@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"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.
ht…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialabout the war against the Internet Archive :
🔁 https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/
@chrysn@chaos.socialWeb archiving is troubled: The Internet Archive is under attack constantly, and archive.is/archive.today seems to be on the way towards turning itself and its users into personae non gratae on the web.
Is it now time to turn web archiving into a distributed affair where obtaining the snapshot happens while browsing, and produces a witness statement a la "at this point in time, I observed these responses to those requests", and storing/accessing those becomes decoupled from ob…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThe Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/
@vform@openbiblio.socialFernleihe des Internet Archive (@…) funktioniert
https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/252272
@nohillside@smnn.chImmer wieder toll, wie Internet-Konzerne unsere Daten schützen …
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
https://archive.is/mqXsZ
@makeratschool@kanoa.deIhr kennt natürlich alle die Greatful Dead Collection im Internet Archive. Nicht?
Dann nehmt euch ein bisschen Zeit, es gibt da knapp 18000 Aufnahmen von diversen Konzerten.
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?tab=collection
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgmedia conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:
Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deWordpress-Plugin des Internet Archive erweckt tote Links
Wer seine Webseite mit Wordpress betreibt, kann tote Links automatisch zum Leben erwecken. Ein Plugin reicht.
https://www.heise…
@bourgwick@heads.social
@mia@hcommons.socialI love how everything I write now (or edit after reviews) involves extra steps in looking up Internet Archive links for British Library web pages and blog posts so that links in footnotes actually work.
* I lied, I don't love it.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@vosje62@mastodon.nl
@stiefkind@mastodon.social»Beim Erscheinen des zweiten Theiles der Geschichte von Pommern hat der Verfasser zunächst die Pflicht des Dankes gegen das Gedächtniß des in Gott ruhenden Königs zu bekennen, dessen huldreiche Unterstützung dem Forscher Muße und Freudigkeit zu seinem schweren Werke gewährte.«
SO beginnt man Vorworte 🙂
Quelle: F. W. Barthold, Geschichte von Rügen und Pommern (1840)
@darius@social.linux.pizzaDoes anyone ever feel nostalgia regarding PDAs? As a kid, I first got an old Palm and then a Pocket Loox 720 (with Windows Mobile 2003SE) as a hand-down from my dad.
I have very fond memories of browsing through the depths of the Internet trying to find some cool new program. Most notably though, there was a port of Android you could boot from a CF or SD card, and it was the coolest thing ever:
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaMentre le maggiori piattaforme di streaming aumentano i prezzi, è stata messa su una “nuova” piattaforma, WikiFlix. Che rende disponibili e, cosa non scontata, facilmente ricercabili, oltre 4000 film di pubblico dominio
Il catalogo aggrega contenuti che provengono da diverse fonti, ma soprattutto: Wikimedia Commons, il mai abbastanza amato Internet Archive e YouTube, dotando il tutto di schede informative e rendendo possibile sia guardare i contenuti in streaming, sia scaricarli.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Guardian, FT, NYT, USA Today Co., and others are blocking or limiting the Internet Archive's crawlers to prevent AI crawlers from using IA as a backdoor (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-i…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deDas CIA-Factbook findet sich zumindest im Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260204071503/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
Siehe auch:
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaFor the last few days i was avoiding the online as much as i could on a suicidal episode, self isolating from the noise of the world. Yet paradoxically to some, the best thing to happen during this time and the main reason im back so soon was listening to almost nothing but cassettes from the NOISE-ARCH archive. tap in.
https://archive.org…
@davej@dice.campIf anyone needs me, I’ll be right here rereading Butler’s “War is a Racket”(https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket/) with Creedence’s “Fortunate Son” (https://
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Apple Scorpius CPU architectural specification. (1989)
https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
saved 2019-12-29 https:/…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialDid you miss one of the Web414 meetings in 2007? Looks like we recorded them!
#mke
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgHorse Bots ! -- but not what you think-- but I couldn't resist.
