Category Archives: News

  Dear Friends,Please join us as we gather to remember Aaron Swartz on the evening of Thursday, January 24th. Reception at 7:00pm Memorial at 8:00pm at the Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco 94118 Speakers will include Danny O’Brien, … Continue reading →

A Bitcoin Adventure in Four Parts —by Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian Part One: The Deposit I am proud to say I succeeded in donating BitCoins to the Internet Archive, but it took some doing.   For your entertainment, here is … Continue reading →

One down, three to go! With help from a generous, anonymous donor who’s matching other donations three to one through the end of the year, we now have enough funding to buy a new Petabox! We now have only seventeen … Continue reading →

No. 6, 14 December 2012 One down, three to go! With help from a generous, anonymous donor who’s matching other donations three to one through the end of the year, we now have enough funding to buy a new Petabox! … Continue reading →

[letter to the Open Internet Preservation Society] The “Stack” of technical layers that have delivered text and video from around the world are now embattled.      An Open Stack encourages competition at each layer, where a closed stack does not.    Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

No. 5, 31 October 2012 A BBC film crew visited the Internet Archive; here’s their story. In addition, the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice profile of our work: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Brewster-Kahle-s-Internet-Archive-3946898.php From the Archive’s Mailbox I’ve just downloaded an image file … Continue reading →

We are excited to join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other open-minded organizations in the Open Wireless Movement. We have long believed that there should be many and low-cost options to get access to the Internet. Individuals and organizations sharing … Continue reading →

  Bittorrent is a system that makes a fileserver that does not have a server. I find the idea of calling for a file given a handle from the community of Internet users is pretty interesting.    It allows a … Continue reading →

No. 3, 7 August 2012 Brewster’s Report The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, … Continue reading →

News from the Internet Archive No. 2, 24 July 2012 Which Came First? Anyone visiting the Internet Archive’s Internet site has seen our logo: an abstract rendering of a classical building with four columns. And anyone visiting our San Francisco … Continue reading →

News from the Internet Archive No. 1, 18 June 2012 In this issue, Archive-It’s two hundredth partner, picks from our collection, Brewster Kahle talks about Internet Archive news, and more. Internet Archive Sues to Stop New Washington State Law The … Continue reading →