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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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)!
Internet Archive10,483,253 просмотров • 2 лет назад
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 ⬇️
Internet Archive30,993 просмотров • 7 дней назад
Update: is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post:
Internet Archive873,980 просмотров • 1 год назад
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 Archive221,495 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco. WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was little more than a lightly tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, repackaged to cash in on the tournament & sold for more than 4× the original price. 💸 Its awfulness has been preserved for posterity in the Internet Archive's software collections ⤵️
Internet Archive18,925 просмотров • 15 дней 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 Archive190,708 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio recordings, including this LibriVox reading of the Declaration of Independence, bringing one of America's founding documents to life. We're highlighting documents, recordings, and artifacts that tell the story of America's founding and the anniversaries that followed. Learn more 👇 #AmericanHistory
Internet Archive20,350 просмотров • 21 дней назад
106 years ago today, Hollywood’s ultimate power couple, “America’s Sweetheart” and “Everybody’s Hero,” Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks, arrived in the Soviet Union. Drawn by their admiration for Soviet cinema, they visited Moscow. At Mezhrapom Studios, Pickford planted a kiss on actor Igor Ilyinski. That playful moment inspired director Sergei Komarov’s feature "A Kiss for Mary Pickford," released in 1927. 🎬🌍 Check out this archive of Pickford and Fairbanks items ⤵️ #OTD #silentfilm #classichollywood #sovietcinema
Internet Archive17,096 просмотров • 17 дней назад
🍲 A recipe isn’t the whole story of a cookbook. The crossed-out ingredients, grease stains, penciled-in adjustments, and clippings tucked between the pages… that’s the history we lose when culture becomes just another online commodity to be served up, edited, or erased. Katie Livingston explores what happens when our cultural record is left to platforms built to serve content instead of preserve history. Now on the Future Knowledge podcast special #VanishingCulture series. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
Internet Archive13,562 просмотров • 14 дней назад
CONGRATS AGAIN to “BATTLE LINES” by Jen Zhao & Aaron Sharp 🥈 SECOND PLACE winner in the 2026 Internet Archive Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎬 A tongue-in-cheek doc(mock)umentary tracking the rivalry between Piet Mondrian & Theo van Doesburg over the diagonal line. 22 archival works, Coco Chanel costumes, and perfectly pitched narration. Jen Zhao is a Canadian filmmaker, producer, and actor interested in autofictional works that explore reality, genre, and the experience of making art itself. Aaron Sharp is a screenwriter & actor from Los Angeles. He has an MFA from UCLA TFT and loves acronyms. Watch the full short film ⤵️ #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
Internet Archive14,294 просмотров • 16 дней назад
🔦 We turn the Public Domain Spotlight on ALWAYS (1925) 🎼 Written by Irving Berlin in 1925, ALWAYS became one of the most beloved love songs ever published. This scene from the 1928 film Lonesome lets you hear the classic just a few years after it debuted. Tune into the sheet music in the Internet Archive's collections: #PublicDomain
Internet Archive16,280 просмотров • 19 дней назад
☀️ Summers fade. Home movies help them live on. Time warp back to a 1958 backyard pool party where the whole family's having summer fun. 🏊♀️ 👙🩲 Moments like these weren't meant for history books, yet they speak to us across time. Preserved in the Prelinger Archives, this film follows the same family over ten years, from 1958 to 1968. Preserving home movies preserves the everyday lives that so often go undocumented and unnoticed. 🎞️ Watch the full film ⤵️ Rick Prelinger W6XBE #HomeMovies #FilmPreservation #PrelingerArchives
Internet Archive13,357 просмотров • 15 дней назад
🎬 In 1975, John Wayne urged Americans to celebrate the upcoming Bicentennial by investing in U.S. Savings Bonds, linking patriotism with the nation's future. It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸 Learn more in our blog ⤵️ #AmericanHistory
Internet Archive18,704 просмотров • 24 дней назад
💾 We often think of online platforms like YouTube and Flickr as permanent homes for our photos and videos. They're not. On the Future Knowledge podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Luca Messarra explains why relying on commercial platforms puts both our personal and shared cultural memory at risk. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
Internet Archive15,658 просмотров • 20 дней назад
Welcome to the Public Domain SUMMER (1930)! ☀️🌻🐝🌴 This 2nd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies cycle was released in January, but we've saved it to mark the #SummerSolstice. 😎 👀 Watch the full short ➡️ #Solstice #JuneSolstice #Disney #Animation #ClassicCartoons #VintageAnimation
Internet Archive23,229 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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
Internet Archive100,997 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
Musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel sent a special congratulatory message to Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, on being honored as a 2026 Computer History Museum Fellow at the April 25 gala ceremony. In his message, Gabriel speaks to the importance of preserving and sharing knowledge, work that has defined Kahle’s vision for the Internet Archive. Watch Gabriel’s message and more on our blog ⤵️ #BrewsterKahle #InternetArchive #ComputerHistoryMuseum #CHMFellows #DigitalPreservation #WaybackMachine #PeterGabriel Peter Gabriel Brewster Kahle
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