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1 year

@elonmusk @thackerpd I am the Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, a non-profit public charity and a library which runs the Wayback Machine-- no one 'owns' the Internet Archive. Taylor Lorenz is not my niece, nor have I met her.

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@AWaxwire @internetarchive Thank you! We bought the building because it matched our logo, the logo we had for 15 years. And it has been a great home. (a former Christian Science Church, built in 1923)

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@PurpleCatDude @internetarchive that is a good idea. We should have an open-house at the Physical Archive. I will look into it.

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@internetarchive Yes, the @internetarchive is trying to preserve one copy of Every Book Ever Published (both digitally and physically)

In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books (Published 2012)

As society embraces all forms of digital entertainment, a latter-day Noah is looking the other way. Brewster Kahle, who runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit, hopes to collect one copy of every book.

www.nytimes.com

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All Pre-1923 Recorded Music enters Public Domain (in the US) all at once, and for the first time for any recorded sound, and it happens tonight! 38,000 recordings available from @internetarchive ! 🎶

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Our new facility will safely house and preserve millions of books, records, films, videos, floppies, ...! Long live libraries and archives.

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@brewster_kahle

2 years

Please donate to the Internet Archive if you can. We are a bargain! Serving millions every day with books music video and web archives. Please help keep everything freely available.

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3 years

Power outage at an @internetarchive datacenter that is knocking out and . No estimated time of repair yet. :(

John Zuchelli

@tvzuke

3 years

#DEVELOPING @PGE4Me reporting that more than 28,000 customers are without power in the Bay Area. The outages are weather related due to fog and mist. In the Richmond area more than 10k customers are without power. Crews are working to restore power. @nbcbayarea

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San Francisco: If #xfinity still down tomorrow and you need Internet... come to the @InternetArchive after 8am. We have 100Gbits/sec (really) and Free. (Vax proof + mask required)

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@brewster_kahle

5 years

Wayback Machine is on a tear: now 784Billion web objects (~784,103,430,000) at uh, please donate to support @internetarchive all of this is important and expensive.

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4 years

Libraries lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit -- Please retweet if you support library lending of digitized books.

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@brewster_kahle

6 years

20,000 texts and movies from 1923 now public domain in the US and free to bulk download and play with! yippie! via @internetarchive

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1 year

Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down What just happened on today, as best we know:

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@brewster_kahle

8 years

$3000 donated anonymously to the @internetarchive in bitcoin just now. Made our day! Thank you!

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@brewster_kahle

8 months

Please donate to @internetarchive to stand by your library. 100Petabytes and growing-- building a record of our time for us all to enjoy.

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@brewster_kahle

1 year

Don't Delete our Books! Rally was huge success. What does it mean we have to have pro-library rally's? with Book Bannings, library shutdowns, and suits. #DigitalRightsForLibraries @internetarchive

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8 months

@internetarchive ...The publishers have taken more than 500 banned books from our lending library, such as 1984, The Color Purple, and Maus. This is a devastating loss for digital learners everywhere. We are appealing the ruling today. Stand by libraries.

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3 years

On the front cover! (I am still a paper adherent)

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@brewster_kahle

8 years

Wayback Machine evidence holds up in court: not our original target use, but glad it is not doubted in court. go @internetarchive

National Law Review

@natlawreview

8 years

Patent Owner’s Challenge to Wayback Machine Evidence Fails @AKKLawFirm #ip #patent

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5 years

The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars

The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinfor...

For years, the Internet Archive has been acquiring books (their goal is every book ever published) and warehousing them and scanning them. Now, these books are being "woven into Wikipedia"…

boingboing.net

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3 years

He founded the Internet Archive with a utopian vision. That hasn't changed, but the internet has Internet Archive in cover article of the SF Chronicle! via @sfchronicle and @ChaseDiFelice

He founded the Internet Archive with a utopian vision. That hasn’t changed, but the internet has

Brewster Kahle’s early vision of free and open access to information is fighting...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@brewster_kahle

5 years

"The free market is essentially a casino that you can never leave." a casino where with only one eventual winner. Important article that disproves: free market leads to many winners, to "liberty"--it doesn't. Without Redistribution we get Oligarchy, Fast.

Is Inequality Inevitable?

Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests

www.scientificamerican.com

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1 year

libraries need your help. the Internet Archive needs your help. Please come to the Don't delete our books! Rally in San Francisco Sat, April 08 11:00 AM by Fight for the Future location: Internet Archive• 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118 US

Don't delete our books! Rally in San Francisco

Rally for the digital future of libraries! The nonprofit Internet Archive is appealing a judgment that threatens the future of all libraries. Big Media is suing to cut off libraries’ ownership and...

actionnetwork.org

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@brewster_kahle

3 months

@internetarchive is back up (!) but the Internet Archive is currently overly broad on IP addresses that are being blocked. Working on narrowing it down.

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@brewster_kahle

6 years

703,726,890,000 URL's now in the @waybackmachine by the @internetarchive ! (703 billion) Over a billion more added each week. The Web is a grand experiment in sharing and giving. Loving it!

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@brewster_kahle

3 years

Pages from the Wayback Machine were "admissible" in many court cases. Many. This is an article that lists lots: what a world. @waybackmachine @internetarchive

It’s Back! It’s Wayback! It’s Away, Wayback! It’s Admissible!

Bexis had a couple of encounters with the “Wayback Machine” (a/k/a/ the “Internet Archive”) recently. If you don’t…

www.lexology.com

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@brewster_kahle

7 years

An obscure copyright law is letting the Internet Archive distribute books published 1923-1941

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@brewster_kahle

2 years

"Our Digital History Is at Risk" by me in Time Magazine Free societies need access to history, unaltered by changing corporate or political interests. This is the role that libraries have played and need to keep playing.

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2 years

Why archive TV news? This is one reason. Internet Archive's TV Archive was used to prove an TV News caption (called chyron) was altered, and then tweeted by Elon Musk. This is why we need publicly accessible archives! go @internetarchive ! go AFP!

Twitter owner Elon Musk shares fabricated CNN chyron

Twitter owner Elon Musk claims CNN ran a segment saying Musk could jeopardize free speech on the platform "by allowing people to speak freely." This is false; the chyron -- which AFP first debunked...

factcheck.afp.com

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the @internetarchive has added a Mastodon Server fyi: I'm via @internetarchi

Brewster Kahle (@[email protected])

954 Posts, 192 Following, 7.93K Followers · Digital Librarian at the Internet Archive http://archive.org http://openlibrary.org http://brewster.kahle.org @internetarchive

mastodon.archive.org

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@brewster_kahle

1 year

We are sorry for the outage at @internetarchive A graph we dont like to see... (but you can see it coming up on the right hand side):

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2 years

78rpm records, by the thousand, are being uploaded to @internetarchive Right Now! Many are wacky or charming, but in a familiar kind of way. @great78project Here are this month's uploads, in most recently-uploaded-first:

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2 years

Here is Twitter's deleted their policy page and their tweet about it. Patrons of @internetarchive used the Save Page Now feature to save it. old tweet page and current missing page (/w to archived policy page):

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@brewster_kahle

6 months

Important victory in Canada against the "everything in a library is licensed" approach.

Michael Geist

@mgeist

6 months

Access Copyright suffers another massive defeat in court. Ordered to repay tens of millions in overpayment of licence fees along with court costs to provincial Ministries of Education. Various Access Copyright claims about licensing rejected.

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6 years

Please consider donating to the Internet Archive-- one accomplishment-- We Fixed More than 6 Million Broken Links in Wikipedia. @internetarchive

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@brewster_kahle

3 years

You chose a name that is too confusing with the Internet Archive @internetarchive -- please change the name of your organization. Confusion like this is avoidable. Thank you.

European Web Archive

@ArchiveEu

4 years

We just launched! 🎉🥳 #InternetArchive #EU

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"The decision—which was in favor of the publishers—will add to librarians’ frustrations. It will impoverish readers across the country seeking access to digital books, and over time diminish the library as a democratic institution that provides broad collections to everyone."

Dan Cohen

@dancohen

1 year

For The Atlantic, I wrote about last week’s ruling in an important case that may shape the future of reading—and likely diminish the role of libraries in that future

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3 years

Internet Archive is the 2nd most popular .org non-profit according to Alexa Internet #159 (after Wikipedia #14 ). go @internetarchive ! cool graphic poster:

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@brewster_kahle

5 years

Wayback Machine just grew to 881,352,519,000 web URL's. That is 881 Billion. For every one that becomes important in the news or in someones personal world, we crawl and store millions of others just-in-case. go @internetarchive

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7 years

Wayback Machine now has 626,323,941,000 web objects in it-- 626Billion! (includes pages but also images and such). wow. go @internetarchive !

