Internet Archive
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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the @waybackmachine.
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We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books:
Internet Archive17,321,659 views • 2 months ago
Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)!
Internet Archive10,496,450 views • 2 years ago
The Internet Archive has an entire museum dedicated to the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It's called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first generation of the internet. Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that somehow survived the decades. 💾 Go find your perfect retro GIF. #ToolsYouCanUse
Internet Archive33,188 views • 13 days ago
Update: is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post:
Internet Archive874,556 views • 2 years ago
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 8-bit #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required to stoke this very 1980s hearth. Thanks to software preservation, the flames are still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #8bit #SoftwarePreservation #ComputerHistory
Internet Archive221,741 views • 10 months ago
🏈 Ready to call the plays? In Football for Windows, created by an ex-college player, you step in as coach & run the game your way. It was once free to copy & play (with a $25 registration to unlock everything) — and now you can play it instantly in-browser at the Internet Archive ➡️ #shareware #retrogaming
Internet Archive190,974 views • 11 months ago
#SpookySeason gets a sinister, shadowy visitor. 🦇 In F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922), Count Orlok’s long fingers and eerie silhouette make this landmark of horror cinema a study in unease. 🕯️ Watch it and more Spooky Stuff in the Internet Archive collections here ⤵️
Internet Archive10,550 views • 12 days ago
Being watched all the time can make growing up feel like a performance. 📱 On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Alexis Durante-Tierney and Helen Vogelsong-Donahue discuss the freedom to experiment, change, and have something that's just your own. MASS SURVEILLANCE AND THE LOSS OF FUN considers what constant surveillance means for that freedom. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: 🧵
Internet Archive16,878 views • 22 days ago
👀 Watch history being preserved, live. At the Internet Archive, government documents and other historical materials are being digitized in real time. 📜➡️💻 You can watch the process happen. No time machine required. ⏳ Just microfiche. 🔍 Tune in and watch preservation happen. 📺 #ToolsYouCanUse
Internet Archive13,030 views • 19 days ago
🌁 San Francisco gets tangled in murder, deception, and a missing statuette in this LibriVox recording of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 public domain classic, THE MALTESE FALCON. 🕵️♂️ 📚 It’s just one of tens of thousands of free public domain audiobooks in the LibriVox Audio Collection on the Internet Archive. From mysteries and adventures to poetry, history, science fiction, and children’s classics, there’s always something new to hear. 🎧 Follow the trail to your next audio adventure 👇 #LibriVox
Internet Archive15,661 views • 25 days ago
Welcome to the Public Domain AUTUMN (1930)! 🍂🌾🌰🥮 This 3rd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies 🎶 cycle was released in February, but the #AutumnEquinox is the time to enjoy it. 👀 Watch the full fall 🍁 short ⤵️ #FallEquinox #SeptemberEquinox #Disney #Animation #ClassicCartoons #VintageAnimation
Internet Archive21,241 views • 1 month ago
🧩 Ever play THE IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ? This maddening Flash game is a snapshot of the weird, inventive web culture that flourished in the 2000s. Its preservation shows why saving Flash matters: creations that once defined everyday web culture can otherwise disappear. 🖥️ 🎮 Thanks to Flash preservation, you can play it on the Internet Archive: #VanishingCulture
Internet Archive29,600 views • 1 month ago
It’s #SpookySeason! 👻🎶 All month long, we're sharing spooky treasures from our collections. We’re kicking things off with MYSTERIOUS MOSE, a 1930 cartoon featuring a proto-Betty Boop singing the eerie title song as a very strange visitor comes a calling. 🕸️ Nearly a century later & Mose is still mysterious! More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️
Internet Archive15,940 views • 28 days ago
👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s tricky treat: HÄXAN, the 1922 silent film about witchcraft, superstition and the persecution of those accused of practicing it. In this sequence, witches take flight through the night, followed by a gathering of dark rituals. This Swedish-financed Danish production was filmed in Denmark. More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ #Halloween
Internet Archive11,250 views • 19 days ago
🌈 The year is 2010. 🎶 "Always" by Erasure is blasting as you mash the Z key ⌨️ in pursuit of a new high score 🏆 all while living your best sparkly robot unicorn life 🦄✨. While we can't actually time travel 🤖, ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK is still playable thanks to digital preservation & emulation via Ruffle. Flash may be gone 👋, but your favorite internet games don't have to be. 🌐 Play it today on the Internet Archive ⤵️
Internet Archive31,080 views • 3 months ago