Internet Archive Forums: News http://archive.org/iathreads/forum-display.php?forum=news The most recent posts from the IA forum: News en-us info@archive.org Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:23:38 UTC Re: Far Out Magazine: Over 100,000 historic vinyl records are being digitised and made available to stream online for free http://archive.org/post/1123778 Fri, 22 Apr 2022 09:39:42 UTC Great!

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 Hooniverse: Wayback Machine Allows a Peek into Defunct Detroit Automaker Websites http://archive.org/post/1105618 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:19:28 UTC The WayBack Machine is an archive of the internet. Not everything is available, but many websites from even the nineties can still be accessed. That got me thinking; what were the websites of defunct ...

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 Laughing Squid: An Amazing Collection of Pulp Magazines Going Back 75 Years Is Available Online at The Internet Archive http://archive.org/post/1105617 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:04:27 UTC n their admirable mission to keep history alive, the Internet Archive worked with anonymous contributors, The Pulp Magazines Project and The Pulp to scan an amazing collection of Pulp Magazines and pu...

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 Far Out Magazine: Over 100,000 historic vinyl records are being digitised and made available to stream online for free http://archive.org/post/1105085 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:37:23 UTC As part of a new major project launched by the Internet Archive, over 100,000 vinyl records are being digitised and made available to stream online for free.<br /><br />The Internet Archive, a non-pro...

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 GigaZine: ウェブ上の情報を記録・保存する「インターネット・アーカイブ」の存続をひっそりと脅かしているものとは？ http://archive.org/post/1104906 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:15:44 UTC ...

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 ActuaLitte: Plongez dans l'art japonais de la fin du XIXe siècle grâce à ce magazine numérisé http://archive.org/post/1104905 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:10:20 UTC Parce qu'Internet a vraiment rapproché les frontières, la numérisation permet aussi d'avoir accès à des ressources d'un patrimoine culturel situé de l'autre coté de la planète. Le réseau de b...

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 Library Journal: Better World Libraries, Internet Archive Partner, Acquires Better World Books http://archive.org/post/1104904 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:00:50 UTC The Internet Archive (IA) on November 6 announced that its longtime not-for-profit partner, Better World Libraries, had acquired Better World Books, a mission-driven for-profit bookseller that has don...

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 Open Culture: The Internet Archive Is Digitizing &amp; Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now http://archive.org/post/1104375 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 01:26:00 UTC There seems to be widespread agreement—something special was lost in the rushed-to-market move from physical media to digital streaming. We have come to admit that some older musical technologies ca...

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 Against The Grain: ATG Newsflash: For the Love of Literacy–Better World Books and the Internet Archive Unite to Preserve Millions of Books http://archive.org/post/1104377 Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:33:32 UTC Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle gave a keynote address at the Charleston Conference this morning in which he and Better World Books CEO, Dustin Holland, announced that Better World Books is no...

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 Research Information: Better World Books affiliates with Internet Archive http://archive.org/post/1104376 Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:29:39 UTC Better World Books, the socially conscious online bookseller, is now owned by Better World Libraries – a mission-aligned, not-for-profit organisation that is affiliated with longtime partner, the In...

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 Wired: The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable http://archive.org/post/1104244 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:12:09 UTC Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first s...

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 BoingBoing: The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned http://archive.org/post/1104241 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:58:51 UTC The Internet Archive's Open Library scans books that they have physical copies of, then lends the resulting ebooks to its patrons, building on the precedent set in 2014's Hathi Trust ruling.<br><br>T...

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 BetaNews: Internet Archive makes its content available offline http://archive.org/post/1104243 Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:09:42 UTC The Internet Archive is a massive and incredibly useful resource that offers access to millions of books, games, software, audio and video files, and cached versions of websites via the recently updat...

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 GHacks: Internet Archive's Wayback Machine gets Compare and Collections features http://archive.org/post/1104242 Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:04:59 UTC The Internet Archive launched several new (beta) features to the site's Wayback Machine recently that bring compare, better save to archive and collections features to the site.<br><br>The site's Wayb...

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 Fast Company: Fill dead time with these 5 free boredom-busting apps, games, and sites http://archive.org/post/1103614 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:08:56 UTC The business meeting: champion of information exchange, killer of productivity, and rarely a great use of each and every attendee’s time.<br><br>Whether you love meetings or wish death upon them wit...

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 Financial Times: How the Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation http://archive.org/post/1103615 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:17:49 UTC On a foggy September lunchtime in San Francisco, a group of researchers and data scientists sat around foldable plastic tables in what was once a Christian Science church, evangelising about open-sour...

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 Gizmodo: 11 Incredibly Useful Websites You Might Not Know About http://archive.org/post/1102941 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:05:02 UTC The internet is a big place, and there’s no shame in not having gotten around to exploring every last corner of it—but just in case you’ve missed out on some of the very best sites the web has t...