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5 years

Wayback Machine now has 715,436,106,000 web-objects in it, your history, my history, our history. go @internetarchive ! (and used by hundreds of thousands of people each day. )

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11 months

"The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts In addition to political censorship and budget cuts, libraries are being undermined by rapacious digital licensing agreements" op-ed by me:

The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts | Brewster Kahle

In addition to political censorship and budget cuts, libraries are being undermined by rapacious digital licensing agreements

www.theguardian.com

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@brewster_kahle

6 years

Wayback Machine updated! now with about 690,991,926,000 web objects. Billions and Billions. Millions and Millions of users. go @internetarchive go wayback!

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@brewster_kahle

3 years

Happy 25th anniversary ⁦ @internetarchive ⁩ ! The cake was fantastic and well enjoyed and the lights are still on in the cake!

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@brewster_kahle

5 years

"Truth Might Fracture" said @Wikimedia 's Exec Dir @krmaher to me 3 years ago. It chilled me to my spine. So we redirected much of the @internetarchive for 3 years, and this is where I announce what we have done: Books<->Wikipedia

World Night Market — LIVE From Internet Archive

In a world in which truth seems to be fracturing, what’s a library’s role? To weave the trusted knowledge held by libraries into the World Wide Web itself. ...

www.youtube.com

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@brewster_kahle

6 years

651,621,510,000 web URL's now in the Wayback Machine by @internetarchive . Billions and Billions of web pages! users hitting "save page now" at 100 per second:

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@brewster_kahle

3 years

Heart is out to University of Cape Town's library & community-- burning now. Lets digitize everything now.

Cape Argus

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3 years

The University of Cape Town's library and residences and upper campus building are currently burning as firefighters battle to contain the fire on the slopes of Table Mountain . #capetownfire Picture: @armandhough & @Traceyleighadam

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4 years

Internet Archive's San Francisco HQ goes Work-from-home thus following the San Francisco Mayor's guidelines. Focusing now on providing a library for all digital learners-- we can thrive anywhere! go @internetarchive

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@brewster_kahle

4 years

Libraries vs Bookstores? No, False dichotomy. They are different Animals. Both necessary, both valuable, and very different.

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@brewster_kahle

7 years

New Wayback Machine data build with 554,260,965,000 URL's (554 Billion)! go @internetarchive

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@brewster_kahle

1 year

Library's roles: Preservation and Access Easy to say, hard to do Access is under pressure (banned books, lawsuit against the @internetarchive ). Preservation is always hard and difficult to fund. @longnow is at the forefront of very long term preservation What next?

Long Now Foundation

@longnow

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@AdrienneEve @stewartbrand @GCIConservation @kevin2kelly @brewster_kahle @zander The @internetarchive has been at the forefront of the fight for digital preservation since its founding in 01996. While it began its work by archiving the web itself, its collection has grown to hold billions of not just web pages but also documents, books, and tv programs.

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Now 750 Billion web objects now in the Wayback Machine. (that be Billions and Billions). Love the sharing going on on the web. go @waybackmachine go @internetarchive !

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2 years

Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books is why we need libraries to own digital books: via @internetarchive

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Aruba slave records, in handwriting, but full text searchable based on great work by National Library of Aruba and others, with the @internetarchive

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1 year

Now the Washington lawyers want to destroy digital collections of scratchy 78rpm records, 70-120 year old, built by dedicated preservationists online since 2006. Who benefits?

Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection

Universal Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from...

www.reuters.com

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@brewster_kahle

20 days

Prince of Persia lives! I play it every week on the Internet Archive tour-- sad to say, I am not getting much better. Thank you @jmechner !

Jordan Mechner

@jmechner

20 days

Hi, you can play Prince of Persia right now for free online (original 1990 PC version) thanks to @internetarchive ! Links are posted in the recent @princeofpersia challenge at . The @TwinGalaxies challenge has ended, but you can still play for free!

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3 years

6,000 more 78rpm records have just been uploaded! Incl 5 from 1901 including an anti-temperance movement piece (sounds like vaudeville to me) Go @internetarchive and thank you Thomas Kemp for donating.

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4 years

Announcing a National Emergency Library @internetarchive –1.4 million free books to meet students’ and readers’ needs while schools and libraries are closed at global scale. and browse the collection at

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@internetarchive Well, PG&E has updated info for the outage that encompanses the @internetarchive datacenter --- "PG&E is assessing the cause at the outage location."

