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Internet Archive TShirts are now available
We just received a shipment of Internet Archive TShirts. They have the Internet Archive logo on the front and a choice of slogans on the back. They come in S, M, L, XL and XXL We know you’ve been waiting … Continue reading
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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco: Fundraiser Benefitting Internet Archive Dec 18th
Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco is a movie happening that brings old-time San Francisco footage and our community together in an interactive crowd-driven event. Showing in the majestic Internet Archive building, your ticket donation will benefit the … Continue reading
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Bitcoin Friday Sale at the Internet Archive Store
While the rest of the world lines up early for Black Friday we here at the Internet Archive Store offer online deals on Bitcoin Friday. From Friday, November 29 through Sunday, December 1 you can purchase our two most popular … Continue reading
Start of Community Wireless Backbone in Richmond CA
With the cooperation of the City of Richmond (thank you!), a group of volunteers and Internet Archive staff are starting to set up backbone repeaters in Richmond California to build a Community Wireless network. Here is Colyer Dupont showing a … Continue reading
A Dream to Preserve TV News, on the Road to Realization… with Your Help
We are about to receive a remarkable private collection of video taped U.S. television news that spans 35 years. We welcome contributions of TV news recorded before the year 2001 to help broaden our research library. Marion Marguerite Stokes, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Marion Stokes, television, television news archive, TV news
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NSA Comedy Tour with Will Durst! A Night of Comedy, Ethics & Tech on Dec. 11th in SF
EthicsInTech presents a fun night of Comedy, Ethics & Technology to help protect the Fourth Amendment and our constitutional rights and freedoms. The goal of the event is to entertain, educate and bring to light issues concerning ethical use of … Continue reading
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Let the Robots Read! A Victory for Fair Use
A resounding judgement in the Google Books case means that the act of digitizing books is not in-and-of-itself infringing. In legal-speak, the judge ruled that digitizing books is “fair”. This is a big deal in that it allows … Continue reading
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Please Come: Aaron Swartz Reception at the Internet Archive Fri Nov 8th in SF
(CNET Article) On November 8th from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm, you are invited to a reception, talks, and hackathon at the Internet Archive 300 Funston Ave, in San Francisco. Suggested donation of $5, Bitcoin accepted. 5PM Hackathon 6:30PM Reception … Continue reading
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Reader Privacy at the Internet Archive
(NYTimes article, Video of Announcement with Daniel Ellsberg) The Internet Archive has extended our reader privacy protections by making the site encrypted by default. Visitors to archive.org and openlibrary.org will https unless they try to use http. For several years, … Continue reading
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Microcomputer Software Lives Again, This Time in Your Browser
The miracle is now so commonplace that it’s invisible: we have the ability to watch video, listen to music, and read documents right in our browsers. You might get a hankering to hear some old time radio, or classic television programs, … Continue reading
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Fixing Broken Links on the Internet
Today the Internet Archive announces a new initiative to fix broken links across the Internet. We have 360 billion archived URLs, and now we want you to help us bring those pages back out onto the web to heal broken … Continue reading
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Free “404: File Not Found” Handler for Webmasters to Improve User Experience
The Internet Archive today is launching a free service to help webmasters improve their user experience by augmenting their website’s 404 Page Not Found page to link to the Wayback Machine in the case that it has it. Therefore users … Continue reading
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NSA TV Clip Library
When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry. Senator Ron Wyden May 26, 2011 Recent revelations of the extent of … Continue reading
NEW! The Internet Archive Store is open
In the navigation bar on our blog is a new link, Internet Archive Store. We often receive requests for Internet Archive gear such as shirts, hats, etc. So, we decided to make it available to all the folks that want … Continue reading
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Celebrate at the Internet Archive — 1024 — Thursday Oct. 24th
(Full Video of event. Announcement as posts: 1, 2, and 3) Internet Archive invites you to a fun evening in San Francisco on October 24th for our once-a-year celebration and announcements of new services. (And it just so happens to … Continue reading
Blacked Out Government Websites Available Through Wayback Machine
(from the Internet Archive’s Archive-it group: Announcing the first ever Archive-It US Government Shutdown Notice Awards! ) Congress has caused the U.S. federal government to shut down and important websites have gone dark. Fortunately, we have the Wayback Machine to … Continue reading
Celebrate at the Internet Archive — 1024 — Thursday Oct. 24th
Internet Archive invites you to a fun evening in San Francisco on October 24th for our once-a-year celebration and announcements of new services. (And it just so happens to fall on 1024, which our fellow geeks will recognize as 2^10.) … Continue reading
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Over 7,000 Free Audio Books: Librivox and its New Look!
In 2005, Hugh McGuire asked: “Can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?” The answer is yes. Thanks to the help of many, LibriVox, the nonprofit organization he … Continue reading
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Scheduled outage tonight, Sept 3
Our backup data center in Richmond, CA will experience an Internet outage some time between 10pm and 6am PST tonight. We should be able to keep the site up during this outage (though the site will be read only), but … Continue reading
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Job Posting: Web Application/Software Developer for Archive-It
The Internet Archive is looking for a smart, collaborative and resourceful engineer to lead and do the development of the next generation of the Archive-It service, a web based application used by libraries and archives around the world. The Internet … Continue reading
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