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…

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

Who gets to own what we create?

On Educating to Be Human, host Lisa Petrides talks with Internet Archive Senior Policy Counsel Lila Bailey about the tension between knowledge as a shared cultural commons & knowledge controlled through copyright, licensing, and corporate platforms.

They also examine what public knowledge infrastructure could look like, including AI tools built and supported by libraries, schools, and civic institutions.

🎧 Listen to WHO OWNS KNOWLEDGE with Lila Bailey:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/who…

@EdutobeHuman

In 2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the @internetarchive kept the receipts.

From investigations by @NewYorker and @nytimes to video features from the @BBC and @CNN, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s ttles.

blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/top…

Full list of press mentions for 2025: archive.org/about/news-sto…

🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do those go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these records are digitized at the Physical Archive tour!

It's a once-a-year opportunity to witness preservation processes up 🕕 6–8 PM
📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/1997613506773

The Internet Archive building is 103 years old, but it still looks like it did in 1923. 🏛️ Built as the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, the Internet Archive purchased it in 2009. Same building, totally different mission. 📚

The Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon featured it in es. See it and more historic San Francisco photos ⤵️
richmondsunsetnews.com/?s=then+and+now

@RichmondSunset

“Fix the Wayback Machine!”

We’ve heard you. The @waybackmachine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. @MarkGraham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it.

➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-…

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 @waybackmachine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

Dealing with a power outage.

Apologies for the disruption in service.

Builders: here’s a chance to make something new from a massive public archive.

Internet Archive Canada @internetarcCA is offering a $5,000 fellowship to build new tools using 22M+ pages of open Canadian government publications.

Applications close Aug. 21 → bc-ai.ca/fellowship

🌐 The web changes daily. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️

38% of URLs that existed just 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web.

Internet Archive's @MarkGraham & @chrisfreeland on why preserving our digital record can't be an afterthought, with Nathan J. Robinson of @curo/VLg3vUnNHg

#WaybackMachine @waybackmachine

Musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel sent a special congratulatory message to Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, on being honored as a 2026 Computer History Museum Fellow at the April 25 gala ceremony.

In his message, Gabriel e of preserving and sharing knowledge, work that has defined Kahle’s vision for the Internet Archive.

Watch Gabriel’s message and more on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/05/20/bre…

#BrewsterKahle #InternetArchive #ComputerHistoryMuseum #CHMFellows #DigitalPreservation #WaybackMachine #PeterGabriel @itspetergabriel @Brewster_Kahle

Several local newspaper companies — USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local, MediaNews Group, and Tribune Publishing — have begun blocking @internetarchive's access.

That's more than 340 U.S. local news sites in all, a new @NiemanLab analysis by @decka227 and @HanaaTameez shows.

Tell the publishers to stop blocking @waybackmachine 🚫🕳️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

🧵 1️⃣/5️⃣ Announcing Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge 🇨🇭🌍

Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded Internet Archive with one goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. That mission expands with the launch of Internet Archive ernet Archive Switzerland ➡️ internetarchive.ch

Publishers fighting AI companies are increasingly colliding with web preservation systems ⚖️

In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mike Masnick examines how attempts to block AI scraping can restrict access to vital archiving tools like the Wayback Machine, creating collateral ecord.

🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/prese…

#WaybackMachine #AI #WebArchive #FutureKnowledge @mmasnick

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️

Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.

Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.

✍️ savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

This letter about OpenAI was just sent to me.

These seem like concerns worth investigating.

gist.github.com/Xe/32d7bc436e4…

The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional is one of the most studied decisions in American history. But the briefs filed in Brown v. Board of Education reveal dimensions that the opinion alone does not capture.

Those le to everyone on the Internet Archive, thanks to the Wolf Law Library at @WMLawSchool.

Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s…

When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️

But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.

That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanish…
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#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #BookTwitter