Thank you, Department of Ag leaflets, this one from 1973.
https://archive.org/details/horsebotshowtoco450unit_2/page/n1/mode/2up
(lots of leaflets:
@wraithe@mastodon.socialFrom @… over on BlueSky:
“SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: https://archive.org/detail…
@compfu@mograph.socialThe fact that so many - including Wikipedia - rely on a shady website that (unsurprisingly?) is doing some really shady stuff recently shines a light on major shortcomings of newspaper websites: they want your data to share it with 900 "partners", are nevertheless full of ads and every redesign breaks deep links to their articles.
Like Napster/Limewire before, archive.today provides a service that solves an actual need of many Internet users.
@mia@hcommons.social
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialYeah. I miss this internet. I really do.
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115764640377949472
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Engineering and operations at the Internet Archive.
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
saved 2026-01-20
@floheinstein@chaos.socialHoly moly, Anna's Archive hat Spotify gescraped und archiviert: ~ 300 TiB
https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Alleine die Datenbank mit allen Metadaten ist schon 200 GiB und wird munter via Torrent geteilt
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRE: #CECOT piece is everywhere on the web - even the Internet Archive: #60Minutes ... a #StreisandEffect writ large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
@bourgwick@heads.socialevening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deWhat LLMs and the Turing test¹ tell us: most of us not only are² stochastic parrots³ but are also fine with that – otherwise we would not happily use LLMs to produce all the output we communicate to others.
One could frame this as “insult to humanity” but I prefer to call it telling.
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¹the Turing test does _not_ measure “intelligence”. I recommend to read the original paper:
@gevoel@mastodon.greenJarl: Wat in een schimmig hoekje van het internet begon, is nu overal, van Davos tot het Binnenhof | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/ueF7e
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @stiefkind@mastodon.socialDamals, als die iX noch eine Sonderpublikation der c't war: #vintagecomputing
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgnew way to see the breadth and depth of the web, in this case Dutch websites.
fun.
https://display.archive.org/nl
congratulations @…
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaThere is someone who has taken a lot of old films and used AI to colorize them badly and "boosted" the frame rate from 24 to 60fps and then uploaded this trash to the Internet Archive.
I hate this. Films shot in b&w have an aesthetic that is destroyed by colorizing them. Video games might look better with more frames per second but movies don't. We didn't accidentally settle on 24fps, it was trial and error. A film shot in 60fps looks bad. A movie that has been ar…
@bourgwick@heads.social*screams in historian/normal person who uses the wayback machine* https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/115979614480582544
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgPublic Domain Day short film contest by @… on NPR!
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-56777
@nohillside@smnn.chPulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@pre@boing.worldIt’s about this time of year I like to check my backups and download my archives.
One archive I download is the archive of my Mastodon posts. Pretty much the only one now I’ve left the corporate web really.
I also like to copy the contents of my public fediverse posts into my own diary within my vimwiki.
Keep it all in one place for easy and local search.
Here’s the script I use, it’s very short and just copies the content of every post in the archive into a new diary entry in the vimwiki diary.
If it finds something already there, it appends.
It checks if it’s already written this post into the diary to avoid duplicating it when you run it over and every again every month or year or whatever.
Paste it into a new text-file called toVimWiki.php, download and unzip your mastodon archive, and run the script with php, passing it the path to the archive’s outbox.json and the root diary directory.
My diary is honestly mostly just public posts these days. Ain’t much in it I won’t blab about on the internet for likes and lols.
#archive #mastodon #vimwiki #endOfYear
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"The Richmond is Home to 1 Trillion Web Pages
A Friday afternoon tour of the Internet Archive, which recently celebrated its 29th anniversary".
Nice article about the free tours at the
@…
every friday at 1pm.
@bourgwick@heads.socialgentlemen of a certain age will perhaps appreciate the first issue of dirt, launched in 1992 as sassy magazine's teen boy-aimed spinoff. you know, with crispin glover on the cover. https://archive.org/details/dirt-issue-1-spring-1992/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialCurrently retrieving my old blog.rmendes.net data from the internet archive 2020-2023 with the intent to migrate it to this place !
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