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Daniel Ellsberg, wonderful to work with. He deeply cared about archives and history. The Internet Archive had the honor of scanning of many of his files in his house for a year and a half. Thank you, Misha for all that work.

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3 years

6000+ new 78rpm records uploaded. including jazzy one without a label-- truly "found" records and one from 1905 from "Harvard Disc Record" before it was Columbia: all 6,000: go @internetarchive !

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8 years

Wayback Machine now has 284,431,853,894 webpages (284 billion). Wow. go @internetarchive

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4 years

Scholars Back Internet Archive's Defense of Digital Lending -- Bloomberg "The idea that lending out a book is illegal is just wrong." copyright professor Pamela Samuelson of the University of California, Berkeley said. /1

Scholars Back Internet Archive’s Defense of Digital Lending

A collection of scholars and public interest organizations is backing the Internet Archive’s argument that its digital lending qualifies as fair use, comparable to traditional library lending.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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4 years

Yes, 1925 is going public domain on January 1, but it is bittersweet--copyright used to be about books and movies, now it regulates if you can repair your tractor, play your computer game from the 90's Time to repealing the 1976 Copyright Act? Forbes:

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5 years

Loving the newly digitized old LP's going up on it is like coming back from the record store with a new record, and every day, and it is free! Try: go @internetarchive !

Best Of Bouzoukia : Μπουζούκια Του Ζαμπέτα : Free Download, Borrow,...

Tracklist: 1. Baktse Tsifliki 2. In The Cool Of The Day 3. Death 4. Tour Out The Light 5. Extravaganza 6. Minor At Dawn 7. Night Without Moon 8....

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6 years

Wayback Machine just got bigger: now 654,193,926,000 web objects. (654 billion). go @internetarchive go @archiveitorg !

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3 years

First InterLibrary Loan (in the US) was in 1886 by Joseph C. Rowell, Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. "Resource Sharing is Wish Fulfillment" said a librarian on an ILL call this week. Let's fulfill more wishes! ♥️ ()

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InterLibrary loan lives! Record numbers are getting articles and chapters through this reliable free method from the Internet Archive. The long tail holdings are needed! 384 libraries are now getting docs through one system. Go @internetarchive go #ILL

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6 months

@p8stie @internetarchive Next time, please come in! And we have tours every Friday at 1pm. There are a number of us that work in that building every day. (and we are lenient to those that do not have a place to sleep at night)

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3 years

People use InterLibrary Loan when they can not find it in their library The @internetarchive is fulfilling lots of these, often obscure, so... are we "second fiddle" or "long tail heroes"? If you appreciate an #ILL document from us, pls tweet or say thank you. #ILL

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7 years

Ever wonder how many web URL's the @internetarchive has archived and is in the wayback?drum roll... 567,683,748,000 (567Billion) as of today

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3 years

Search Scholarly Materials Preserved in the Internet Archive-- I love this. go @internetarchive !

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5 years

Mostly Japanese 78rpm records donation! Thank you, Nana Spence of Victoria, BC. Coming to soon. go @internetarchive @great78project

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@brewster_kahle

8 years

And the @internetarchive is in the list of possible $100million projects! Feels like being nominated for the oscars.

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1 year

Nice portrait of @internetarchive and me: “Pick a BIG project that you won’t finish, that lasts beyond your lifetime.” Brewster Kahle expanded on the thought with a reference to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick...

Digital Librarian for and of the World

“Pick a BIG project that you won’t finish, that lasts beyond your lifetime.” Brewster Kahle expanded on the thought with a reference to…

ferosevr.medium.com

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@brewster_kahle

4 years

"the future belonged to Microfilm"! We are digitizing ufilm at scale now-- thank you for those that came before the digital age. @internetarchive

BBC Archive

@BBCArchive

4 years

#OnThisDay 1967: Paper's days were numbered - the future belonged to microfilm.

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5 years

The Web is so good, now lets do great: open, private, reliable #ForTheWeb Decentralized Web is an approach. 3 cheers for @Wikipedia @internetarchive @EFF @publicknowledge @w3c @linuxfoundation @fsf @internetsociety together, we can.

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7 years

Wayback Machine now has 571,233,306,000 URL's-- more than double 4.5 years ago. go @internetarchive !

