Category Archives: Wayback Machine – Web Archive

Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex Karaoke! — Tuesday, March 6

Posted on February 15, 2018 by jefferson

The Internet Archive presents the first ever Military Powerpoint Karaoke: a night of “Powerpoint Karaoke” using presentations in the Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex collection at archive.org that were extracted by the Internet Archive from its public web archive and converted into … Continue reading →

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30 Days of Stuff

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, free-range archivist, reporting in as 2017 draws to a close. As part of our end-of-year fundraising drive, I thought it might be fun to tweet highlighted parts of the vast stacks of content that the Internet Archive makes … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Cool items, Emulation, Image Archive, Movie Archive, Music, Software Archive, Video Archive, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | 8 Comments

The 20th Century Time Machine

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Nancy Watzman & Katie Dahl With the turn of a dial, some flashing lights, and the requisite puff of fog, emcees Tracey Jaquith, TV Architect, and Jason Scott, Free Range Archivist, cranked up the Internet Archive 20th Century Time … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive to help First Draft News debunk fake news

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with First Draft News, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to ferreting out misinformation online. In its short existence–it was founded in June 2015–First Draft News has already spearheaded innovative projects that bring together … Continue reading →

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If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Alexis Rossi

In recent days many people have shown interest in making sure the Wayback Machine has copies of the web pages they care about most. These saved pages can be cited, shared, linked to – and they will continue to exist even after the original page … Continue reading →

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Robots.txt Files and Archiving .gov and .mil Websites

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Alexis Rossi

The Internet Archive is collecting webpages from over 6,000 government domains, over 200,000 hosts, and feeds from around 10,000 official federal social media accounts. Some have asked if we ignore URL exclusions expressed in robots.txt files. The answer is a … Continue reading →

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Please: Help Build the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Web Archive

Posted on November 11, 2016 by jefferson

Help us build a web archive documenting reactions to the 2016 Presidential Election. You can submit websites and other online materials, and provide relevant descriptive information, via this simple submission form. We will archive and provide ongoing access to these … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Archive-It, News, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | 8 Comments

I CAN HAZ MEME HISTORY??

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott presents Internet Memes of the last 20 Years at the Internet Archive’s 20th anniversary celebration. ——– It’s always going to be an open question as to what parts of culture will survive beyond each generation, but there’s very … Continue reading →

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Defining Web pages, Web sites and Web captures

Posted on October 23, 2016 by Vinay Goel

The Internet Archive has been archiving the web for 20 years and has preserved billions of webpages from millions of websites. These webpages are often made up of, and link to, many images, videos, style sheets, scripts and other web objects. … Continue reading →

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The Hidden Shifting Lens of Browsers

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Jason Scott

Some time ago, I wrote about the interesting situation we had with emulation and Version 51 of the Chrome browser – that is, our emulations stopped working in a very strange way and many people came to the Archive’s inboxes … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Technical, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | 2 Comments