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It's official! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.
🔗 Learn more & celebrate with us tonight ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/happy-internet-archive-day/
New post from Joe Mullin, EFF's Sr. Policy Analyst: Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because they fear AI scraping. This is a misguided notion: it won’t stop AI, but it will erase the web’s historical record.
@eff@mastodon.social has the story ⤵️
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.
“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/
We love π around here.
In the Great Room at the Internet Archive, the first nine digits of π are mounted on the wall.
A small #PiDay tribute to a very big number. 🥧📚
Here’s Brewster Kahle with 3.14159265… proof that π is part of our architecture.
⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO 👀
When the new year begins, so does #PublicDomainDay2026.
At 12:00 a.m. ET, iconic books, films, and music move into the public domain—and we’ll be sharing highlights #here all night long.
🔔 Set your reminder ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
Cory Doctorow coined the word ENSHITTIFICATION & learned that a minor license to vulgarity can be a key to getting people interested in abstract technical questions.
On the Future Knowledge #podcast, he explains what the word means, why the web became frustrating & hostile to users, & how we can make it work for people again.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/enshittification
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org @AuthorsAlliance@mastodon.social
🎮 From Pac-Man to Nosh Kosh—retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing.
Only 13% of classic games from 1960–2009 are still available. Some, like Jewish educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14 at 87, were almost lost forever.
Journalist Josh Renaud @kirkman@digipres.club explains why preserving niche software matters in the latest essay from the Vanishing Culture report.
🔗 Read the full essay: https://blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/vanishing-culture-recovering-lost-software/
Hearing a lot about Oz this week? Did you know many of the original Oz books & early media are in the public domain? Explore these classic works & how you can access them in our blog!
📖 Learn more ⬇️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/the-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
🎤 When songs enter the public domain, they don’t just get older—they get new lives. 🎶
For Public Domain Day 2026, musician Stephanie Woodford gave three newly public-domain classics a fresh voice by writing new lyrics, reimagined for today. It's a striking example of how timeless songs continue to evolve and find new audiences.
Learn more ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/27/timeless-songs-fresh-lyrics-musician-stephanie-woodford-reimagines-the-public-domain/
#PublicDomainDay
🎼 The 2026 Public Song Project is here! And this year, we’re turning up the volume on the public domain.
🤝 For the first time, WNYC’s Public Song Project is partnering with the Internet Archive!
🎤 Anyone can participate.
📚 The public domain in the U.S. includes creative works published in 1930 or earlier, sound recordings from 1925 or earlier, plus U.S. federal government works.
📆 Submit your song by May 10
Details & entry form ⤵️
https://www.wnyc.org/story/2026-public-song-project/
📩 Questions? aoi@wnyc.org
Welcome to the public domain, GRAND HOTEL (1930) by Vicki Baum 🏨
A glamorous Berlin hotel becomes the crossroads for intertwined lives in this bestselling novel of drama, romance, and ambition 📖
In 1932, it received a big-screen treatment starring Greta Garbo.
Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-DGV-438
Scrapbooks. Witchcraft. Cats. 🐾
Our latest Artist in Residence, Cindy Rehm, mined the Internet Archive to create The Seers—a 100-piece collage series inspired by feminist mysticism.
Watch her talk & explore the work ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol9Xc-D5U-8&t=938s
2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest Screening
Congrats “BATTLE LINES ” by Jen Zhao & Aaron Sharp ⚔️🎨 Second Place winner of the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🥈
A tongue-in-cheek doc(mock)umentary tracking the rivalry between Piet Mondrian & Theo van Doesburg over the diagonal line. 22 archival works, Coco Chanel costumes, and perfectly pitched narration.
Masterful editing of inspired sources… sends viewers to research further.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/20260108_20260108_0507
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay
Welcome to the public domain, CIMARRON (1930) by Edna Ferber 📖
This sweeping saga of the Oklahoma land rush follows Yancey & Sabra Cravat as they build a life on the American frontier 🌾🏜️
The book inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Richard Dix & Irene Dunne.
Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/cimarron0000edna_o9w0
Dark shadows, hidden faces, and silent dread. For #SpookySeason, GODS MAN (1929) is a wordless descent into temptation and consequence, perfect for #Halloween week. 🕯️🖤
👀 Check out this video of the opening chapter.
Then read the full story in our Spooky Season 2025 collection ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025
Congrats to "GEORGIA" by Javier Estella, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬
A letter to the mother who is no longer here & left too soon. Based on a fragment of a home movie filmed in Georgia in 1930, accompanied by a cover of the 1930 composition "Georgia on My Mind," recorded for this piece.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/georgia_202601
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay
📣 Co-create #DWebCamp 2026 in #Berlin next week!
Join the Unconference + Meetup exploring decentralization & the future of public knowledge in Europe.
Meetup features a live fireside chat with Brewster Kahle.
📅 Feb 28, 2026
🕙 Unconference 10:00–18:00 CET
🕖 Meetup 19:00-22:00 CET
📍In-person at c-base in Berlin
🎟️🆓 https://dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/
Co-hosted by Internet Archive Europe & Department of Decentralization
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org @internetarchiveeurope@toot.community @dweb@social.coop @cbase@chaos.social
Chia Amisola’s "Elegiac" unfolds hundreds of browser windows into a generative myth from archived media, sound, and text 🎨🎶📝
Created for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions, it evokes a web that disappears even as the Archive stays 🌐
Learn more ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/internet-archive-x-gray-area-trillionth-webpage-net-art-commissions/
📢 NEW #LIVESTREAM EVENT TOMORROW! 📡
Watch the winning films & honorable mentions from the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest - live from the @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org!
📅 Weds Jan 21
🕕 7:00–8:00 PM PT
📍ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/livestream-2026-public-domain-film-remix-contest-screening/
⏰ TOMORROW. TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE 🎟️
There’s still time to join #DWebCamp 2026 Berlin! 🏕️
Unconference + Meetup + fireside chat with @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org. All free. All community-led.
Exploring decentralization & Europe’s public knowledge future 🇪🇺 .
📅 Feb 28, 2026
🕙 Unconference 10:00–18:00 CET
🕖 Meetup 19:00-22:00 CET
📍In-person at c-base in Berlin
🎟️🆓 https://dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/
@internetarchiveeurope@toot.community @dweb@social.coop @cbase@chaos.social
🚀 Coming THIS SATURDAY #DWebCamp 2026 Berlin
Join us for a free Unconference day + Meetup evening + in-person fireside chat with Brewster Kahle.
Co-create the decentralized future of public knowledge in Europe 🇪🇺
🎟️🆓 https://dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/
Co-hosted by Internet Archive Europe and Department of Decentralization.
@internetarchiveeurope@toot.community @dweb@social.coop @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org @cbase@chaos.social
Do digital books last longer than physical books? @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org highlights the lengths libraries go through to keep digital books viable: they “need constant maintenance—reprocessing, reformatting, re-invigorating or they will not be readable or read.” http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/
