Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the @waybackmachine.

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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Univeral access to all knowlege seemed within reach with 20th-century technologies like microfilm and microfiche, but access was curtailed or prevented. Today, the Internet Archive is digitizing these collections to help make that promise a reality. In THE INTERNET ARCHIVE AT 30: A CONVERSATION WITH BREWSTER KAHLE, the Internet Archive founder and digital librarian talks with Stephen Wyber of IFLA about bringing libraries’ mission into the digital age. 🎧 Listen & subscribe to the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.f…
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The Wayback Machine risks becoming collateral damage in the fight against AI, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic. Blocking the Internet Archive won’t stop AI companies from scraping the web. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists, researchers, and anyone seeking information that has disappeared or changed. Read the article free 👉 theatlantic.com/technology/2… #NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback
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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, EDWARD STEICHEN’S FASHION FOR VOGUE (1930) 📸🖼️ Model Marion Morehouse wears a dress by Madeleine Vionnet in this photograph by Edward Steichen, one of the most influential fashion and modernist photographers of his era. See Steichen's work in the October 27, 1930 issue of Vogue, now in the public domain ⤵️ archive.org/details/vogue-19… #PublicDomain
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📽️ #OTD in 1928, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC premiered in France. For this Public Domain 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-pass…
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👻 Spooky season 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/@iasocia… #SpookySeason
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GEnie (the General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was founded in 1985 as a dial-up online service that connected users through email, forums, games, and downloads, building a devoted community while competing with CompuServe and AOL. 💿🌐 In 1996, new owners attempted to reinvent the magic 🧞 for the web era. But the service struggled to keep pace & went up in smoke by Y2K. Take a trip through web history with the @WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org #DigitalHistory #InternetHistory #EarlyInternet #DialUpEra
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🏛️ The future of the Library of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office is at a turning point. Political upheaval and proposed structural changes could reshape how knowledge is preserved, copyright is governed, and the public accesses creative works. Join the live Future Knowledge #podcast with copyright scholar Blake Reid and CNI executive director Kate Zwaard. 📅 Thurs. Oct. 29 🕙 10 AM PT to 11 AM PT 📍 VIRTUAL 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/the-future-… @kzwa
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STARTING IN 30 MINUTES! 🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation. 💾 SAVE. 🔎 DISCOVER. 📤 CONTRIBUTE. 🤝 CONNECT. 📡 Livestream ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=s6TvvGAI… #ToolsYouCanUse
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An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.
Archive.org is currently offline. We are working to restore service now.
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The internet archive's Wayback Machine library is a planetary treasure. It preserves the archive of the web. Don't let publishers take it down. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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Archive.org is currently offline. We are working to restore service now.
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Few government records say more about a democracy than the census. 📚 As debates over the 2030 count continue, historical records show how the U.S. government has counted people and how those practices have changed. Through Democracy’s Library, the Internet Archive works to make government information freely available. Its U.S. Census collection includes digitized records from 1790 to 1930. Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/10/12/… @MerrileeIAm
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📅 Tomorrow. We'll be celebrating the tools that let all of us participate in preserving, discovering, contributing to, and connecting around knowledge. 🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation 🗓️ October 21. Watch the livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=s6TvvGAI… #ToolsYouCanUse
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Our annual celebration in San Francisco kicks off this Wednesday with a street fair! 🏛️ Meet the teams behind Internet Archive’s projects and allies, and see live demos of tools for saving web pages, digitizing books, preserving government records, and more. Learn more & register 👇 blog.archive.org/2026/10/19/… 🎟️ Tickets are going fast!
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Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive makes the case for web preservation in The Atlantic. 🌐 In The Internet Needs A Memory, Kahle explains why blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI. It will only make the public record harder to preserve. Read it 👉 theatlantic.com/technology/2… @Brewster_Kahle @TheAtlantic
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#SpookySeason gets a sinister, shadowy visitor. 🦇 In F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922), Count Orlok’s long fingers and eerie silhouette make this landmark of horror cinema a study in unease. 🕯️ Watch it and more Spooky Stuff in the Internet Archive collections here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@iasocia…
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The Internet Archive has an entire museum dedicated to the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It's called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first generation of the internet. Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that somehow survived the decades. 💾 Go find your perfect retro GIF. gifcities.org #ToolsYouCanUse
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🌉 Bay Area friends! Join us in San Francisco for the Internet Archive’s annual celebration, Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation. There’s still time to join us in-person to celebrate the Wayback Machine and the Internet Archive tools we can use to preserve and share knowledge! 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/19980159023… Can’t make it in person? Join us online via livestream: eventbrite.com/e/19980047700… @funcheapsf
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Amateur radio history survives because people saved it. Much more has been lost in attics, basements, and forgotten files. 📻 Kay Savetz writes about recovering magazines, recordings, manuals, and materials for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. 📚 📚 "Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications" by Savetz is in VANISHING CULTURE. 📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vanishin… #Booktwitter
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