Brewster Kahle

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 🦃 Does a defrosted bird cook faster? Will guests spot potatoes from a box? Dare to microwave your buns? (Testers couldn’t tell!) Gems from our theses & government collections can help: archive.org/details/dehy... #CanadianThanksgiving #Turkey #Archives 🥔🍞🍗

Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time. archive.org/details/prof... (1912) thats it. just that.

Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude. A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. Canadians paid for building it ($6.4B) and endured getting jerked around right before opening. Thank you, Canada! Gordie Howe Bridge! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

DWeb camp in on near Berlin. Let’s build a web with many winners. Let’s lock the web open. Dwebcamp.org

The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring it much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital. archive.org/details/noaa blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/t...

The Daily Weather Report, 1938 International and Upper Air Sections by Air Ministry Meteorological Office, London W.C.2. Check out the first pages at link below. Someone (& all AI's) need to know! I love my job. pls post photos of why your job is awesome. archive.org/details/dail...

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at archive.org/details/Publ... and YouTube at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ht @holovaty.com @brewster.kahle.org

Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️ Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_... #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

Claude Code is more fun than Netflix. Bravo.

Public Domain Day short film contest by @archive.org on NPR! www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n... 2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2... A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: archive.org/details/geor...

ride hailing trips in San Francisco (helped by chatgpt) Uber: ~54% Lyft: ~26% Waymo: ~8% Taxis: ~11% waymo's seem to be everyhere but are only 10% of lyft/uber total/day ~150k Uber (ride-hail)~82k-90k/day Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k Waymo. ~13k Taxis (trad) ~15k–20k

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @archive.org Thank you crypto folks! www.blockchain.com/explorer/tra... to: archive.org/donate/crypt...

"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. " Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?" really fun, worth reading. archive.org/details/sim_...

$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow! lower than I imagined. can be as low as $0.12 w lower rates "...the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling...75,000 pounds...over a 390-mile long-haul route." tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile. www.electrive.com/2025/12/05/c...

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Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" IMLS funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. but everyone is gone and grants cancelled so who now gets employed? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-vict...

So nice to see *support* for libraries by the US government! Go California and thank you Senator Padilla! "Senator Alex Padilla Honors Internet Archive’s 1 Trillion Milestone in Congressional Record" blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/s... @archive.org

"The two biggest barriers to progress are bitterness and nostalgia". -- Andrew Pace, Exec Dir of ARL Most important sentence I have heard in a long time. Does it work for you?

Celebration of 1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome. over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world. @archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:

Bezos Earth Fund helping convert all US school buses to from diesel to electric by 2030 (480,000 of them!) www.bezosearthfund.org/grants/equit... this is the program: electricschoolbusinitiative.org Sounds bold, the right direction, and generally good to me. $37.5m grant in 2020, fingers crossed.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

Wonderful piece about the Internet Archive's Web collections and the Wayback Machine. Timely too-- San Francisco and California are declaring Oct 22nd, 2025 Internet Archive Day! Thank you! cybercultural.com/p/wayback-ma...

The Wayback Machine (November, 2001) web.archive.org/web/20011109...

Internet Archive Europe progress: new network router is now installed in central switching point. Onward! www.internetarchive.eu (Will substitute for one supported by XS4ALL and KPN for 20+ years -- thank you!)

We also encourage you to make sure all of the reports on this page are in wayback machine! www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...

Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!

Such a pleasure to tour Copenhagen libraries with @brewster.kahle.org, Mary and @internetarchive.eu to discuss libraries and archives as critical infrastructure, publishers as data cartels, digital sovereignty, data mirroring, public AI and - of course - the politics of data loss. @erc.europa.eu

Visiting public infrastructures and workers w @internetarchive.eu and @brewster.kahle.org: CPH public library, Danish National Radio (Prompt by @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social), @andersmyrvoll.bsky.social at the Danish Royal Library and @ucph.bsky.social + the University Library.

SAVING CAMPUS & COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY 🎙 At June's National Campus & Community Radio Association conference, #InternetArchive’s Jennifer Waits, Asst. Curator for the #collegeradio collection in DLARC, shared her work. ▶️ Watch her talk.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Hero gave away his songs before he passed. Even more reasons to love this man. "All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. " tomlehrersongs.com

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.” In a new interview‬, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system. @cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org vimeo.com/1103555091/8...

Philip Bump of Washpo always anchored his articles with data, and data well presented. Sorry to see him leave that prominent organization.