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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · Nov 3
Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
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and true to form, they pulled these product images from a web page from 1998
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🎁 Looking for a unique gift for an archivist—or a treat for yourself?

👕 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Jersey (LIMITED EDITION)
🧢 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Hat (LIMITED EDITION)
🧦 Socks, tote bags, and more!

💛 All proceeds benefit the #InternetArchive.
Shop here ➡️ store.archive.org
A white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes featuring the words Internet Archive in script lettering across the chest. It has black trim on the sleeves and a button-up front. The back of a white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes displaying the number 10 with a small 12 above it, and the words WEB PAGES printed below in bold black lettering, representing 10 to the 12th power web pages preserved. A white baseball cap with a black brim and maroon accents, featuring a front patch that displays the Internet Archive logo and the words “Universal Access to All Knowledge” and “Internet Archive.”
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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🎁 Looking for a unique gift for an archivist—or a treat for yourself?

👕 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Jersey (LIMITED EDITION)
🧢 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Hat (LIMITED EDITION)
🧦 Socks, tote bags, and more!

💛 All proceeds benefit the #InternetArchive.
Shop here ➡️ store.archive.org
A white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes featuring the words Internet Archive in script lettering across the chest. It has black trim on the sleeves and a button-up front. The back of a white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes displaying the number 10 with a small 12 above it, and the words WEB PAGES printed below in bold black lettering, representing 10 to the 12th power web pages preserved. A white baseball cap with a black brim and maroon accents, featuring a front patch that displays the Internet Archive logo and the words “Universal Access to All Knowledge” and “Internet Archive.”
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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It’s Final Draw day for World Cup 26! ⚽️
Decades of FIFA & #WorldCup - related sites are preserved in the Wayback Machine; some of the 1 trillion pages saved.
Kick off a trip through the websites of the tournament & your favorite teams with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org

#Wayback1T
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" and "FIFA.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the FIFA website from December 7, 1998, alongside one from October 8, 2025. The logo of the Internet Archive appears at the lower right.
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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🎬 Meet a winner: THE SITUATIONSHIP reimagines a 1920s silent film & took third place in the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.

Now it’s your turn—create a 2–3 min short using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.

ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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⏰ There’s still time to join today’s #booktalk! 📖
PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET examines how non-commercial approaches can transform open access & build equitable publishing futures.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online!
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
Book cover for "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" by Samuel A. Moore, featuring vintage printing blocks arranged in a drawer. A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Cory Doctorow coined the word ENSHITTIFICATION & found that a little vulgarity helps people engage with abstract technical questions.

On the Future Knowledge #podcast, he explains why the web became hostile & how we can make it work again.

🎧 Listen ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ens...
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#Booktalk tomorrow!
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, exploring how commons-based publishing can offer fair and ethical alternatives.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🧵 The first popular web browser was Mosaic, released in 1993 by NCSA at the University of Illinois. 🌐

Most people today have never heard of it, but its original site is preserved on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/19961220...

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "NCSA.UIUC.EDU/SDG/SOFTWARE/MOSAIC". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the NCSA website for the Mosaic browser from December 20, 1996, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone labeled "Now".
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places

blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/...

Treasure Island at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...

#books #literature
Part of Robert Louis Stevenson's map of Treasure Island
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.

📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

#contest #filmmaking #publicdomain
Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: Is there anything else on these VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Commercials? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live tonight at 7pm EST on Twitch.

twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Did you know several issues of Factsheet Five are available over at the @archive.org? The corpus isn't complete & the process of cleaning and OCR'ing images can be slow/painful, but the hope is that this allows more folks to read & research 80s-90s zine culture. archive.org/search?query...
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This World AIDS Day, we honor the voices and activism that shaped the global fight against HIV/AIDS. "Victory Deferred"—a defining history of the crisis by journalist John-Manuel Andriote—is now an open access edition, free for all to read on the Internet Archive: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/a...
Cover of the book “Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America” by John-Manuel Andriote. The title appears in large white letters over a background featuring a stylized American flag and symbolic imagery. A red AIDS awareness ribbon is shown near the bottom.
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Very much looking forward to this event. Great presenters, and @samuelmoore.org's book is maybe the best thing I've ever read about Open Access publishing.
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · 5d
Planning your week? 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph as they explore PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & how collective, scholar-led publishing can reshape open access.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
Book cover for "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" by Samuel A. Moore, featuring vintage printing blocks arranged in a drawer.
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
archive.org
Planning your week? 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph as they explore PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & how collective, scholar-led publishing can reshape open access.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
Book cover for "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" by Samuel A. Moore, featuring vintage printing blocks arranged in a drawer.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.

