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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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The web is disappearing 🕳️

According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

But that’s not the whole story.

In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.

Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive

📖 Download & read: https://t.co/BrawXOwMBr
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/EB58IliqDm

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

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☀️ Summers fade. Home movies help them live on.

Time warp back to a 1958 backyard pool party where the whole family's having summer fun. 🏊‍♀️ 👙🩲 Moments like these weren't meant for history books, yet they speak to us across time.

Preserved in the Prelinger Archives, this film follows the same family over ten years, from 1958 to 1968. Preserving home movies preserves the everyday lives that so often go undocumented and unnoticed.

🎞️ Watch the full film ⤵️
https://t.co/PcRVV0IoPh

@footage #HomeMovies #FilmPreservation #PrelingerArchives

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⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco.

WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was little more than a lightly tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, repackaged to cash in on the tournament & sold for more than 4× the original price. 💸

Its awfulness has been preserved for posterity in the Internet Archive's software collections ⤵️
https://t.co/REnYo8IPWC

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CONGRATS AGAIN to “BATTLE LINES” by Jen Zhao & Aaron Sharp 🥈 SECOND PLACE winner in the 2026 Internet Archive Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎬

A tongue-in-cheek doc(mock)umentary tracking the rivalry between Piet Mondrian & Theo van Doesburg over the diagonal line. 22 archival works, Coco Chanel costumes, and perfectly pitched narration.

Jen Zhao is a Canadian filmmaker, producer, and actor interested in autofictional works that explore reality, genre, and the experience of making art itself.

Aaron Sharp is a screenwriter & actor from Los Angeles. He has an MFA from UCLA TFT and loves acronyms.

Watch the full short film ⤵️
https://t.co/jwT5pX9mU3

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

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106 years ago today, Hollywood’s ultimate power couple, “America’s Sweetheart” and “Everybody’s Hero,” Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks, arrived in the Soviet Union.

Drawn by their admiration for Soviet cinema, they visited Moscow. At Mezhrapom Studios, Pickford planted a kiss on actor Igor Ilyinski. That playful moment inspired director Sergei Komarov’s feature "A Kiss for Mary Pickford," released in 1927. 🎬🌍

Check out this archive of Pickford and Fairbanks items ⤵️
https://t.co/WbKEik7P6w

#OTD #silentfilm #classichollywood #sovietcinema

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And why is it important to preserve cookbooks? Stanford humanities scholar Katie Livingston sits down for a discussion on preserving family cookbooks & U.S. regional food culture in the latest Future Knowledge podcast episode, out today!

🎧➡️ https://t.co/f8OHyV7uTJ

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Of course, libraries have books of all kinds. But you may not be aware that there are many libraries across the U.S., mostly university libraries, that have special collections involving cookbooks. https://t.co/4xbDhP6IhB
#Library #Libraries #Services #Resources #Cookbook #Cooking #SpecialCollections

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📖 Family cookbooks aren’t just collections of recipes; they’re scrapbooks of daily living.

Those handwritten notes, magazine clippings, and adjustments to favorite dishes...none of that survives when food culture is reduced to content on someone else’s platform.

On the Future Knowledge podcast special #VanishingCulture series, Katie Livingston examines the importance of everyday artifacts.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://t.co/MqAOEspS1S

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🌐 The web changes daily. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️

38% of URLs that existed just 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web.

Internet Archive's @markgraham & @chrisfreeland on why preserving our digital record can't be an afterthought, with Nathan J. Robinson of @curaffairs.

🔗 https://t.co/VLg3vUnNHg

#WaybackMachine @waybackmachine

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🔦 We turn the Public Domain Spotlight on ALWAYS (1925) 🎼

Written by Irving Berlin in 1925, ALWAYS became one of the most beloved love songs ever published. This scene from the 1928 film Lonesome lets you hear the classic just a few years after it debuted.

Tune into the sheet music in the Internet Archive's collections:
https://t.co/Sm7uCheV5g

#PublicDomain

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💾 We often think of online platforms like YouTube and Flickr as permanent homes for our photos and videos. They're not.

On the Future Knowledge podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Luca Messarra explains why relying on commercial platforms puts both our personal and shared cultural memory at risk.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://t.co/KCM5Tki3eM

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🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio recordings, including this LibriVox reading of the Declaration of Independence, bringing one of America's founding documents to life.

We're highlighting documents, recordings, and artifacts that tell the story of America's founding and the anniversaries that followed.

Learn more 👇
https://t.co/Op97GUekCY

#AmericanHistory

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📜🇺🇸 Printed on the night of July 4, 1776, the Dunlap Broadside was the first published copy of the Declaration of Independence, carrying news of independence across the colonies. Check out this high-resolution scan of the historic print.

As America marks its 250th anniversary, we're spotlighting remarkable items from the Internet Archive's collections.

Learn more 👇
https://t.co/Op97GUekCY

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🎨🇺🇸 Georgia O'Keeffe's THE FLAG (1918) is a striking watercolor painted during World War I. Now in the public domain in the United States, it's free to view, download, and reuse.

It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary.

Learn more in our blog: https://t.co/Op97GUekCY

#Americanhistory

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🖥️📜 How has the online presentation of the Declaration of Independence changed over nearly 30 years? Compare a 1997 capture of the National Archives webpage with one from 2026 using the Wayback Machine.

It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary.

Learn more in our blog: https://t.co/Op97GUekCY

@usnatarchives #AmericanHistory

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☎️📖 At Philadelphia’s 1926 Sesquicentennial (150 years) Exposition, the Bell Telephone System celebrated 50 years of the telephone with a booklet written from the telephone’s first-person perspective.

We're sharing artifacts that show how each generation has celebrated America's story. 🇺🇸

See more highlights in our blog 👇
https://t.co/Op97GUekCY

#AmericanHistory

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"As more of our cultural heritage moves online, a troubling question is emerging: what happens when the things we create, share, and cherish simply disappear?"

From our 1st episode of the 6-part series on Vanishing Culture, out today on Future Knowledge. https://t.co/N2ggWsbpn3

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🎬 In 1975, John Wayne urged Americans to celebrate the upcoming Bicentennial by investing in U.S. Savings Bonds, linking patriotism with the nation's future.

It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸

Learn more in our blog ⤵️
https://t.co/Op97GUekCY

#AmericanHistory

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🎬 What can the unlikely rise of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE teach us about preserving culture?

The Future Knowledge podcast begins its special series on #VanishingCulture with researcher Luca Messarra, who explores why our digital heritage disappears & why it matters. In this clip, he shares one surprising example.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://t.co/KCM5Tki3eM

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3️⃣/3️⃣

🤝 This collection exists because libraries, archives, and universities across Canada chose to digitize and openly share their collections. Together, they've created a free resource for researchers, students, teachers, family historians, and curious readers around the world.

@InternetArcCA @MsAndreaMills #CanadaDay

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🇨🇦 This Canada Day, we're celebrating the remarkable collection built by Internet Archive Canada and its library, archive, and university partners over the past 20 years.

📚 More than 1 million books, 📰 newspapers, 🎼 sheet music, 📜 archival records, and so much more are freely available to anyone, anywhere. 🌎

Discover how this digital library came together ⤵️
https://t.co/AzutizYUwB

🧵1️⃣/3️⃣ 👇

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2️⃣/3️⃣

📖 The collection spans more than 500 years, from a 1475 edition of St. Augustine's De civitate Dei to underground newspapers, government reports, and community publications from the 20th century.

🌍 It also reflects Canada's diversity, with materials in about 90 languages, including English, French, Chinese, Tamil, Arabic, Yiddish, and Indigenous languages.