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

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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: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

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Happy 36th Birthday World Wide Web!

On 12 November 1990, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee set out his proposals for creating the WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project.

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When Salon launched in 1995, the web was finding its voice.

Last week, Salon announced it would cease publication. But 31 years of journalism don't have to fade into the past.

The Wayback Machine has been preserving Salon's stories for decades ➡️ https://t.co/PBRye9rwOx

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@internetarchive The shift feels like leasing one's own roof. Is that the final irony of civilization's collapse?

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📣 The call for creative short films is open! 🎬 The Internet Archive’s 2027 Public Domain Film Contest invites filmmakers, artists and creatives of all skill levels to turn works entering the public domain into something new.

This year, we're especially looking forward to films inspired by cultural treasures from 1931, including classic books, films, cartoons, music and art.

Make a short film up to four minutes using public domain materials. Submit by January 7 for a chance to win up to $2,000. Winning films will be celebrated at Public Domain Day in January!

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/KM6PhXQKu0

#PDFC

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Libraries are being forced to become renters of their own collections. Publishers can impose checkout limits, expire licenses, and require libraries to pay ever-increasing fees just to keep access to books they already have. 📚

Kyle K. Courtney, Juliya Ziskina and Connecticut State Librarian Deborah Schander discuss how this model became the norm and the growing effort to secure fairer terms in WILL STATE LAW SOLVE THE LIBRARY EBOOK CRISIS? on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://t.co/9paqjjNUs0

@KyleKCourtney

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We printed about 500 of these Wayback Machine postcards for our October celebration. You can print your own with the new CC0 PDF we're sharing at https://t.co/0LXZVb7mbd OR pick one up at our Friday tours! We give a free public tour of our headquarters every Friday at 1pm, 300 Funston Ave in SF.

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The public domain is an invitation to play with culture. 🎨📚 So, what happens when people take familiar stories & make them strange, funny, and entirely their own?

Join us for a LIVE recording of the #FutureKnowledge podcast: REMIX CULTURE AND THE STORIES WE SHARE, featuring cartoonist Alec Robbins, author-librarian Liz Gotauco, and copyright expert Meredith Rose of Public Knowledge.

From Betty Boop to twisted German folktales, we'll talk about creativity, remix, and the possibilities of the public domain.

📅 Thurs. Nov. 12
🕙 10 AM PT – 11 AM PT
📍 VIRTUAL
🎟️ https://t.co/Z0Bawtb2Kl

@alecrobbins @publicknowledge

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With the rerelease of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, take a trip back to where it all began: the game's original 1998 website: https://t.co/b9MA3rYRV3

A little internet nostalgia, courtesy of the @waybackmachine. 🗡️

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Digital storytelling doesn’t have to follow a straight line. 🧶 Tapestries, a new digital storytelling tool, lets you bring text, images, audio and video together on a shared digital canvas.

Create dynamic, interconnected stories, curate digital materials and preserve the things that matter, all on your own terms.

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/BWM7pitC2Y

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Film preserves far more than movies. Home movies and "useful cinema" can document everyday life, work, education, and communities, yet much of this material remains at risk of decay or loss. 🎞️

Archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger makes the case for scanning films so they can be preserved, shared, and studied. 📽️

📚 Read "No Film Left Unscanned" in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.

📖 Download & read, FREE:
https://t.co/1NF2Er6nMW

#Booktwitter

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Libraries are losing control over access to the books they buy. Restrictive eBook licenses mean higher costs, shorter lending periods, and fewer options for preservation.

Can state laws change the terms? Kyle K. Courtney, Juliya Ziskina & Deborah Schander discuss the fight for fairer contracts in WILL STATE LAW SOLVE THE LIBRARY EBOOK CRISIS? on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧

https://t.co/9paqjjNUs0

@KyleKCourtney @jziskina

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📻🇨🇦 This week marks the 90th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, founded Nov. 2, 1936, and online since the early web era.

The earliest @WaybackMachine capture of cbc․ca dates to late Oct. 1996, just days before CBC’s 60th birthday. Still going strong 💪

Time travel through 30 years of @CBC web history ⤵️
https://t.co/FElPtSDS95

@InternetArcCA @MsAndreaMills @CBC

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What goes on behind the doors of the Physical Archive? At an open house in Richmond, CA, visitors got a firsthand look at the collections, equipment and people behind the work of preserving knowledge for future generations.

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/DtJcSzPVYQ

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Today is the LAST DAY to support “For the Love of Books,” a partner initiative between us and @BWBBooks. ❤️📖🏛️📚

Donate to the Internet Archive today to preserve millions of books and ensure literacy for all: https://t.co/IJJhxH4C6o

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Would making bots identify themselves stop harmful scraping?

Not necessarily.

A bot can identify itself and still overwhelm a website. Target harmful behavior, not access, urge Lila Bailey & Tess Vartanian in Tech Policy Press.

Read ➡️ https://t.co/gdIsJ6naoJ

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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 ⤵️
https://t.co/JbHerKXm2J

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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 👉 https://t.co/BmAnqD9oh5

#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 ⤵️
https://t.co/JreWDYXMap

#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: https://t.co/0E13hxcmOj

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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: https://t.co/VK9EyThhhc

#SpookySeason