Category Archives: News

Wayback/WABAC Movie Party, March 7th at 5pm

Posted on March 3, 2014 by internetarchive

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, launched in 2001, was named after Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine from the 1960s cartoon Rocky and Bullwinkle.  This Friday we are going to celebrate our own time travel machine by going to see a movie about … Continue reading →

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New Software Collection: Making the Business Case

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive continues its goal of bringing the same experience of older software that we have with movies, books and audio. This newest collection, just in time for Valentine’s Day (?), is called The Business Case, and is a continually-growing … Continue reading →

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We want your old T-shirts. Really.

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Alexis Rossi

The Internet Archive is headquartered in a building that used to be a Christian Science church.  The great room includes a gorgeous stained glass dome, a pipe organ, and graceful wooden pews.  We seat 400+ people in this space to … Continue reading →

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Software Wanted: Political TV Commercial Detection and Naming

Posted on January 20, 2014 by brewster

Volunteers needed:   We have a fabulous TV collection, and the US is going into an election period.    We would like to pull out the TV Commercials, including the political ads, and match them with the other occurrences, and then put … Continue reading →

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Archive Tumblr Fun: Announcing a Year of Tumblr Residencies

Posted on January 16, 2014 by internetarchive

Last year a group of inspired digital residents created fantastic tumblr’s using the things they found interesting in the Internet Archive.   We’re proud to unveil these projects, one per week, throughout the year. They’ll each be posted at the Internet … Continue reading →

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Short Video of Brewster Kahle on Bitcoin by Forbes

Posted on January 16, 2014 by brewster

  Forbes did a followup on its “Living on Bitcoin for a Week” and interviewed Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive and the Internet Credit Union. http://www.forbes.com/video/3058744760001/ (on the archive)

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Public Access to the Public Domain: Copyright Week

Posted on January 14, 2014 by brewster

It’s Copyright Week, and many organizations are highlighting the need to make works in the public domain readily accessible. One of the many challenges we face sounds almost paradoxical: works in the public domain are often not publicly available. The … Continue reading →

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Servers for the New Year: Thank you!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by brewster

  Year-end donations went past our goal of $1 million (almost $1.3m !) – thank you all for donating.    With this money we can buy the ten racks (10 petabytes, 10,000,000,000,000,000bytes) of server space to store the upcoming books music … Continue reading →

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Still Life, With Emulator: The JSMESS FAQ

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Jason Scott

The announcements of the Console Living Room and the Historical Software Collection have brought a large amount of attention to the JSMESS emulator that archive.org uses. Naturally, being a relatively new method of playing software in a browser, there are … Continue reading →

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A Second Christmas Morning: The Console Living Room

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Jason Scott

For a generation of children, the most exciting part of a Christmas morning was discovering a large box under the tree, ripping it apart, and looking at an exciting, colorful box promising endless video games. At home! Right in your … Continue reading →

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Dreams Reflected in Bitcoin

Posted on December 25, 2013 by brewster

Love the dreamers– they make life worth living. Right now many are looking into bitcoin and seeing their dreams in the reflection.  And like all things bitcoin, this is playing out in public view, so we see other’s hopes and … Continue reading →

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Mapping 400,000 Hours of U.S. TV News

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Roger Macdonald

We are excited to unveil a couple experimental data-driven visualizations that literally map 400,000 hours of U.S. television news. One of our collaborating scholars, Kalev Leetaru, applied “fulltext geocoding” software to our entire television news research service collection. These algorithms … Continue reading →

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Create playlists with CratePlayer

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Alexis Rossi

I find great stuff on the Internet Archive all the time, and now I can use a tool called CratePlayer to create playlists from archive.org movie and audio files.  For example, I want to play a bunch of old Christmas … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive TShirts are now available

Posted on December 10, 2013 by internetarchive

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

Posted on December 2, 2013 by junegoldsmith

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

Posted on November 25, 2013 by internetarchive

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 →

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Start of Community Wireless Backbone in Richmond CA

Posted on November 23, 2013 by brewster

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 →

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A Dream to Preserve TV News, on the Road to Realization… with Your Help

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Roger Macdonald

On The Media’s TLDR CNN Huffington Post Philly.com Fast Company 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 … Continue reading →

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NSA Comedy Tour with Will Durst! A Night of Comedy, Ethics & Tech on Dec. 11th in SF

Posted on November 21, 2013 by junegoldsmith

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

Posted on November 16, 2013 by brewster

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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