed.

Through Democracy’s Library, the Internet Archive works to tion freely available. Its U.S. Census collection includes digitized records from 1790 to 1930.

Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/10/12/the…

@MerrileeIAm

📅 Tomorrow.

We'll be celebrating the tools that let all of us participate in preserving, discovering, contributing to, and connecting around knowledge.

🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation

🗓️ October 21.

Watch the livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=s6TvvG…

#ToolsYouCanUse

Our annual celebration in San Francisco kicks off this Wednesday with a street fair! 🏛️

Meet the teams behind Internet Archive’s projects and allies, and see live demos of tools for saving web pages, digitizing books, preserving government records, and more.

Learn more & regiQ0a2Ozb

🎟️ Tickets are going fast!

Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive makes the case for web preservation in The Atlantic. 🌐

In The Internet Needs A Memory, Kahle explains why blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI. It will only make the public record harder to preserve.

Read it 👉 theatlantic.com/technology/202…

@Brewster_Kahle @TheAtlantic

#SpookySeason gets a sinister, shadowy visitor. 🦇 In F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922), Count Orlok’s long fingers and eerie silhouette make this landmark of horror cinema a study in unease. 🕯️

Watch it and more Spooky Stuff in the Internet Archive collections here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@iasoc…

The Internet Archive has an entire museum dedicated to the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️

It's called GifCities.

Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first generation of the internet.

Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that somehow survived the decades. 💾
etro GIF.
gifcities.org

#ToolsYouCanUse

🌉 Bay Area friends! Join us in San Francisco for the Internet Archive’s annual celebration, Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation. There’s still time to join us in-person to celebrate the Wayback Machine and the Internet Archive tools we can use to preserve and share 21 • 5–10 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/1998015902349

Can’t make it in person? Join us online via livestream: eventbrite.com/e/1998004770052

@funcheapsf

Amateur radio history survives because people saved it. Much more has been lost in attics, basements, and forgotten files. 📻

Kay Savetz writes about recovering magazines, recordings, manuals, and materials for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. 📚

📚 teur Radio and Communications" by Savetz is in VANISHING CULTURE.

📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vanish…

#Booktwitter

🏛️ Who gets to build the internet we actually want?

On October 27, Internet Archive Canada hosts Open by Design: Tools for Participation in Vancouver, bringing people together for a conversation about the choices behind the systems, tools, and institutions that shape how we ation.

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle will join the evening to share his perspective on where the fight for open knowledge goes next.

📚 Read more & RSVP: internetarchivecanada.org/2026/10/01/ope…

@InternetArcCA

The Internet Archive Hero Award is a work of art! 🏛️

Designer and educator Taekyeom Lee @Taekyeom created a 3D model of the Internet Archive’s San Francisco building to honor those who preserve and share knowledge.

Join us October 21 for this year’s Hero Awards ceremony, nnual celebration!

Learn more about Lee and sign up for the event 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/10/14/bui…

📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷

Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. Courtesy of the #publicdomain.👇
archive.org/details/winnie…