“People aren’t sure what’s true, and what libraries are here for is to help with that.” Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive, discusses the future of the Wayback Machine in ABC Radio National (🇦🇺 Australia)’s “Wayback Machine: The internet’s archive in peril,” a look at how media... companies are restricting the preservation of the web itself. 🎧 Listen ⤵️ #ABCRN #WaybackMachine #InternetHistory #WebArchiving #SundayExtra ABC Australia ABC News Brewster Kahleshow more

Information preservation is quietly becoming a struggle over power, memory, and institutional influence. It’s very real and infuriating for researchers, take it seriously. The not so obvious, deeper issue goes beyond into whether societies keep an independent historical record strong enough to verify claims, challenge revisionism, and preserve public knowledge outside centralized political, corporate, or algorithmic control. Combined with platform restrictions, paywalls, and link rot, entire sections of the traditional web are becoming harder to retain or independently verify. At this point Internet Archive and similar archives feel a lot less like nostalgia projects, in fact if the true level of disruption in its totality was laid bare they would likely be deemed as critical civic infrastructure.

I WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT TF YOU ARE REFERRING TO BC INTERNET ARCHIVE THINKS IT IS OKAY TO VIOLATE MY RIGHTS BY LOCKING EVERYTHING UNDER A PARENT DIRECTORY THAT I DID NOT AUTHORIZE