Category Archives: News

Connect with Internet Archive at ALA 2017—Chicago

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Wendy Hanamura

Come meet Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle and Director of Partnerships, Wendy Hanamura at ALA Annual 2017 in Chicago. Saturday, June 24 10:30-11:30 a.m.  Making your library a digital library by 2020 Where:  McCormick Place W194b Who:     Brewster Kahle, … Continue reading →

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AMA about OpenLibraries–our proposal for MacArthur’s 100&Change

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Wendy Hanamura

Live Chat on YouTube Live, Thursday, June 15 from 10-11:30 a.m. PT with Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian Wendy Hanamura, Director of Partnerships John Gonzalez, Director of Engineering What would it mean if you had easy online access to … Continue reading →

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Help Us Defend Net Neutrality!

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Chris Butler

Please stand with the Internet Archive and over 50 allies in the effort to protect free speech by adding your name in support of net neutrality and writing to your Congressperson today. We have only 40 days left to stop a current … Continue reading →

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Comcast’s Blocking and Un-Blocking of Archive.org – What We Know So Far

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Chris Butler

Comcast Internet users found themselves unable to access archive.org starting late Thursday afternoon due to Comcast blocking access to our site. The earliest time Comcast users reported problems was around 4:30 PM PST and access was restored around 6:15 AM … Continue reading →

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MIT Press Classics Available Soon at Archive.org

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Wendy Hanamura

For more than eighty years, MIT Press has been publishing acclaimed titles in science, technology, art and architecture.  Now, thanks to a new partnership between the Internet Archive and MIT Press, readers will be able to borrow these classics online for … Continue reading →

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Internet (Film) Archive – A Screening: Monday June 5 at 7 pm

Posted on May 22, 2017 by dimitri

Join us for an evening of fun, nostalgia and learning with a screening of the rarest, corniest and weirdest films from the Internet Archive’s collection of Educational Media. This curated screening of digitized and 16mm films will also include favorites … Continue reading →

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Re: User account breach

Posted on May 19, 2017 by katie

The FBI helpfully told us that they found a copy of the Archive’s user database, dated prior to 2012, during one of their investigations. This database did not have much information that is not on the website, but it had … Continue reading →

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TV news fact-checked: Comey, Schumer, McMaster, Mueller

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

It was a yet another extraordinary week in U.S. politics, with a series of explosive news reports centering on President Donald Trump. The TV News Archive is saving history as it happens, as well as linking relevant fact-checks by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, … Continue reading →

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“And the Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement Goes to….”

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Caitlin Olson

“The Internet Archive…is building a home for Universal Access to All Knowledge, open to everyone, everywhere, to use as they like. Open to all societies of the future that care to build on our triumphs and learn from our mistakes.” … Continue reading →

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Over 200 terabytes of the government web archived!

Posted on May 9, 2017 by jefferson

In our December post, “Preserving U.S. Government Websites and Data as the Obama Term Ends,” we described our participation in the End of Term Web Archive project to preserve federal government websites and data at times of administration changes. We wanted to … Continue reading →

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