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The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization,
but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project.
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars.
“But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently…

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

I bought my first modem at a post-Christmas sale in December 1992, and spent a few shot months discovering BBS’s and the text-based net before getting Mosaic and discover WWW in 1993. It opened up a whole new world! https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11565105…

internetarchive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)
Attached: 1 image Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since. Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html #Wayback1T #In…

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
@…

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

Zufallsfund: im @… liegen alle 49 Jahrgänge der Satire-Zeitschrift "Simplicissimus" (1896-1944). Darin zu blättern ist gar großartig: https://

Simplicissimus magazine : Langen, Albert, 1869-1909 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Simplicissimus was a literary, illustrated satirical German weekly magazine started by Albert Langen in April 1896. The last issue appeared on September 13,...

The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine is s valuable resource but only 1/1000 users donate to its running costs.
You can join them.
Donate to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/donate/

I guess the Internet Archive is now a for-Proffitt...
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115611174274779543

internetarchive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)
Attached: 1 image The Internet Archive welcomes Merrilee Proffitt as director of Democracy’s Library, US! With decades in digital libraries & open knowledge, she’ll expand free, online access to government research, supporting transparency, equity, and democratic engagement. Learn more at our blog ⤵️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/meet-merrilee-proffitt-director-of-democracys-library-us/ @internetarchive

Horse 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:

ORWO Rezepte. Nein, das ist nichts zu kochen/essen, darin geht es um die »Behandlung fotografischer Materialien«. Think Chemiebaukasten: https://archive.org/details/orwo-rezepte-1972/mode/2up

ORWO Rezepte Ausgabe 1972 : VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
ORWO Rezepte: Vorschriften zur Behandlung fotografischer MaterialienThis book contains instructions for processing all common ORWO photographic materials. It...

us_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…

the most excellent @… has posted his tapes from the very tasty looking fly around festival from august, with a bunch of great contemporary acoustic improvisers (powers/rolin, elkhorn) & a few songwriters (myriam gendron, joan shelley). looking forward to getting autumnal with a bunch of these sets soon.

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

"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…

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En die uiteraard vergelijken met de eerste aflevering van de oude Bergerac serie met John Nettles
Bergerac Season 1 E1 Picking It Up - Video Dailymotion
#Bergerac

Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Holy 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

Russian internet provider 'impoverished by 66 million rubles' after Ukrainian cyberattack, HUR source claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/russian-internet-provider-impoverished-by.html

The link leads to a video. Generally speaking I prefer to read rather than watch - but this is an exception
"While the early web promised connection and creativity, today’s internet is increasingly fragmented, paywalled, and dominated by a few powerful platforms.
“The truth is paywalled, and the lies are free”

RE: #CECOT piece is everywhere on the web - even the Internet Archive: #60Minutes ... a #StreisandEffect writ large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

❝Healthy digital spaces need the same foundations as physical ones (roads, rules, records, etc) so we can build the flourishing fun bits on top. If the web’s first generation gave us villages, and the second gave us gross, unliveable megacities, the next one should give us great neighbourhoods — small, knowable, human-scaled spaces where we can actually live together online.❞

(please don't) add me to the group
We talk a lot about how broken the internet is for all of us as individuals. Doomscrolling, algorithmic feeds, overall exhaustion at The Horrors. But this...

Of all the lies of the internet, the worst is probably "the internet is forever".
Anyone who's been here for a while can name hundreds of internet stuff that is completely gone.
(yes, I know about the Internet Archive. I'm also aware of the many blind spots and broken links the Archive has. And of the fact that it isn't really searchable)

It’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

«Peering into Goonworld’s darkest corners has convinced me that what we are dealing with here may well be a structural flaw of networked communication itself. Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults?»
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/

Ok I just found the original #Syndicate by #bullfrog on the #internetarchive and I got distracted there.. for two hours.

