Category Archives: News

MIT Press Classics Available Soon at Archive.org

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Wendy Hanamura

For more than eighty years, MIT Press has been publishing acclaimed titles in science, technology, art and architecture.  Now, thanks to a new partnership between the Internet Archive and MIT Press, readers will be able to borrow these classics online for … Continue reading →

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Internet (Film) Archive – A Screening: Monday June 5 at 7 pm

Posted on May 22, 2017 by dimitri

Join us for an evening of fun, nostalgia and learning with a screening of the rarest, corniest and weirdest films from the Internet Archive’s collection of Educational Media. This curated screening of digitized and 16mm films will also include favorites … Continue reading →

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Re: User account breach

Posted on May 19, 2017 by katie

The FBI helpfully told us that they found a copy of the Archive’s user database, dated prior to 2012, during one of their investigations. This database did not have much information that is not on the website, but it had … Continue reading →

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TV news fact-checked: Comey, Schumer, McMaster, Mueller

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

It was a yet another extraordinary week in U.S. politics, with a series of explosive news reports centering on President Donald Trump. The TV News Archive is saving history as it happens, as well as linking relevant fact-checks by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, … Continue reading →

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“And the Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement Goes to….”

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Caitlin Olson

“The Internet Archive…is building a home for Universal Access to All Knowledge, open to everyone, everywhere, to use as they like. Open to all societies of the future that care to build on our triumphs and learn from our mistakes.” … Continue reading →

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Over 200 terabytes of the government web archived!

Posted on May 9, 2017 by jefferson

In our December post, “Preserving U.S. Government Websites and Data as the Obama Term Ends,” we described our participation in the End of Term Web Archive project to preserve federal government websites and data at times of administration changes. We wanted to … Continue reading →

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Interactive player Europeana Radio opens up access to Europe’s sound treasures

Posted on May 5, 2017 by jeff kaplan

Europeana Radio marks the beginning of easy and interactive access to Europe’s sound treasures, where listeners are free to browse, listen and tag. The player contains over 200.000 historic music tracks collected from sound archives across twelve European countries, including … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive wins Webby Lifetime Achievement award

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Caitlin Olson

We are honored to announce that the Internet Archive has been named as one of the 21st annual Webby Awards winners! Hailed as one of the Internet’s highest honors, we’re excited to receive a Webby Lifetime Achievement award and join … Continue reading →

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Macintosh Collection Hand-Screenshotted… Plus: HyperCard!

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive’s emulated Early Mac collection, which was announced last week, has had all its content screenshotted by hand for maximum visual beauty and accuracy. Normally, we utilize a set of automated scripts that do screenshotting, allowing for a … Continue reading →

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DRM for the Web is a Bad Idea

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Lila Bailey

I asked our crawler folks what the impact of the EME proposal could be to us, and what they came back with seems well reasoned but strongly negative to our mission. I have posted the analysis below for the public … Continue reading →

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