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New post from Joe Mullin, EFF's Sr. Policy Analyst: Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because they fear AI scraping. This is a misguided notion: it won’t stop AI, but it will erase the web’s historical record.

@eff@mastodon.social has the story ⤵️
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

We love π around here.

In the Great Room at the Internet Archive, the first nine digits of π are mounted on the wall.

A small #PiDay tribute to a very big number. 🥧📚

Here’s Brewster Kahle with 3.14159265… proof that π is part of our architecture.

@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org #PieAndPi

Chia Amisola’s "Elegiac" unfolds hundreds of browser windows into a generative myth from archived media, sound, and text 🎨🎶📝

Created for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions, it evokes a web that disappears even as the Archive stays 🌐

Learn more ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/internet-archive-x-gray-area-trillionth-webpage-net-art-commissions/

#Wayback1T #GrayAreaOrg

Welcome to the public domain, CIMARRON (1930) by Edna Ferber 📖

This sweeping saga of the Oklahoma land rush follows Yancey & Sabra Cravat as they build a life on the American frontier 🌾🏜️

The book inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Richard Dix & Irene Dunne.

Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/cimarron0000edna_o9w0

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

Welcome to the public domain, GRAND HOTEL (1930) by Vicki Baum 🏨

A glamorous Berlin hotel becomes the crossroads for intertwined lives in this bestselling novel of drama, romance, and ambition 📖

In 1932, it received a big-screen treatment starring Greta Garbo.

Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-DGV-438

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

🎼 The 2026 Public Song Project is here! And this year, we’re turning up the volume on the public domain.

🤝 For the first time, WNYC’s Public Song Project is partnering with the Internet Archive!

🎤 Anyone can participate.

📚 The public domain in the U.S. includes creative works published in 1930 or earlier, sound recordings from 1925 or earlier, plus U.S. federal government works.

📆 Submit your song by May 10

Details & entry form ⤵️
https://www.wnyc.org/story/2026-public-song-project/

📩 Questions? aoi@wnyc.org

⏰ TOMORROW. TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE 🎟️

There’s still time to join #DWebCamp 2026 Berlin! 🏕️

Unconference + Meetup + fireside chat with @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org. All free. All community-led.

Exploring decentralization & Europe’s public knowledge future 🇪🇺 .

📅 Feb 28, 2026
🕙 Unconference 10:00–18:00 CET
🕖 Meetup 19:00-22:00 CET
📍In-person at c-base in Berlin
🎟️🆓 https://dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/

@internetarchiveeurope@toot.community @dweb@social.coop @cbase@chaos.social

Scrapbooks. Witchcraft. Cats. 🐾

Our latest Artist in Residence, Cindy Rehm, mined the Internet Archive to create The Seers—a 100-piece collage series inspired by feminist mysticism.

Watch her talk & explore the work ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol9Xc-D5U-8&t=938s

To clear up any confusion, this action is not about the Internet Archive, which is at archive.org, or the Wayback Machine.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-after-alleged-ddos-attack

📣 Co-create #DWebCamp 2026 in #Berlin next week!

Join the Unconference + Meetup exploring decentralization & the future of public knowledge in Europe.

Meetup features a live fireside chat with Brewster Kahle.

📅 Feb 28, 2026
🕙 Unconference 10:00–18:00 CET
🕖 Meetup 19:00-22:00 CET
📍In-person at c-base in Berlin
🎟️🆓 https://dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/

Co-hosted by Internet Archive Europe & Department of Decentralization

@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org @internetarchiveeurope@toot.community @dweb@social.coop @cbase@chaos.social

📚 How does tech shape our desire to understand & connect?

Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning journalist & author, for a LIVE #booktalk on SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ co-host Luca Messarra.

📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/

Co-hosted by @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org & @AuthorsAlliance@mastodon.social

#ai #techculture

Shipwrecks, mutiny & the relentless pursuit of knowledge. Hernando Colón’s quest to collect everything ever printed comes to life in THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS.

Author Edward Wilson-Lee joins @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org on the Future Knowledge #podcast to explore this extraordinary true story.

🎧 Listen & subscribe: https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-catalogue-of-shipwrecked-books

@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org

A trillion webpages, saved. 🌐

To mark the milestone, Internet Archive x GrayArea commissioned new net․art created from within the Archive’s vast collections.

Ex. “alive internet theory” by Spencer Chang takes the form of a séance with the Internet, channeling millions of archived media files to ask: can the web feel alive?

