Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. | Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p... #archives #webarchives
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But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the web's traditional robots.txt rules. That risks cutting off a record that historians and journalists have relied on for decades. Other newspapers, including The Guardian, seem to be following suit. For nearly three decades, historians, journalists, and the public have relied on the Internet Archive to preserve news sites as they appeared online. Those archived pages are often the only reliable record of how stories were originally published. In many cases, articles get edited, changed, or removed—sometimes openly, sometimes not. The Internet Archive often becomes the only source for seeing those changes. When major publishers block the Archive’s crawlers, that historical record starts to disappear.
Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web's Historical Record www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... from @eff.org
#webarchives #webhistory #fairuse #openweb #techpolicy
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"A Glimpse into How #AI Tools Can Enhance the Way We Study Web Archive Content: Challenges and Opportunities" (by Jhon G. Botello, via Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group, ODU) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026... #archives #webarchives #webarchiving #GenAI #LLMs #libraries
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Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive Founder and Director) is the Guest on the Latest Episode of ATG The Podcast www.infodocket.com/2026/03/10/i... @archive.org @chashub.bsky.social #libraries #oa #archives #webarchives
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Report: The DOJ Has Been Taking Down Epstein Files. Here’s What Remains (via @cbsnews.com) www.cbsnews.com/projects/202... #archives #webarchives
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Feb 2026 information labs recap
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/februa...
⇒ New #HumansOfAI Perspectives report from the AI lab
⇒ Reflections on #SocialMediaBans, #copyright, #WebArchives & EU #AI policy
⇒ #DigitalNetworksAct feedback open
⇒ New 3 THINGS series
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Two of one hundred college drawings by Cindy Rehm as part of The Seers, a project using images largely sourced from historic books at the Internet Archive. The right featues a feather, a seated woman's bare back, a statue of a nude woman, and the Moon, all arranged over the features of a cat's face. The left depicts a statue of a nude woman, a vase, shells, and a dress.
Enter a world of mystic cats & feminist histories 🐈✨
Internet Archive’s latest Artist in Residence, Cindy Rehm, brings the Archive’s collections to life in THE SEERS.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/19/t...
@internetarchive #ArtistInResidence #WebArchives #FeministArt #CollageArt
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Promotional slide captioned “Ways of Working with the Wayback Machine, 9 February 2026, Internet Archive HQ,” with Internet Archive Europe and Wayback Machine logos at the top. The slide includes a photo of about ten adults seated in a bright room with large windows and wooden floors, arranged in a casual circle discussion. To the right is a graphic of a magnifying glass over a document icon.
🧵 Curious how researchers, journalists, and artists dig into the web’s past? 🌐
WAYS OF WORKING WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE shows how the #WaybackMachine opens up a world of discovery and creativity.
Learn more ⤵️
www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w...
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Ways of Working With The Wayback Machine (via @internetarchive.eu)
www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w... #webarchives #archives @archive.org
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Wayback Machine Director Pushes Back on #AI Scraping Fears Driving Archive Blocks (via @archive.org) blog.archive.org/2026/02/18/w... #libraries #webarchives
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The CIA's "World Factbook" has been around for over 60 years. In regularly updated editions, it summarizes basic information and statistical data for regions of the world and all countries. Initially, it was classified and intended for US government employees, but versions for the public have existed since the 1970s. The Factbook went online in 1994, making the data collection significantly older than Wikipedia, than Google, and than most of the internet offerings still accessible today – including heise online. It most recently included over 5000 public domain photos, many of them vacation pictures from CIA employees. According to the announcement, the Factbook will now be discontinued entirely, meaning the printed editions as well as the internet version.
"The World Factbook": CIA unexpectedly closes an internet veteran www.heise.de/en/news/The-...
No real explanation given www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Wayback Machine's full-text search of archived pages web.archive.org/collection-s...
#openweb #webarchives #censorship
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Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the #CIA World Factbook www.infodocket.com/2026/02/08/i... #webarchives #govdocs #ciaworldfactbook @archive.org
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The Wayback Machine is Looking to Make Deadlinks a Thing of the Past (via BetaNews) betanews.com/article/the-... #archives #webarchives #publishing #linkrot
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Report: "The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting" (via @hackernoon.com) hackernoon.com/the-long-now... #archives #webarchives @archive.org
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Milestones: Web #Archiving at the Library After 25 Years (via @librarycongress.bsky.social) blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20... #archives #webarchives #libraries
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Fun Library Kiosk and Novel Web-Based Display of Millions of Web Pages (via @archive.org) blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f... #webarchives #archives
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She jumped into an impromptu discussion about connecting wider research communities to historical Internet data as part of the Internet Data Trust work. #InternetArchive #WebArchives #InternetData #Research #DataTrust #DigitalPreservation /end
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Many thanks to @internetsociety.bsky.social for hosting a great workshop where @murchstudio.com shared lessons from @internetarchive.eu. #InternetArchive #WebArchives #InternetData #Research #DataTrust #DigitalPreservation /1
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PS: If you do not have access to one of these documents, send us a message 🥸
#lostmedia #lostwave #research #webarchives #internetarchives
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The Case For Preserving Scholarly Blogs (via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social) blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #scholcomm #libraries #webarchives #archives
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Wonderful and Exciting News!!! Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library (via @internetarchive)blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/meet-merrilee... #archives #archives #webarchives #democracy
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Wonderful and Exciting News!!! Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library (via @archive.org) blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/m... #archives #archives #webarchives #democracy
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Inside the Old Church Where One Trillion Webpages are Being Saved (via @cnn.com) edition.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t... #archives #internetarchive #webarchives #libraries
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archive.org down?
(weirdly whenever I see it may be down I think... okay, this might just be the beginning of the end...)
#Archives #WebArchives #digipres #IsThisTheEnd
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One Trillion Web Pages Archived: Internet Archive Celebrates a Civilization-Scale Milestone (via @archive.org) blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/o... & 'The Truth is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web (via @pcmag.com) www.pcmag.com/news/the-tru... #web #webarchives
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Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown envirodatagov.org/federal-agencies-post-in... @internetarchive #usgov #webarchives
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Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown envirodatagov.org/federal-agen... @envirodgi.bsky.social @archive.org #usgov #webarchives
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Milestones: Internet Archive Celebrates One Trillion Web Pages Preserved www.infodocket.com/2025/10/20/m... #webarchives #archives #digipres #libraries
@brewster.kahle.org @archive.org
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Milestones: Internet Archive Celebrates One Trillion Web Pages Preserved www.infodocket.com/2025/10/20/milestones-in... #webarchives #archives #digipres #libraries […]
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‼️ ATTENTION ‼️
⏰ Proposals for #iipcWAC26, "Sustainable #WebArchiving," in Brussels are due in 1 WEEK (15 OCT): netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP
First-time submitters encouraged! Need inspiration?
www.youtube.com/@iipc8855/fe...
#WebArchives #WebArchiveWednesday #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities
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