Internet Archive

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

📽️ #OTD in 1928, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC premiered in France. For this #PublicDomain Spotlight, revisit Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent masterpiece, featuring Renée Falconetti in one of cinema’s most celebrated performances. Watch it at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/the-...

👻 #Spookyseason continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s treat: THE LAUREL & HARDY MURDER CASE, a 1930 comedy that sends Stan & Ollie to a mysterious mansion, where a murder mystery brings plenty of eerie goings-on. 🕯️🏚️ Then things go batty!🦇 More Spooky Stuff: archive.org/details/@ias...

You young 'uns may not know that there was a time when the Internet was for computer scientists and there were lots of lousy alternatives. I had a GEnie account (and on Compuserv and Prodigy and several BBSes), but all that ended when I got an Internet account via NASA Ames in 1991. 1/2

GEnie (the General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was founded in 1985 as a #DialUpEra online service. 💿 In 1996, new owners attempted to reinvent the magic 🧞 for the web era. But the service went up in smoke by Y2K. Revisit web history with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org

STARTING IN 30 MINUTES! 🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation. 💾 SAVE. 🔎 DISCOVER. 📤 CONTRIBUTE. 🤝 CONNECT. 📡 Livestream ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Tv... #ToolsYouCanUse

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

Archive.org is currently offline. We are working to restore service now.

You can now RSVP for the Aaron Swartz Day San Francisco event at @archive.org here. (It's FREE and breakfast/lunch/drinks and snacks will be provided throughout the day.) RSVPing helps us know how much pizza and food to order! Thanks ^_^: www.eventbrite.com/e/aaron-swar...

📅 Tomorrow. We'll be celebrating the tools that let all of us participate in preserving, discovering, and contributing to knowledge. 🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation 🗓️ October 21. Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Tv... #ToolsYouCanUse

Our annual celebration in SF kicks off Wednesday with a street fair! 🏛️ Meet the teams behind our projects and allies. See live demos of tools to save web pages, digitize books, preserve government records & more. Learn more & register 👇 blog.archive.org/2026/10/19/a... 🎟️ Tickets are going fast!

@BrewsterKahle@mastodon.archive.org of the Internet Archive makes the case for web preservation in The Atlantic. 🌐 Kahle explains why blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI. It will only make the public record harder to preserve. Read it 👉 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

#SpookySeason gets a sinister, shadowy visitor. 🦇 In F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922), Count Orlok’s long fingers & eerie silhouette make this landmark of horror cinema a study in unease. 🕯️ See it and more Spooky Stuff in the Internet Archive collections ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

Amateur radio history survives because people saved it. Much more was lost in attics and basements. 📻 Kay Savetz on recovering magazines, recordings, and manuals. 📚 "Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications" is in VANISHING CULTURE. 📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...

The Internet Archive has a museum for the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It’s called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first wave of the web. Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that survived. 💾 Go find your perfect retro GIF 👉 gifcities.org #ToolsYouCanUse

The Internet Archive Hero Award is a work of art! 🏛️ Designer and educator Taekyeom Lee created a 3D model of the Internet Archive’s San Francisco building to honor those who preserve and share knowledge. Learn more about Lee & register to watch this year's event 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/10/14/b...

📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷 Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. Courtesy of the #publicdomain.👇 archive.org/details/winn...

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 🥔🍞🍗

👀 Watch history being preserved, live. At the Internet Archive, government documents and other historical materials are being digitized in real time. 📜➡️💻 No time machine required. ⏳ Just microfiche. 🔍 Tune in and watch preservation happen. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbQp... #ToolsYouCanUse

📚 See incorrect book information online? You can help fix it. ✏️ Open Library is a collaborative catalog. Volunteers can improve records, add information, correct metadata, and create records for unrepresented books. Help make the catalog better. openlibrary.org

What if you could take a work of art, remix it, study it, share it, or build something new from it? You can. Public-domain works belong to everyone to be: 🛠️ Reused 🔀 Remixed ❤️ Enjoyed 🧠 Reimagined So go find something. Then make something new. Free to (re)use. blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

❤️📖 Only a few weeks left to donate to “For the Love of Books.” 📖 ❤️ By donating to the Internet Archive, you support us and Better World Books in the fight to preserve literacy. Pledge Support Today: donate.archive.org/campaign/838...

Find the Internet Archive at the UNIQLO Street Festival in San Francisco this Friday. Come learn about our work, grab a Wayback Machine sticker, and say hello. 📍 801 Market St. 📅 Friday, October 9 ⏰ 11 AM–6 PM 🎟️ Free & family-friendly More info 👉 uniqlo.streetfest.us #WaybackMachine

WEBINAR TOMORROW! 🌐 Web archives preserve a record of the online world, but also gaps & disappearances. CARTA Presents: "DIGITAL GHOSTS," visualising web archive fragility. Dr. Andrea Kocsis shares works on link decay & vanishing music. 📅 Weds. Oct. 7 🕗 8 AM PT 🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I love it when a #creative person archives their work on the Internet Archive. I began doing it years ago with my stories, and it's enriched my life. Sell your #books. Sell your #music. Sell your art, vids, etc. But also consider future generations. Add your creations to the #InternetArchive.