Collections growing at 150TBytes/day

@internetarchive

archive.org/donate

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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Come for the b-roll of people excited for sales, stay for the 2 seconds of this guy mugging for the camera
Guy staring at the camera
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. 🛍️ The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash.

Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.

📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...

#BlackFriday
Cover of the 1904 novel Black Friday by Frederic S. Isham. The olive-green cover shows the title in large gold letters at the top. Beneath it are three tall black pedestals, each supporting a domed stock ticker machine with visible gears. Long white ticker tape streams down from each machine into woven baskets. The author’s name appears in black lettering at the bottom.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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They came for crowds, holiday energy & retail deals. #BlackFriday at Liberty Tree Mall, 1995—kids on the carousel as parents hustle & shop. 🛍️🎠

This 90s time capsule was preserved on the @InternetArchive by the original videographer.

📼 Watch the full tape ⤵️
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November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#Thanksgiving & football go hand in hand, and THE FRESHMAN (1925) shows the frenzy has been around for over a century. Harold Lloyd’s chaotic climactic game helped shape every underdog sports comedy that followed. Touchdown! 🏈

Watch the full #publicdomain classic ⤵️
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November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🏈🖥️ Ready to call the plays? In Football for Windows, created by an ex-college player, you step in as coach & run the game your way. It was once free to copy & play (with a $25 registration to unlock everything) — you can play it in-browser at the #InternetArchive ➡️ archive.org/details/FOOTFW
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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#Football on the menu today? 🏈 This #Thanksgiving, enjoy a charming home movie of two kids tossing the ball on a crisp autumn day! 🍂

🎞️ Full film features 1940s holidays, parades, & neighborhood celebrations.

Watch it here ⤵️
archive.org/details/0005...

#HomeMovies #Suburbia @footage.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The gridiron & #Thanksgiving have been paired for over a century. 🏈🦃
The sport’s inspired songs, stories & more. Take it to the end zone with vintage books, movies, computer games, videos, programs & magazine covers in this football collection on the #InternetArchive ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ias...
Grid of four magazine and book covers. Top left: Saturday Evening Post cover from November 12, 1927, showing two young football players talking, one whispering to the other beside a worn football. Top right: Cover of the October 1920 issue of American Boy magazine with a large illustrated scene of boys playing football on a field, watched by crowds near a school building. Bottom left: A 1924 Life magazine cover titled “The Football Number,” showing a humorous illustration of a stylish woman in a black dress forcefully tackling a dazed football player wearing oversized, old-fashioned padding. His helmet has fallen to the ground, and he leans back with a startled expression as she grips his jersey. Caption reads: “Her Tackling Dummy.” Bottom right: Red book cover titled Football and How to Watch It by Percy D. Haughton, 1924, featuring a black silhouette of a football player kicking within a decorative circular frame.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Are your #Thanksgiving cooking plans half-baked? 🧑‍🍳 Don’t stew in your own juices—simmer down and take some time ⏲️ out to peruse these vintage manuals for slow cookers, blenders, cookware & ovens.

Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️ archive.org/details/@ias...
A collage of four vintage cooking and appliance manuals. The top left shows a Rival Crock-Pot cookbook with illustrations of three crockpots surrounded by vegetables. The top right is a Duncan Hines stainless-steel cookware booklet with a close-up photo of fresh produce. The bottom left features a colorful, stylized cover for a manual titled Casserole Cooking in the New World Oven, with bold geometric graphics and food shapes. The bottom right shows the cover of Your Waring Cookbook, displaying an array of prepared foods and ingredients arranged around a blender.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I have my great grandma's (lots of lard!), and my grandma's! Stained, clippings tucked in, and yes, a rubber band.
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.

🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...

#Thanksgiving
Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for corn bread dressing with crossed-out words, ingredient adjustments, and cooking notes in pen, including instructions to cook onion, broth, and celery together. Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for hot cakes with handwritten ingredient adjustments in pen.
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM