Author Archives: internetarchive

Downloading in bulk using wget

Posted on April 26, 2012 by internetarchive

If you’ve ever wanted to download files from many different archive.org items in an automated way, here is one method to do it. ____________________________________________________________ Here’s an overview of what we’ll do: 1. Confirm or install a terminal emulator and wget … Continue reading →

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“Please, sir, I want some more.”

Posted on February 7, 2012 by internetarchive

You want it, you got it!  Happy 200th Mr. Charles Dickens. 1,345 books               a few movies: Oliver Twist Scrooge A Christmas Carol     96 audio items  

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Rick Prelinger’s “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 6″ Tuesday Jan 24 7:30pm at the Internet Archive

Posted on January 23, 2012 by internetarchive

Rick Prelinger will be presenting his latest version of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco at the Internet Archive. Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 6 (2011) is the latest in a series of historical urban explorations, made from home movies, industrial … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive joins protest of PIPA / SOPA legislation

Posted on January 19, 2012 by internetarchive

San Francisco, CA – On January 18, 2012, Internet Archive joined the thousands of internet websites that went dark in protest of the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. 12 Hours Dark: Internet Archive vs. Censorship Hackers & Founders organized a … Continue reading →

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Archive-It Team Encourages Your Contributions To The “Occupy Movement” Collection

Posted on December 7, 2011 by internetarchive

Since September 17th, 2011 when protesters descended on Wall Street, set up tents, and refused to move until their voices were heard, an impassioned plea for economic and social equality has manifested itself in similar protests and demonstrations around the … Continue reading →

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Wayback Machine Scheduled Outage Friday through Monday

Posted on October 5, 2011 by internetarchive

Update Wednesday 5:45pm: We spent the day fixing hardware and brought up 7 of the machines that were down.  About 90% of the Wayback Machine data is back online now.  We do still have a few machines that don’t want … Continue reading →

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Volunteer – Help us get 200,000 books on Sunday!

Posted on September 20, 2011 by internetarchive

We have a windfall: the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library are offering all the unsold books from their yearly book sale to the Internet Archive if we can pack them up. The Archive will then move them to … Continue reading →

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Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

Posted on August 24, 2011 by internetarchive

We are proud to announce the launch of Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive, a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists and … Continue reading →

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LEARNING FROM RECORDED MEMORY: 9/11 TV News Archive Conference

Posted on August 3, 2011 by internetarchive

LEARNING FROM RECORDED MEMORY: 9/11 TV News Archive Conference Co-sponsored by Internet Archive and New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, Tisch School of the Arts Wednesday, August 24, 4:00-6:00 pm; reception follows New York University, Tisch School … Continue reading →

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Rosetta Project’s Record-A-Thon at the Internet Archive tomorrow

Posted on July 29, 2011 by internetarchive

The Rosetta Project is trying to record 50 or more languages in one day in a Record-A-Thon event.  If you’re in the San Francisco area, stop by the Internet Archive’s offices tomorrow to participate.  The event was covered in the … Continue reading →

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In-Library eBook Lending Program Expands to 1,000 Libraries

Posted on June 25, 2011 by internetarchive

Internet Archive announces 1,000 Library Partners from 6 countries have joined to build and lend a pool of 100,000+ eBooks; Extending the Traditional In-Library Lending Model. San Francisco, CA – Today, the Internet Archive announced that the 1,000th library from … Continue reading →

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Our Newest Addition – Film Scanning

Posted on June 24, 2011 by internetarchive

We’re pretty excited about the film-to-digital scanner we just received. It is the first Müller Framescanner in the United States. It is the first film scanner in the world that supports all movie formats up to super 16 mm. It … Continue reading →

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Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive

Posted on June 6, 2011 by internetarchive

by Brewster Kahle, June 2011   Press on this:  NYtimes Books are being thrown away, or sometimes packed away, as digitized versions become more available. This is an important time to plan carefully for there is much at stake. Digital technologies … Continue reading →

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Physical Archive Launch

Posted on May 12, 2011 by internetarchive

Update:   We Launched! Everyone is welcome to the open-house and launch of the new Physical Archive of the Internet Archive in Richmond, California on Sunday June 5th from 4-8pm. After 2 years of prototyping and testing a new design … Continue reading →

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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

Posted on April 22, 2011 by internetarchive

On April 10, 2011 Internet Archive kicked off the Internet Archive Presents public events series with a hometown favorite, Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. Culled from thousands of hours of home, commercial and institutional movies, Lost Landscapes presents … Continue reading →

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The Real Mad Men

Posted on March 30, 2011 by internetarchive

What do Susan Sarandon, Frosty the Sno-cone Machine, Chuck Norris, Florence Henderson and Elsie the Cow have in common? They are all in vintage television commercials in the new Adviews Collection at http://www.archive.org/details/adviews. Over 8,500 very cool, funny, weird and … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Harry Houdini

Posted on March 24, 2011 by internetarchive

          On the date of his 137th birthday I thought I’d post a few interesting things I found in a quick search of the Archive for Harry Houdini: Listen to Houdini himself in rehearsal for one … Continue reading →

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US District Court NY Decision Author’s Guild v. Google

Posted on March 23, 2011 by internetarchive

We are in favor of building a digital library system that has many winners, but the Google book settlement seems like a bridge too far.  We are sorry that it had to go this way, but the monopolistic aspects of … Continue reading →

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Maintenance for Archive.org -Wednesday, March 2

Posted on March 2, 2011 by internetarchive

The archive.org site will be “read only” for approximately 24-48 hours starting early tomorrow morning (PST), Wednesday, March 2. We also expect it to be slow and somewhat error prone during this time. All archive.org items are stored on at … Continue reading →

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K12 Web Archiving Program

Posted on February 28, 2011 by internetarchive

If you were a student which websites would you want to save for future generations? What would you want people to look at 50 or even 500 years from now? These questions are central to the K12 Web Archiving Program, … Continue reading →

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