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 PC Mag: How to View a Cached Version of a Website http://archive.org/post/1102943 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:09:19 UTC It's easy to forget the impermanence of the internet. Pages are edited without warning and websites can disappear overnight.<br><br>There are plenty of ways to lose access to a site or web page. Maybe...

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 BoingBoing: Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain http://archive.org/post/1102942 Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:06:47 UTC This January, we celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain, as the onerous terms of the hateful Sonny Bono Copyright Act finally developed a leak, putting all works produced in 1923 into t...

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 Medium: How to Access Pages Missing from the Internet http://archive.org/post/1102944 Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:11:34 UTC 404 pages have gotten more creative over the years. <br><br>However, that does not make them less annoying, especially when searching for critical data. Pages can disappear for many reasons: someone f...

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 BoingBoing: A free, accessible, hyperlinked version of the Mueller Report http://archive.org/post/1102940 Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:01:44 UTC The Internet Archive, the Digital Public Library of America and Muckrock have released a version of the Mueller Report as an Epub with 747 live footnotes, fully compliant with both Web and EPUB access...

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 NBC News: Building a new Internet: The bold plan to decentralize the web http://archive.org/post/1102184 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 21:42:09 UTC Tech entrepreneur Mark Nadal is a dreamer who longs for a world with less greed and more community. He believes the Internet will make this possible — just not the Internet we have now. Read full <...

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 TheNextWeb: The Wayback Machine can now highlight changes in copy on websites http://archive.org/post/1101823 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:06:50 UTC Since its launch in 2001, the Wayback Machine has been a very useful digital archive of the World Wide Web. By frequently crawling and caching pages for the archive, the Wayback Machine has amassed o...

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 Reader's Digest: 15 Ways to Download and Listen to Free Audiobooks (Legally) http://archive.org/post/1102185 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:46:27 UTC Readers and non-readers alike can enjoy the wonderful storytelling of a good audiobook, but when some of your favorite titles are retailing on audio for upwards of $40, the newest trend in literature ...

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 GNT: La Wayback Machine peut signaler les changements sur les sites http://archive.org/post/1102183 Sat, 06 Jul 2019 21:39:44 UTC La Wayback Machine de l'Internet Archive permet notamment d'explorer plus de 366 milliards copies de pages web qui ont été sauvegardées au fil du temps. Un travail d'archivage grâce auquel tout in...

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 TechAeris: What happened to the ‘old internet’? We used to have so much variety and choice – it’s all collapsed, or has it? http://archive.org/post/1101626 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:17:58 UTC The internet brings the world into people’s homes, enabling people to interact with worldwide events in a way that television can’t. People can share information in real time on social media and c...

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 MediaPost: Can Dweb Save The Internet? http://archive.org/post/1101625 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:14:50 UTC On a mysterious farm just above the Pacific Ocean, the group who built the internet is inviting a small number of friends to a semi-secret gathering. They describe it as a camp "where diverse people c...

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 KQED: An Idiosyncratic 'Recorder' of Television Sheds Light on How the News Shapes History http://archive.org/post/1101624 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:12:07 UTC As much as we like to talk about learning from the past, how often do we do the hard work actually revisiting it? Yes, I’m talking about time travel. And while people outside the Marvel Cinematic Un...

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 La Lettura: Nella memoria della rete http://archive.org/post/1101623 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:08:34 UTC «Con la distruzione della biblioteca di Alessandria andò persa una parte della conoscenza del mondo. Non deve più accadere. Oggi abbiamo tante biblioteche con i volumi di carta, ma le loro versioni...

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 The London Free Press: Will there be a virtual afterlife? The race is on to save our digital selves from oblivion http://archive.org/post/1101269 Thu, 23 May 2019 21:54:12 UTC Alfred Nobel may be best known as the founder of the Nobel Prize, but he also invented dynamite. When his brother died in 1888, newspapers accidentally wrote obituaries for Alfred, blasting him for ma...

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 Historians.org: Data Overload- Web Archives and the Challenges of Scale http://archive.org/post/1101027 Mon, 13 May 2019 21:37:50 UTC Imagine future historians studying the public discourse on autism in the early 21st century. They sift through an archive as vast as anything we know today, but they must contend with born-digital sou...

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 Library Journal: Internet Archive Expands Partnerships for Open Libraries Project http://archive.org/post/1101026 Mon, 13 May 2019 21:30:49 UTC The Internet Archive is seeking partners for its Open Libraries project. Recent contributors include Trent University, Ont., which donated more than 250,000 books last year during the renovation of it...

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 Atlas Obscura: The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History http://archive.org/post/1101025 Mon, 13 May 2019 21:28:48 UTC About 71,000 VHS and Betamax cassettes are sitting in boxes, stacked 50-to-a-pallet in the Internet Archive’s physical storage facility in Richmond, California, waiting to be digitized. The tapes ar...

