Tag Archives: Wayback Machine

The 20th Century Time Machine

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Nancy Watzman & Katie Dahl With the turn of a dial, some flashing lights, and the requisite puff of fog, emcees Tracey Jaquith, TV Architect, and Jason Scott, Free Range Archivist, cranked up the Internet Archive 20th Century Time … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Wayback Machine saves deleted prez tweets

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

A weekly round up on what’s happening and what we’re seeing at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. Additional research by Robin Chin. In this week’s TV News Archive roundup, we explain how presidential tweets are forever, show … Continue reading →

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TV news chyron data provide ways to explore breaking news reports & bias

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

Today the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive announces a new way to plumb our TV news collections to see how news stories are reported: data feeds for the news that appears as chyrons on the lower thirds of TV screens.  Our Third Eye … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive to help First Draft News debunk fake news

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with First Draft News, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to ferreting out misinformation online. In its short existence–it was founded in June 2015–First Draft News has already spearheaded innovative projects that bring together … Continue reading →

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Preserving U.S. Government Websites and Data as the Obama Term Ends

Posted on December 15, 2016 by jefferson

Long before the 2016 Presidential election cycle librarians have understood this often-overlooked fact: vast amounts of government data and digital information are at risk of vanishing when a presidential term ends and administrations change.  For example, 83% of .gov pdf’s … Continue reading →

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Blacked Out Government Websites Available Through Wayback Machine

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

  (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 →

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A New Kind of Datacenter

Posted on March 26, 2009 by jeff kaplan

A note from Internet Archive’s founder, Brewster Kahle: Today (March 25, 2009) the Internet Archive and Sun Microsystems are launching a new datacenter that stores the whole web archive and serves the Wayback Machine. And, it is a modular datacenter … Continue reading →

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