Talented artists turn preserved data into presence & memory into experience.

Learn more about the Trillionth Webpage Commissions ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/internet-archive-x-gray-area-trillionth-webpage-net-art-commissions/

#Wayback1T

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
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Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

🇮🇹 Italy hosted the Winter Games in 2006 and they’re carving fresh tracks in the show again, right now, in 2026 ❄️⛷️⛸️

Official sites get replaced, but you can still revisit the originals & compare past and present on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org

#Olympics #WinterOlympics #InternetHistory

The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!

🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.

Watch the full recording ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @AuthorsAlliance@mastodon.social

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE SHINDIG (1930)! 🐭🐭🎶

🎬 Mickey & Minnie take to the stage to show off their musical chops in this charming barn dance. Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow cut a rug as dancers.

🚫The cartoon got barred in Ohio for a gag where Clarabell is reading the controversial 1907 romance novel "Three Weeks" by Elinor Glyn & hides it when Horace comes a-calling. 🐮📖

Full short ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-shindig_1930

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #animation

💘Whether yearning or in love, vintage Valentine’s art shows how 💞 were shared.

Charming & sweet, this collection of cards, covers, magazines & books from the past, are preserved for new generations to fall in love with 💌

Revel in the romance ➡️ https://archive.org/details/%40iasocial/lists/13/valentines-2026

#ValentinesDay #VintageLove #Preservation

🌹 Roses are red
🍬 Candy is sweet
💖 GifGrams are fun
📨 Sharing's a treat

Send your own holiday GifGram made from vintage GeoCities GIFs to someone you adore.

Make your own here ➡️ https://gifcities.org/gram/
🧵

#GifGram #GIFsAreGifts

📣 Co-create the #DWebCamp 2026 in Berlin! 🏕️

Join the Unconference + Meetup in exploring decentralization & the future of public knowledge in Europe 🇪🇺

On Feb 28, 2026, the #DWeb community gathers at @cbase@chaos.social in Berlin for a free DWeb Camp Unconference (day) & Meetup (evening) with an in-person fireside chat with @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org.

🎟️🆓 https://dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/

Co-hosted by @internetarchiveeurope@toot.community, @dweb@social.coop, and the Department of Decentralization.

The Winter #Olympics continue! ⛷️

🏂 Celebrate gaming history by revisiting 1985’s "Winter Games" from our classic software collection ❄️

💾 #SoftwarePreservation is how we go for the Gold! 🥇

🕹️ Play it on your favorite vintage platform ⤵️
https://archive.org/search?query=winter+games&and%5B%5D=mediatype:%22software%22

#8bit

Congrats to "THE REALITY ENGINEER" by Konstantin, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

A comedic short about a scientist who attempts to improve human life by altering reality, only to find that each well-intentioned fix deepens the chaos.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-reality-engineer

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️

Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.

Observed every Feb 13 since UNESCO’s 2011 proclamation, 2026 highlights “radio and artificial intelligence” 🧠📻

DLARC College Radio brings this to life with 1980s playlists, zines, flyers, stickers, and materials from stations across the U.S. and Canada 🎶

It’s all in our blog ⬇️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/Tuning_in_to_College_Radio_Materials_on_World_Radio_Day_2026

#WorldRadioDay #AI #CollegeRadio

🎙️ Have you heard Future Knowledge?

This #podcast from the Internet Archive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org) and Authors Alliance (@AuthorsAlliance@mastodon.social) explores how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved in the digital age.

Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Over 20 episodes out now!
🎧 https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm

#AccessToKnowledge

🖤 It’s Friday the 13th, the kind of day that makes some of us knock on wood, sidestep ladders 🪜, and watch out for black cats 🐈‍⬛

🔮 Preserving cultural artifacts shows how people have made sense of chance & misfortune.

Lucky you 🍀, a Friday the 13th collection awaits ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/%40iasocial/lists/14/friday-the-13th%2C-2026

#FridayThe13th #Superstitions #Preservation

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, BLONDIE (1930) 💄📰

👒 Before suburban life with Dagwood, Blondie debuted as a carefree flapper in Chic Young’s comic strip. Her early adventures focused on attempts to win the blessing of Dagwood's snooty, rich family, a far cry from the domestic icon she’d later become.

Blondie’s maiden name, Boopadoop, nods to the “boop-a-doop” singing fad of the 1920s–’30s.🎶

Read all the 1930 Blondie dailies ➡️ https://archive.org/details/blondie-1930

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Hernando Colón wanted to build a library containing everything ever printed. 📚

Hear Edward Wilson-Lee, author of THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS, in conversation with Brewster Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast, exploring Colón’s epic quest for knowledge.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-catalogue-of-shipwrecked-books

#digitalpreservation #libraries @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org

📚 How do our searches shape who we are, and who profits?

Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning tech journalist and author, for a LIVE podcast recording and #booktalk on SEARCHES, co-hosted by Luca Messarra.

📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10am PT / 1pm ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/

@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org @AuthorsAlliance@mastodon.social #ai #techculture

🏈🏆 The champions change. So do their websites.

From early HTML to modern redesigns, the @WaybackMachine preserves the digital playbook of #NFL champions, decades of archived team sites, including the Seattle Seahawks. 🏟️

Run the archive ➡️ https://web.archive.org

#WaybackMachine #webpreservation #Football @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org #Seahawks #Superbowl

The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!

🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works just entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.

Watch the full recording ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @AuthorsAlliance@mastodon.social

Annie Rauwerda, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, lives for the internet’s weirdest footnotes.

That includes things like the long-gone Garfield the cat “G-Mail,” 🙀📬 a very real web oddity now preserved only on the #WaybackMachine.

Internet history is stranger—and more fragile—than it looks.

Read more 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/05/depths-of-wikipedia-creator-annie-rauwerda-on-fragile-internet-citations/

@annierau@wikis.world @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org #Wikipedia

Congrats to THE BOOTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Thomas Biamonte,
Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

This anti-war short draws from 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front, paired with a reading of Rudyard Kipling’s 1903 poem “Boots.”

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/all-quiet

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.

“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/

#linkrot

📢 NEW #LIVESTREAM EVENT TOMORROW! 📡

Watch the winning films & honorable mentions from the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest - live from the @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org!

📅 Weds Jan 21
🕕 7:00–8:00 PM PT
📍ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/livestream-2026-public-domain-film-remix-contest-screening/

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #livenow

When works become public domain, anyone can reimagine and reuse them.

🚂 The Little Engine That Could can be freely reinterpreted—like this video marrying pages of the 1930 book to a Librivox audio recording. 📚+🎤

Learn more ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2026/

#PublicDomainDay

⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO 👀

When the new year begins, so does #PublicDomainDay2026.

At 12:00 a.m. ET, iconic books, films, and music move into the public domain—and we’ll be sharing highlights #here all night long.

🔔 Set your reminder ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

🎁 Need a standout holiday gift? We’re down to the final batch of our Limited Edition Internet Archive Jersey.

Features: Internet Archive in script + the number 10¹² WEB PAGES in recognition of 1 trillion pages preserved on the #WaybackMachine.

Available in M, L & XL—but going fast!

Shop here ➡️ https://store.archive.org

🏛️ All proceeds benefit the Internet Archive, a non-profit research library with a mission to provide "Universal Access to All Knowledge."

Cory Doctorow coined the word ENSHITTIFICATION & learned that a minor license to vulgarity can be a key to getting people interested in abstract technical questions.

On the Future Knowledge #podcast, he explains what the word means, why the web became frustrating & hostile to users, & how we can make it work for people again.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/enshittification

@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org @AuthorsAlliance@mastodon.social

Dark shadows, hidden faces, and silent dread. For #SpookySeason, GODS MAN (1929) is a wordless descent into temptation and consequence, perfect for #Halloween week. 🕯️🖤

👀 Check out this video of the opening chapter.
Then read the full story in our Spooky Season 2025 collection ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025

#HalloweenReads

It's official! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.

🔗 Learn more & celebrate with us tonight ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/happy-internet-archive-day/

🎮 From Pac-Man to Nosh Kosh—retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing.

Only 13% of classic games from 1960–2009 are still available. Some, like Jewish educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14 at 87, were almost lost forever.

Journalist Josh Renaud @kirkman@digipres.club explains why preserving niche software matters in the latest essay from the Vanishing Culture report.

🔗 Read the full essay: https://blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/vanishing-culture-recovering-lost-software/

Updates from @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org about the DDOS attacks on Internet Archive:

Do digital books last longer than physical books? @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org highlights the lengths libraries go through to keep digital books viable: they “need constant maintenance—reprocessing, reformatting, re-invigorating or they will not be readable or read.” http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/