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 Team Human: Ep. 128 Brewster Kahle "The Library of Everything" http://archive.org/post/1100609 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 22:02:37 UTC Playing for Team Human today, founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle. Kahle is keeping the dream of building a decentralized, open, mind-expanding internet alive. In this Team Human conversat...

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 The Irish Times: Archiving the Net: ‘Preserving the web isn’t impossible’ http://archive.org/post/1100608 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:57:08 UTC Our experience of modern history is informed as much from news reels, magazines and personal journals as it is by the physical artefacts we see in museums. Imagine our understanding of the second Wor...

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 The Power of Libraries: Welcome Open Libraries Project http://archive.org/post/1100610 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:06:14 UTC We are delighted to count our friends at Internet Archive’s Open Libraries project among the allies and resources for the National Agenda for Ebooks! The Open Libraries Project seeks to “bring fo...

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 Marketplace: If it’s online, it’s not permanent. Internet archives can disappear. http://archive.org/post/1100322 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:48:49 UTC Here's a list of things that have disappeared or changed on the internet in just the past few weeks: The social network Google Plus shut down, taking all its archives with it. That includes the profil...

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 Smithsonian Institution Archives: Searching and Using Web Archives http://archive.org/post/1100321 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:46:10 UTC Manuscripts, field books, images, and documents are not the only resources for historical information. Researchers, scholars, and journalists also are making use of website and social media archives. ...

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 ID Boox: 50 000 disques 78 Tours numérisés mis en ligne et gratuits http://archive.org/post/1100323 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:50:26 UTC La collection de disques de 78 Tours de la bibliothèque publique de Boston (USA) est disponible en ligne et gratuitement. Après 18 mois de travail, la collection de disques 78 tours de la Boston Pu...

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 WBUR: By Archiving Our Lives Online, Are We At Risk Of Losing More Than Just Data? http://archive.org/post/1100195 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:45:28 UTC The Myspace music purge. The Google+ shutdown. As you store your life’s archive online, what happens when it’s taken away? Listen to full <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/04/01/myspace-...

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 Today: The Internet Archive wants to be a digital library for everything http://archive.org/post/1100191 Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:22:25 UTC A nonprofit company housed in an old church in California is creating a digital library of, well, as much as they can to store it for future generations. Dasha Burns of NBC News Now has this week’s ...

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 Folio: U of A digitization project aims to make valuable research accessible to all http://archive.org/post/1100078 Mon, 25 Mar 2019 18:16:12 UTC The University of Alberta Libraries is digitizing more than 14,000 master’s and PhD theses produced at the university since its establishment in 1908, part of a program that aims to digitize as much...

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 Forbes: Society Desperately Needs an Alternative Web http://archive.org/post/1099945 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:20:13 UTC I see a society that is crumbling. The rampant technology is simultaneously capsizing industries that were previously the bread and butter of economic growth. The working man and woman have felt its e...

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 The Verge: The World Wide Web turns 30: our favorite memories from A to Z http://archive.org/post/1099944 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:16:30 UTC On this day 30 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal with the dreary title “Information Management” to his superior at the European physics laboratory CERN. It began by asking how futur...

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 Loksatta: संकलनाचा खजिना असलेली ही वेबसाईट बघाच! http://archive.org/post/1099943 Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:12:01 UTC प्रत्येक व्यक्तीला कशाचा ना कशाचा छंद असतो. हा छंद काहीजण केवळ स्वत:च्या आनं...

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 ActuaLitté: Un projet pilote pour favoriser la lecture chez les étudiants handicapés http://archive.org/post/1099430 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:10:12 UTC La bibliothèque numérique Internet Archive s'emploie à relever un défi majeur pour les étudiants handicapés : fournir des livres dans des formats qu'ils pourront utiliser. Cette participation s'...

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 Berkeley Technology Law Journal: A Night Out With BTLJ at the Internet Archive http://archive.org/post/1099432 Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:27:07 UTC Last month, for the first time in decades, new copyrighted works entered the public domain and can now be freely accessed and used by anyone. The BTLJ Podcast went to the Internet Archive to find out ...

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 Library Journal: Pilot Project: Internet Archive Helps Make Books Accessible For Students with Disabilities http://archive.org/post/1099429 Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:01:08 UTC The Internet Archive will be part of a team that is working to address a key challenge for students with disabilities: getting books in accessible formats. This participation aligns with an existing I...

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 Journalist Resource: Five ways to find public figures’ yearbooks http://archive.org/post/1099259 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:55:12 UTC Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page features an image of a person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robes; Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s high sch...

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 Gizmodo: The Best Websites and Web Apps for Making Use of Exactly One Hour of Free Time http://archive.org/post/1099260 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:51:44 UTC It’s lunchtime—or maybe it’s just a break you’re taking from the world. Either way, you’ve got an hour to spare, and that could mean running errands or braving the outdoors, or it could mean...

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