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:
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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)!
Internet Archive10,484,795 просмотров • 2 лет назад
🧩 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
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Update: is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post:
Internet Archive874,313 просмотров • 1 год назад
📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can actually be the product of a system. In BIG FICTION, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues that books are often shaped by a much larger industrial system: agents, editors, marketers, wholesalers & others whose decisions can affect the words on the page. Hear Sinykin in conversation with humanities scholar Ted Underwood on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen & subscribe:
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What we read today was shaped by economic forces that transformed publishing decades ago. 📚 In BIG FICTION on the Future Knowledge #podcast, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin explains how consolidation, new distribution systems & chain bookstores created the conditions for a new publishing model, in conversation with humanities scholar Ted Underwood. 🎧 Listen & subscribe:
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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 Archive221,647 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
🏈 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 Archive190,827 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
Fair use is not a loophole in copyright. It is a core principle that helps creativity, education, and culture thrive. ⚖️ In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi explain how understanding copyright's balance can make it easier for creators, educators, librarians, and researchers to confidently use their rights. Hear their conversation with Authors Alliance's Dave Hansen on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎙️ 🎧 Listen & subscribe: Authors Alliance
Internet Archive19,245 просмотров • 24 дней назад
💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it's been preserved. In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi join Dave Hansen to explain how communities can put fair use into practice. One example: after the dance community developed a Code of Best Practices, archives began confidently sharing excerpts of historic performance footage online. 📚🎞️ Hear Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi with Dave Hansen on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen & subscribe:
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🌈 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 ⤵️
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If you don't know the words to search for, history can feel like it never existed. Finding and preserving queer history takes more than a catalog. It takes people willing to share knowledge and preserve what others overlook or reject. On the Future Knowledge podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Brooke Palmieri explores why preserving queer memory is a community project. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
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💾 Culture is increasingly shaped by platforms we don't control. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, the concluding episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić reflects on living in an age where access, ownership, and memory are increasingly mediated by commercial platforms. 🌐 🎧 Listen & subscribe: 🧵
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Welcome to the Public Domain, THE PICNIC (1930) 🐕 🐾 Little Rover barked onto the scene as Minnie’s dog in THE PICNIC (1930). He’d get a new name (Pluto) & a new owner, Mickey Mouse, the following year. Learn more ➡️ #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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🚤🌊 Nancy Drew's lakeside adventure takes a dangerous turn in this clip from a LibriVox reading of the 1930 public domain classic, THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY. 🔍 📚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. 🎧 Find your next audio adventure 👇 #Books
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Annie Rauwerda has built a career exploring Wikipedia’s weirdest corners 🌐 The creator of Depths of Wikipedia says, “If Wikipedia is worth anything at all, it’s because of the citations.” She’s had a “simultaneous love affair with the Internet Archive and Wikipedia” as she embraces the spirit of the open web & the community of people who support this work. Read more 👉 Annie? Rauwerda? depths of wikipedia! #DepthsofWikipedia The Wayback Machine #Wikipedia Internet Archive
Internet Archive68,433 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад