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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)
that is a good idea. We should have an open-house at the Physical Archive. I will look into it.
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Yes, the is trying to preserve one copy of Every Book Ever Published (both digitally and physically)
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 ! 🎶
blog.archive.org/2022/01/01/wel
Our new facility will safely house and preserve millions of books, records, films, videos, floppies, ...!
Long live libraries and archives.
Please donate to the Internet Archive if you can.
archive.org/donate
We are a bargain! Serving millions every day with books music video and web archives.
Please help keep everything freely available.
Power outage at an datacenter that is knocking out archive.org and openlibrary.org. No estimated time of repair yet. :(
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#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
San Francisco: If #xfinity still down tomorrow and you need Internet... come to the after 8am.
We have 100Gbits/sec (really) and Free. (Vax proof + mask required)
Wayback Machine is on a tear: now 784Billion web objects (~784,103,430,000) at web.archive.org uh, please donate to support archive.org/donate all of this is important and expensive.
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. blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/int
20,000 texts and movies from 1923 now public domain in the US and free to bulk download and play with! yippie! blog.archive.org/2019/01/05/a-p via
$3000 donated anonymously to the in bitcoin just now. Made our day! blockchain.info/address/1Archi Thank you!
Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down
What just happened on archive.org today, as best we know: blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let
blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let
Wayback Machine evidence holds up in court: not our original target use, but glad it is not doubted in court. go
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Patent Owner’s Challenge to Wayback Machine Evidence Fails ow.ly/pneM308CYPN @AKKLawFirm #ip #patent
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
The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars
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!
sfchronicle.com/tech/article/H via and
"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.
703,726,890,000 URL's now in the by the ! (703 billion) Over a billion more added each week. The Web is a grand experiment in sharing and giving. Loving it! web.archive.org
An obscure copyright law is letting the Internet Archive distribute books published 1923-1941 boingboing.net/2017/10/10/lib
Pages from the Wayback Machine were "admissible" in many court cases. Many. This is an article that lists lots:
lexology.com/library/detail
what a world.
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
the has added a Mastodon Server
mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchi
fyi: I'm
mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle
blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we- via
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 ! go AFP!
78rpm records, by the thousand, are being uploaded to Right Now!
Many are wacky or charming, but in a familiar kind of way.
Here are this month's uploads, in most recently-uploaded-first:
archive.org/details/george
archive.org/details/78_oh-
Please consider donating to the Internet Archive-- one accomplishment-- We Fixed More than 6 Million Broken Links in Wikipedia. archive.org/donate/ blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/mor
"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.
blog.archive.org/2023/02/07/our
You chose a name that is too confusing with the Internet Archive -- please change the name of your organization. Confusion like this is avoidable. Thank you.
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We are sorry for the outage at A graph we dont like to see... (but you can see it coming up on the right hand side):
Here is Twitter's deleted their policy page and their tweet about it.
Patrons of used the Save Page Now feature to save it.
old tweet page and current missing page (/w to archived policy page): web.archive.org/web/2022121818
Wayback Machine now has 626,323,941,000 web objects in it-- 626Billion! (includes pages but also images and such). wow. go !
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
Internet Archive is the 2nd most popular .org non-profit according to Alexa Internet #159 (after Wikipedia #14). go
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cool graphic poster: visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/upl
Wayback Machine now has 715,436,106,000 web-objects in it, your history, my history, our history. go ! (and used by hundreds of thousands of people each day. )
"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."
651,621,510,000 web URL's now in the Wayback Machine by . Billions and Billions of web pages! users hitting "save page now" at 100 per second:
web.archive.org
Libraries vs Bookstores? No, False dichotomy. They are different Animals. Both necessary, both valuable, and very different. brewster.kahle.org/2020/07/28/lib
"Truth Might Fracture" said 's Exec Dir to me 3 years ago. It chilled me to my spine. So we redirected much of the for 3 years, and this is where I announce what we have done: youtube.com/watch?v=Az4Bpu Books<->Wikipedia blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/wea
Wayback Machine updated! now with about 690,991,926,000 web objects. Billions and Billions. Millions and Millions of users. go go wayback! web.archive.org
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 blog.archive.org/2020/03/09/con
New Wayback Machine data build with 554,260,965,000 URL's (554 Billion)! go
Now 750 Billion web objects now in the Wayback Machine. (that be Billions and Billions). Love the sharing going on on the web. go go !
Happy 25th anniversary !
The cake was fantastic and well enjoyed and the lights are still on in the cake!
Heart is out to University of Cape Town's library & community-- burning now.
Lets digitize everything now.
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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
Announcing a National Emergency Library –1.4 million free books to meet students’ and readers’ needs while schools and libraries are closed at global scale. blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/ann and browse the collection at archive.org/nel
Library's roles: Preservation and Access
Easy to say, hard to do
Access is under pressure (banned books, lawsuit against the ).
Preservation is always hard and difficult to fund. is at the forefront of very long term preservation
What next?
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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.
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 and thank you Thomas Kemp for donating.
archive.org/details/george
archive.org/details/78_car
washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0
Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
is why we need libraries to own digital books:
blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/dig via
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?
6000+ new 78rpm records uploaded. including jazzy one without a label-- truly "found" records archive.org/details/78_non and one from 1905 from "Harvard Disc Record" before it was Columbia: archive.org/details/78_the
all 6,000: archive.org/details/george
go !
