Category Archives: News

The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now is New and Improved

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Mark Graham

Every day hundreds of millions of web pages are archived to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Tens of millions of them submitted by users like you using our Save Page Now service. You can now do that in a way … Continue reading →

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Unlocking the Potential for Every High School Library: 2019 Internet Archive Hero Award

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Lila Bailey

Announced today, Phillips Academy has received the Hero Award from the Internet Archive for its leadership in adopting controlled digital lending for school libraries. The Hero Award is presented annually to an organization that exhibits leadership in making its holdings … Continue reading →

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How the Internet Archive is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Faye Lessler

Imagine if your favorite song or nostalgic recording from childhood was lost forever. This could be the fate of hundreds of thousands of audio files stored on vinyl, except that the Internet Archive is now expanding its digitization project to … Continue reading →

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Everyone Deserves to Learn

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Lila Bailey

The nation’s K-12 school libraries are hurting. Although the student population is rising in many districts, the number of librarians and media specialists dropped by nearly 20 percent from 2000 to 2015. Budgets are being reduced and some schools are … Continue reading →

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Calculating the True Value of A Library that is Free

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Wendy Hanamura

By Omar Rafik El-Sabrout We live in the era of Venmo and CashApp, when after a nice meal with friends, you no longer have to argue over who will pick up the bill. On the surface, this is an extremely … Continue reading →

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Jai Hind! Jai Gyan! India on the Internet Archive

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Carl Malamud

In India, many speeches begin or end with the phrase “Jai Hind.” Jai means “long live” and “Hind” of course is the great Republic of India, the largest democracy in the world. Jawaharlal Nehru popularized this phrase, and it became … Continue reading →

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The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways

Posted on October 18, 2019 by John Hickey

Extinction isn’t just a biological issue. In the 21st century, it’s a technical, even digital one, too. The average web page might last three months before it’s altered or deleted forever. You never know when access to the information on … Continue reading →

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Offline Archive Brings Knowledge Anywhere

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Jenica Jessen

The Internet Archive’s central mission is establishing “Universal Access to All Knowledge,” and we want to make sure that our library of millions of books, journals, audio files, and video recordings is available to anyone. Since lack of an internet … Continue reading →

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Adding New Features to the Internet Archive Music Experience

Posted on October 17, 2019 by John Hickey

This is a time of transition, musically speaking, at the Internet Archive.. Our online digital library is best known for its immense archive of web pages and websites in the Wayback Machines. Less well known are the million-plus recordings the … Continue reading →

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2,500 More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Archive

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Jason Scott

Another few thousand DOS Games are playable at the Internet Archive! Since our initial announcement in 2015, we’ve added occasional new games here and there to the collection, but this will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny recent … Continue reading →

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