Category Archives: News

Soundwave 8 Biennial Festival at the Internet Archive: XUXA SANTAMARIA

Posted on October 16, 2018 by BZ Petroff

We are excited to have the experimental music and video duo XUXA SANTAMARIA perform an original work “Untitled (Wall)” at the Internet Archive as part of the Soundwave 8 Biennial Festival on Friday October 26, 2018 at 7pm. XUXA SANTAMARIA … Continue reading →

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Low Vision? Disability? 1.8 Million digital books free, now Worldwide

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

  You can take action now to expand access to 1.8million books worldwide. Individuals can qualify now to access 1.8 million digitized books, free.   Internet Archive has recently expanded its program for those with low vision and disabilities. Libraries, hospitals, … Continue reading →

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The Music Modernization Act is now law which means some pre-1972 music goes public

Posted on October 15, 2018 by jeff kaplan

The Music Modernization Act is now US law and the final version of this bill, which seeks to fix a wide range of problems in music copyright law, is not perfect, but it’s better than the version we opposed a … Continue reading →

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Seder-Masochism Screening at the Internet Archive

Posted on October 12, 2018 by BZ Petroff

The Internet Archive presents the movie Seder-Masochism by Nina Paley on Saturday October 13 at 7:30 pm at our headquarters in San Francisco, with a discussion with Nina Paley afterwards. The doors will open at 7:00 pm. Seder-Masochism is a … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive expands access to millions of books for people with disabilities

Posted on October 11, 2018 by John Gonzalez

Now, disabled users that are certified by a growing number of organizations can borrow hundreds of thousands of modern books and download mostly older books all for free. Individuals that are already a qualified user of  NLS-BARD, Bookshare, or Ontario … Continue reading →

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World’s largest collection of Tibetan Buddhist literature now available on the Internet Archive

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Alexis Rossi

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) and Internet Archive (IA) announced today that they are making a large corpus of Buddhist literature available via the Internet Archive. This collection represents the most complete record of the words of the Buddha … Continue reading →

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Don’t Click on the Llama

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Jason Scott

WE HAVE ONE SIMPLE REQUEST…. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LLAMA. Clicking on the Llama will release Webamp, a javascript-based player that mimics, down to individual strangeness and bugs, the operations of the once dominant Winamp, a media player considered to … Continue reading →

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More than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Mark Graham

As part of the Internet Archive’s aim to build a better Web, we have been working to make the Web more reliable — and are pleased to announce that 9 million formerly broken links on Wikipedia now work because they … Continue reading →

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Physical Archive Party October 28th, 2018

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

Archive friends and family please join us for the Physical Archive party, 2-6pm 2512 Florida Avenue, Richmond CA.   RSVP please so we can keep a count.  Staff, partners, friends of the Internet Archive are all invited. RSVP HERE This is … Continue reading →

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Images of Afghanistan 1987-1994

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Alexis Rossi

Journalists and others risk their lives to keep the public informed in times of conflict. War imagery provides us with important information in the moment, and creates a trove of invaluable archival content for the future. Please be aware that … Continue reading →

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