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Posts by Brewster Kahle

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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...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at archive.org/details/Publ... and YouTube at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ht @holovaty.com @brewster.kahle.org

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Apple turns 50 today 💻

The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️

Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_...

#Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

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Claude Code is more fun than Netflix. Bravo.

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Public domain contest challenges filmmakers to remix Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and more Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.

Public Domain Day short film contest by @archive.org on NPR!

www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2...

A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: archive.org/details/geor...

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graph of ride share vs waymo in SF

graph of ride share vs waymo in SF

thank you, rajbot. here is the graph from that presentation. I did not dig into their references.

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It listed references to where it got each datapoint. and for what it is worth, the ones I had (few) were in line with its numbers. So I think it is as good as my (non-insider) numbers could have been.

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ride hailing trips in San Francisco (helped by chatgpt)

Uber: ~54%
Lyft: ~26%
Waymo: ~8%
Taxis: ~11%

waymo's seem to be everyhere but are only 10% of lyft/uber

total/day ~150k
Uber (ride-hail)~82k-90k/day
Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k
Waymo. ~13k
Taxis (trad) ~15k–20k

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Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂

💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷

🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor!

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️

👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain!

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎

🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>>

✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨

We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm.

Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...

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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

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Wow! this is so great. Lets work together on this!

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Transaction: ae4800e03c1b55324deec6d6a7630e803eef321d6aba257b733c17b83585cc41 | Blockchain.com The easiest and most trusted transaction search engine and block explorer.

Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @archive.org

Thank you crypto folks!

www.blockchain.com/explorer/tra...

to: archive.org/donate/crypt...

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Thank you for finding that! (and in the @archive.org ! extra points)

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American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Vol 47 Iss 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Volume 47, Issue 1.Digitized from IA1514523-07.Previous issue:...

"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "

Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"

really fun, worth reading.

archive.org/details/sim_...

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And In person in San Francisco. Light food, good people, bunch of the Internet Archive UX group.

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

This presentation will show many different ways that people have built services on archive.org data and API's.

The idea is to find others that want to do this, and how the @internetarchive can improve.

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$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow! lower than I imagined. can be as low as $0.12 w lower rates

"...the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling...75,000 pounds...over a 390-mile long-haul route."

tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.
www.electrive.com/2025/12/05/c...

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Stitchting Internet Archive - NL

Each day we collect over 1 billion URL's.

and try: display.archive.org/nl

4 months ago 7 0 1 0

Please come! best time is the tours every friday at 1pm. free. I give the tour when I am in town.

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We bought that building *because* it matched our logo. Our logo came first: by 15 years.

Great building. Former Christian Science church.

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One of humanity’s most important cultural resources

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Just donated to the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine.

You?

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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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15-minute city - Wikipedia

Yes, souped-up golf carts and they are being used for general mobility... In Rome they are common, in Amsterdam they are everywhere!

And in gated communities, like in Palm Springs.

Americans can keep the SUV in the garage and drive LSVs.

(ala 15 minute cities en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minu... )

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It is slower than I would drive around on some roads in SF, but it works. In the city you dont average anything like 25 miles per hour, but I go faster than that often.

but I quickly got used to it. In France, I just learned the Citreon Ami can be driven by 14 year olds.

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