The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

“Compare any two captures of [URL] from our collection of [x] dating from [y] to [z].”

This is great to know about. Now I just need to figure out what to click to do the comparison.

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Blocking archives risks harming the public record.

Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham explains why these concerns are unfounded.

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UPDATE: DOJ has restored the doc showing 4 FBI formal interviews with the Trump accuser, which I reported accurately was taken down. (We still don't have access to 3 of the interviews.)

Link: justice.gov/epstein/file...

Proof the link was down earlier today: web.archive.org/web/20260219...

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Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited.

Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison:

web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.

2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code Contributor The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!

✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

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Hi Brandon,

Thank you for this. We issue 429s as part of our effort to address abusive traffic.

Clearly our efforts are imperfect.

Please feel free to write to info@archive.org so we might follow-up with you more directly is the 429s persist for you.

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🕗 The microfiche livestream runs until 8pm PT tonight—then switches over to silent films & NASA images from Internet Archive collections. 🚀🎞️

Scanning resumes tomorrow during normal hours:
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⏰ 7:30am–3:30pm PT
📴 (Closed on U.S. holidays)

🎬 Watch: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

Hi Justine,

What website (URL)?

It may well be because the site is blocking us.

Yes... they are! At least the vast majority of them.

See: blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

Generally speaking, URLs may be excluded from the Wayback Machine at the request of rights holders.

Thank you!

I see your email Dell. Will respond within 5 min.

The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the web Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely ava...

Did you catch the story about the Wayback Machine on CBS News Sunday Morning? 🌞 David Pogue chatted with @brewster.kahle.org about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch: cbsnews.com/news/the-way...

Yes. Thank you for asking.

We came through it better than many. The new roof we put on our house last year paid off :-).

And, I got to flex our generator and get to know neighbor’s Starlink better.

Now, if the huge hole in HW92 can get fixed…

Hello Bluesky!

It is great to be here.

Greetings from Half Moon Bay, CA.