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Wayback/WABAC Movie Party, March 7th at 5pm
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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Archive Tumblr Fun: Announcing a Year of Tumblr Residencies
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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Public Access to the Public Domain: Copyright Week
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!
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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Dreams Reflected in Bitcoin
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
Mapping 400,000 Hours of U.S. TV News
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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Tagged CartoDB, Kalev Leetaru, Knight Foundation, television news, TV news
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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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A Dream to Preserve TV News, on the Road to Realization… with Your Help
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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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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Birthday of the Defensive Patent License: Friday, Nov 15, 4:30-8:00 in SF
(Video of event) Please join us to celebrate the birthday of the Defensive Patent License (“DPL”)! Short Program and Birthday Party Friday, November 15, 2013 Panel Discussion 4:30-6:00 PM Reception 6:00-8:00 PM Internet Archive 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, … Continue reading
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Fire Update: Lost Many Cameras, 20 Boxes. No One Hurt.
As fires go, we were lucky. We are still assessing what happened but this is where we stand: * No one was hurt. * Lost a 130 sq meter side-building (1300 sq feet) that held scanning equipment. We operate 30 … Continue reading
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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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
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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