Internet Hall of Fame

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12 years

The Wayback Machine project of the Internet Archive, headed by @brewster_kahle , now has 240 billion URLs. http://t.co/Uee7leSn

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8 years

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

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1 year

@internetarchive coming back

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6 years

"As a 'Machine' it's an archive of taken-down web pages; as a part of an SUV, it's the third row of seats". quick, its Jeopardy! tick tick tick...

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8 months

love when an interlibrary loan request comes through for a paper from long ago (1900 chemistry paper) Lets keep the shoulders of giants strong and available for current scholars to stand on #ILL @internetarchive Happy holidays!

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4 years

Drum roll please... 100 (one hundred) 78rpm sides are being added each hour over the next 2 days-- go go go! @great78project rules. (and thank you @internetarchive and @georgeblood_lp )

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2 years

Microfiche and Microfilm contains so much that has not made it to the web. I love that the @internetarchive is working to fix this! (Loving interface as opposed to those old ufilm/ufiche readers 😀 )

Internet Archive

@internetarchive

2 years

This is a microfiche card. It's one of >1M cards donated to @internetarchive for preservation & digitization, thanks to the combined efforts of @StanfordLibs & other library partners. Learn more about microfiche & our plans for access:

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3 years

We will miss Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Proud day when he came to the Internet Archive with Peter Schumann. @internetarchive

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3 years

More 78's to play from our library! Uploading 9,000+ right now (adding to the 250,000 already there) many oldies: Thank you to @RonWyden for bringing many to Public Domain on 1/1/2022 @great78project @internetarchive

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1 year

@internetarchive is back up-- or coming up. Thank you PG&E (though time to be an infrastructure org) @internetarchive

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7 years

Beloved Recycled Records donates their complete collection to the Internet Archive for preservation and access. Thank you Bruce Lyall! @internetarchive

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2 months

"Saved MTV News Is Back (Kind Of) Thanks to the Internet Archive After Paramount Global yanked over 20 years of music journalism, the non-profit Internet Archive created a searchable index of MTV News via its Wayback Machine" rolling stone.

MTV News Is Back (Kind Of) Thanks to the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has created a searchable index of the old MTV News website, after it was unexpectedly pulled down last week.

www.rollingstone.com

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3 months

"Saving the First Draft of History: When news sites suddenly shut down and former URLs are sold to the highest bidder, saving a publisher's archive becomes a time-consuming and rigorous full-time job in the digital age." go @waybackmachine @MarkGraham

Saving the First Draft of History | Nieman Reports

Archiving wasn’t perfect in the analog days, but preserving journalism in the digital age is increasingly complicated, writes Gabe Bullard.

niemanreports.org

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@brewster_kahle

3 months

@internetarchive up.

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3 months

Positive Ruling for libraries in Canada: "Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing" Go Canada Now Fair Use for libraries US: Acquire, preserve, lend, and cooperate. each under attack or dead by contracts

Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump...

The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair...

www.michaelgeist.ca

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@brewster_kahle

6 years

643,270,620,000 URL's now in the Wayback Machine. Big Number: 643billion. This counts images and scripts, so is more than pages. growing at roughly 1.5 billion per week. go @internetarchive go @waybackmachine !

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@brewster_kahle

3 years

Interlibrary Loan starting at the Internet Archive! @internetarchive Launches New Pilot Program for Interlibrary Loan -- pls help us learn via @internetarchive

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@brewster_kahle

4 years

Internet2, ho! The @internetarchive generally exchanges 2gigabits/sec to Universities for research and stuff, and then, 7Gbits! all good, we love it. (Thank you @CENICNews ) datamining and machine learning start analyzing whole collections-- what a library is for!

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@brewster_kahle

8 years

VHS Tape covers are (often) wild. Here are 1000 of them: go @internetarchive !

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@brewster_kahle

8 years

Internet Archive aims to preserve 100 terabytes of government website data… just in case @internetarchive

The Internet Archive aims to preserve 100 terabytes of government website data… just in case

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer....

venturebeat.com

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@brewster_kahle

3 months

@internetarchive argh, still down. @internetarchive had a fix/filter, but then the requests shifted from port 80 to targeting 443. It can be another over-aggressive crawling group, or it can be a directed DDOS attack. Don't know yet. (why usually on weekends?)

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@brewster_kahle

2 years

Why we need to buy and own ebooks? want another reason? ... "Irish Librarians condemn publisher Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections"

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Brewster Kahle

@brewster_kahle

4 years

10 years trying 7 approaches to providing affordable housing for non-profit workers, here are the results so far:

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