The Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a service of the Internet Archive @internetarchive We are sharing articles that reference the Wayback Machine or the Internet Archive.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel sent a special congratulatory message to Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, on being honored as a 2026 Computer History Museum Fellow at the April 25 gala ceremony.

In his message, Gabriel speaks to the importance of preserving and sharing knowledge, work that has defined Kahle’s vision for the Internet Archive.

Watch Gabriel’s message and more on our blog ⤵️
https://t.co/y4p4oTqVKD

#BrewsterKahle #InternetArchive #ComputerHistoryMuseum #CHMFellows #DigitalPreservation #WaybackMachine #PeterGabriel @itspetergabriel @Brewster_Kahle

[Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen]

Several local newspaper companies — USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local, MediaNews Group, and Tribune Publishing — have begun blocking @internetarchive's access.

That's more than 340 U.S. local news sites in all, a new @NiemanLab analysis by @decka227 and @HanaaTameez shows.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Tell the publishers to stop blocking @waybackmachine 🚫🕳️ https://t.co/VMXFADgTf3

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🧵 1️⃣/5️⃣ Announcing Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge 🇨🇭🌍

Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded Internet Archive with one goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. That mission expands with the launch of Internet Archive Switzerland.

Visit Internet Archive Switzerland ➡️ https://t.co/bPriXa74Re

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Publishers fighting AI companies are increasingly colliding with web preservation systems ⚖️

In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mike Masnick examines how attempts to block AI scraping can restrict access to vital archiving tools like the Wayback Machine, creating collateral damage for the public record.

🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://t.co/XPy6OQNL4Y

#WaybackMachine #AI #WebArchive #FutureKnowledge @mmasnick

[The Wayback Machine @waybackmachine]

@BigIfTrueTVO @internetarchive @tvo Trillion.

The Wayback Machine has archived more than a trillion web pages.

But thank you for the coverage :-)

[The Wayback Machine @waybackmachine]

@LMaster20013888 @internetarchive What URL? Please email [email protected] with specifics.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️

Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.

Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.

✍️ https://t.co/XJap1UG6AX

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This letter about OpenAI was just sent to me.

These seem like concerns worth investigating.

https://t.co/hnAepyfLE6

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional is one of the most studied decisions in American history. But the briefs filed in Brown v. Board of Education reveal dimensions that the opinion alone does not capture.

Those briefs are now accessible to everyone on the Internet Archive, thanks to the Wolf Law Library at @WMLawSchool.

Learn more ⤵️
https://t.co/yhjqSBVDOa

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️

But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.

That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://t.co/BrawXOwMBr
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/EB58IliqDm

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #BookTwitter

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Hooray for #NationalLibraryWeek! 📚

Internet Archive's mission is Universal Access to All Knowledge, and we’re proud to be a Federal Depository Library.

Books 📖, movies 🎞️, music 🎧, software 💾, web pages 🌐 and much more await on the Internet Archive: the library in your pocket.

Explore our collections ➡️ https://t.co/WzFJmX6Nlf

#Libraries #LibraryLove #Books #Reading #BookTwitter

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://t.co/yhjqSBVDOa

@WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🚨 LIVE ONLINE EVENT 🚨

Publishers vs. preservation: what happens when the web can’t be archived? Find out on PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, a LIVE Future Knowledge #podcast recording 🎙️

Join this timely conversation on AI, access & our digital memory with Mike Masnick, Mark Graham, & Kendra Albert.

📆 Tues, April 28
🕙 10 AM–11 AM PDT/🕐 1 PM–2PM EDT
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://t.co/YN9WexTA73

@mmasnick @MarkGraham @bkcharvard @Auths_Alliance #WebArchiving #DigitalPreservation

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Destroying a library brings the dark ages.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[Jeremy KD8TUO 🇺🇸⏦⎓⎎⎍⏚ @ElectronicsbyJH]

Was trying to find this, and thank goodness @waybackmachine has it!
https://t.co/jx2x0b08kg

[Michael Benjamin (on the music midnight makes) @Almostconvinced]

Yes. For those who want to see what @MYANC website was like before it lost complete access to posting new stuff on it because of nonpayment to the service provider, make a visit to @waybackmachine . Here's the Index page on Oct 17, 1997, for example. https://t.co/La8KXJAmZh

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️

Read more at Fight for the Future 👇
https://t.co/xZKCrJuyZs

🧵⬇️

@doctorow @maddow

[W. David Marx @wdavidmarx]

In writing a cultural history of the 21st century, I realized that so many key texts have been expunged from the living internet.

The notorious Vice founders interview with New York Press and Gavin's piece for The American Conservative were buried deep in there