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. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/scholar /1
Wayback Machine now has 284,431,853,894 webpages (284 billion). Wow. go
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:
Ever wonder how many web URL's the has archived and is in the wayback?drum roll... 567,683,748,000 (567Billion) as of today
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.
archive.org/details/daniel
Thank you, Misha for all that work.
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! ♥️
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibr)
Loving the newly digitized old LP's going up on Archive.org it is like coming back from the record store with a new record, and every day, and it is free! Try: archive.org/details/lp_bes go !
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Well, PG&E has updated info for the outage that encompanses the datacenter ---
"PG&E is assessing the cause at the outage location."
And the is in the list of possible $100million projects! Feels like being nominated for the oscars. blog.archive.org/2017/02/15/int
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MacArthur Foundation Picks Eight Projects That Could Change the World nytimes.com/2017/02/15/us/
Wayback Machine just got bigger: now 654,193,926,000 web objects. (654 billion). go go @archiveitorg !
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 go ! archive.org/web
Mostly Japanese 78rpm records donation! Thank you, Nana Spence of Victoria, BC. Coming to archive.org/details/george soon.
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"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...
Beloved Recycled Records donates their complete collection to the Internet Archive for preservation and access. Thank you Bruce Lyall! sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3765187-
Microfiche and Microfilm contains so much that has not made it to the web.
I love that the is working to fix this!
(Loving archive.org interface as opposed to those old ufilm/ufiche readers 😀 )
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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: blog.archive.org/2022/03/15/new
The Web is so good, now lets do great: open, private, reliable #ForTheWeb Decentralized Web is an approach. 3 cheers for together, we can.
"the future belonged to Microfilm"! We are digitizing ufilm at scale now-- thank you for those that came before the digital age.
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#OnThisDay 1967: Paper's days were numbered - the future belonged to microfilm.
Search Scholarly Materials Preserved in the Internet Archive-- I love this. blog.archive.org/2021/03/09/sea go !
Ignoring Robots.txt Files for Archiving .gov and .mil Websites. blog.archive.org/2016/12/17/rob
Drum roll please... 100 (one hundred) 78rpm sides are being added each hour over the next 2 days-- go go go! archive.org/details/george rules. (and thank you and )
More 78's to play from our library! Uploading 9,000+ right now (adding to the 250,000 already there) archive.org/details/george
many oldies: archive.org/details/78_you
Thank you to for bringing many to Public Domain on 1/1/2022
I am in sri lanka, in the city public library is a case of Arthur C Clark's personal library: many had inscriptions, like from Carl Sagan.
We will miss Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Proud day when he came to the Internet Archive with Peter Schumann.
Wayback Machine now has 571,233,306,000 URL's-- more than double 4.5 years ago. go !
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The Wayback Machine project of the Internet Archive, headed by @brewster_kahle, now has 240 billion URLs. ow.ly/gSk1t
Nice portrait of 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...
Internet Archive aims to preserve 100 terabytes of government website data… just in case
526,452,090,000 web objects now in the Wayback Machine. Go ! Billion more coming soon.
Interlibrary Loan starting at the Internet Archive! Launches New Pilot Program for Interlibrary Loan -- pls help us learn blog.archive.org/2021/04/27/int via
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archive.org is back up-- or coming up. Thank you PG&E (though time to be an infrastructure org)
10 years trying 7 approaches to providing affordable housing for non-profit workers, here are the results so far: brewster.kahle.org/2020/06/28/res
Internet2, ho! The generally exchanges 2gigabits/sec to Universities for research and stuff, and then, 7Gbits! all good, we love it. (Thank you )
datamining and machine learning start analyzing whole collections-- what a library is for!
Open Source OCR just got better... Tesseract 5 tag 5.0.0-alpha is much faster. Can you see when we changed to it?
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"
libraryassociation.ie/irish-libraria
Happy Earth Day, Celebrate with some animated earth gifs. gifcities.org/?q=earth thank you and we miss you, geocities communities.
Wayback Machine now has 556,444,029,000 URL's of which 294,208,126,827 are pages. (bilions and billions!) go !
Announcing the "Lost Vinyl" feed: Long out-of-print Vinyl Record every hour-- digitized, downloadable, listenable, sometimes lovable.
Just Follow: twitter.com/lostvinyl_ia
Now 584,244,531,000 web objects in the wayback machine! Hopefully pages you care about. Pls support . go open!
Wayback Machine useful as a record of what happened? Yes. Cited in over 2,000 federal cases so far. courtlistener.com/?q=%22archive. And all free. Please donate archive.org/donate
Wayback Machine now updated to have 862billion URL's-- (really, that is a big number) is cranking! Collected 1/3 of all of its data in just this last year. web.archive.org Please support: archive.org/donate
Rick Prelinger was brave enough to open up his film archive even though he made his income from stock footage sales from those same films.
It worked out for him because people will pay sometimes for things they can also get for free. And pay enough.
Important. Thank you Rick.
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I kind of let this go by, but 2021 is the 20th anniv of our online film archive. This was new (6 years pre-YouTube) & pretty scary to start but thanks to @brewster_kahle and @internetarchive there are now 8500+ films online that have been seen & used 100s of millions of times.
99.9k followers of . Not a rock star, but not bad for a library! Love that people want to know things deeply and think deeply.
Copyright Public Modernization Committee of the Library of Congress: I am happy to be appointed to it, hope I can help.
Lets see what we can do. copyright.gov/newsnet/2021/8
"A danger to democracy itself": Authors fight back against limiting libraries' digital rights
Good article in