Syndicate Plus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Also ForAcorn 32-bit, Macintosh, WindowsPublished byBullfrog Productions, Ltd.Released1994GenreCompilationESRB RatingTeenDescriptionSyndicate Plus is a...

new way to see the breadth and depth of the web, in this case Dutch websites.
fun.
https://display.archive.org/nl
congratulations @…

the Cornell University Library is now online, for free, no registration or login, just there, 76,474 books now tucked in at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cornell

🗾 The second life of Japan's net cafes
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/03/companies/internet-cafe-tokyo-kaiketsu-club/
🆓 …

The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once symbols of urban solitude, these spaces are finding new purpose as coworking hubs for a changing, wired generation.

"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.

Gotta love the Internet Archive posting AI slop into my timeline

Why not enjoy a blast from the past – from when the internet was a more amusing place? https://web.archive.org/web/20080509051458/http://www.bash.org/?top

93 photos released from the Jeffrey Epstein estate (Dec. 12, 2025)
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Topics
Jeffrey Epstein
Item Size 63.6M
https://archive.org/details/house-oversight-034614
Photos originally hosted here:

93 photos released from the Jeffrey Epstein estate (Dec. 12, 2025) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Photos originally hosted here:...

us_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…

@… @…
We rely upon the Internet Archive, original copies and printed material.

Yeah. I miss this internet. I really do.
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115764640377949472

Mela, warum röchelt Jellyfin auf dem Heimserver so?
Hm, vielleicht habe ich herausgefunden, dass das Internet Archive ein umfangreiches Repository uralter Filk-Tapes hat.

Kash Patel's Challenge Coin Is Perfect for Him (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/kash-patel-military-memento-internet/684456/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfD-vjdwuL1UJPB-1cRyvG6k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p43#a251004p43

"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…

“What the coming of the computer did, "just in time," was to make it unnecessary to create social inventions, to change the system in any way. So in that sense, the computer has acted as fundamentally a conservative force, which kept power or even solidified power where it already existed.” Joseph Weizenbaum, 1985

Recently reminded of Straight to Hell, the 1975—20?? zine featuring porny gay stories that were often real life narratives. Transgressive and important documentation. The Internet Archive has PDF scans of 5 edited book collections!
Harvard man, Harvard man,
blond for no reason. I'd
sure as shit quit the Quad
for him, scratch every dance
from my card for him; kiss
sunshine goodbye to open
his fly; trade clothes
for sheets, miss other meets
for him, for him

Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road) - Wim Wenders - Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/im-lauf-der-zeit-kings-of-the-road-1976-wim-wenders (1976, 176min, zw-w)
'Rondreizend reparateur van bioscoopprojectoren Bruno (geweldige rol van Vogler) en de depressieve Robert treffen elkaar onder eigenaardige omstandigheden: laatstgenoemde probeert zichzelf in een rivier te verdrinken maar zijn auto zinkt niet, waarna Bruno hem een lift geeft. ...'
https://www.vprogids.nl/cinema/films/film~386547~im-lauf-der-zeit~.html
Aanrader!
Verder alleen bij Mubi te zien.

project idea (possibly using AI): record a take of songs from old sheet music books
Starting with something like the Grange book of sheet music below and record them ... Apparently the music can get to midi via Play Score 2, and other programs can could sing the lyrics.
or better yet, if anyone wants to perform the songs and upload them to the archive, you could link it into a review of the book.

@…
<https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/wayback-machine_new/> – the official Internet Archive Wayback Machine browser extension for Firefox.

Sure would be cool if one of the big tech companies would give the Internet Archive money to make a full-text searchable index of the Wayback Machine.

"As China struggles with economic discontent, internet censors are silencing those who voice doubts about work, marriage, or simply sigh too loudly online."
Cheer Up, or Else. China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/BC9jY#selection-509.0-509.154

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202…

Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.

Russia's digital iron curtain descends further as Kremlin chokes Internet freedoms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/russias-digital-iron-curtain-descends.html

us_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…

us_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…

us_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…

us_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…

us_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…

us_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…

us_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…