#endangeredarchives — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #endangeredarchives, aggregated by home.social.
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Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
The Guardian: ‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted. “André is part of a group of ‘data rescuers’ who have banded together during Trump’s second term. They have been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they are no longer available. Now known as the Data Rescue Project, it’s a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/things-were-going-dark-left-and-right-the-race-to-save-us-government-datasets-before-theyre-deleted-the-guardian/ -
The Guardian: ‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted. “André is part of a group of ‘data rescuers’ who have banded together during Trump’s second term. They have been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they are no longer available. Now known as the Data Rescue Project, it’s a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/things-were-going-dark-left-and-right-the-race-to-save-us-government-datasets-before-theyre-deleted-the-guardian/ -
The Guardian: ‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted. “André is part of a group of ‘data rescuers’ who have banded together during Trump’s second term. They have been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they are no longer available. Now known as the Data Rescue Project, it’s a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/things-were-going-dark-left-and-right-the-race-to-save-us-government-datasets-before-theyre-deleted-the-guardian/ -
The Guardian: ‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted. “André is part of a group of ‘data rescuers’ who have banded together during Trump’s second term. They have been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they are no longer available. Now known as the Data Rescue Project, it’s a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/things-were-going-dark-left-and-right-the-race-to-save-us-government-datasets-before-theyre-deleted-the-guardian/ -
The Guardian: ‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted. “André is part of a group of ‘data rescuers’ who have banded together during Trump’s second term. They have been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they are no longer available. Now known as the Data Rescue Project, it’s a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/things-were-going-dark-left-and-right-the-race-to-save-us-government-datasets-before-theyre-deleted-the-guardian/ -
Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-hardware-internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratosphe/ -
Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-hardware-internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratosphe/ -
Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-hardware-internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratosphe/ -
Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-hardware-internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratosphe/ -
Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-hardware-internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratosphe/ -
Artforum: 85% of All US Museums Need Repairs, Study Finds. “According to a survey conducted in March by the US Government Accountability Office, a whopping 85% of all museums in the United States are in need of repair; even more dire, 77% of US museums have at least one structural issue that puts their collections at risk, according to The Art Newspaper.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/artforum-85-of-all-us-museums-need-repairs-study-finds/ -
Christian Science Monitor: For Ukraine’s museums, Russia’s war gives ‘preservation’ new meaning. “The Kremlin has been waging a long-running ‘Russification’ campaign in parallel with its military efforts – attempting to destroy the very identity and values that are core to Ukraine by repressing Ukrainian language, burning books, and looting artifacts. In response, every cultural […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/28/christian-science-monitor-for-ukraines-museums-russias-war-gives-preservation-new-meaning/ -
The Whig: Grassroots Canadian Peace Museum grows with new digital archive partnerships. “The Canadian Peace Museum has launched a new web archive, preserving and creating a partnership with two peace-related websites. In January 2026, the museum was contacted by Michael Cooke, founding member and chair emeritus of PeaceQuest, based out of the Kingston. Cooke explained that the current digital […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/28/the-whig-grassroots-canadian-peace-museum-grows-with-new-digital-archive-partnerships/ -
ARTNews: Berlin Museum Oversees Digital Resurrection of Hundreds of Paintings Destroyed During World War II. “Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war—including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio—will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/23/artnews-berlin-museum-oversees-digital-resurrection-of-hundreds-of-paintings-destroyed-during-world-war-ii/ -
Scene Mag: Scotland’s only dedicated public archive celebrating LGBTQ+ literary heritage launches urgent appeal to secure its future. “The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive, Scotland’s only dedicated public archive celebrating LGBTQ+ literary heritage, has launched an urgent funding appeal as it faces a growing financial crisis that threatens its survival.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/16/scene-mag-scotlands-only-dedicated-public-archive-celebrating-lgbtq-literary-heritage-launches-urgent-appeal-to-secure-its-future/ -
CBC: Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it’s too late. “A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/15/cbc-journalist-plans-to-create-new-archive-of-residential-school-survivor-stories-before-its-too-late/ -
Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/harvard-gazette-time-has-not-been-kind-to-vhs/ -
Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/harvard-gazette-time-has-not-been-kind-to-vhs/ -
Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/harvard-gazette-time-has-not-been-kind-to-vhs/ -
Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/harvard-gazette-time-has-not-been-kind-to-vhs/ -
Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/harvard-gazette-time-has-not-been-kind-to-vhs/ -
The Conversation: As a ‘book scientist’ I work with microscopes, imaging technologies and AI to preserve ancient texts. “Cultural heritage is constantly under threat. In recent years, we’ve witnessed the destruction of museums, archives and libraries around the world — from wildfires in California to bombing in Gaza and wars in Ukraine and Iran. Meanwhile, book scientists are working […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/06/the-conversation-as-a-book-scientist-i-work-with-microscopes-imaging-technologies-and-ai-to-preserve-ancient-texts/ -
I mentioned the grant for this project years ago but not when the project launched: HBCU Radio Preservation. From the Who We Are page: “HBCU radio stations train students entering broadcasting careers and provide an outlet for communities to engage on issues while reveling in the sounds of the Black diaspora. Their rhythms and stories demand to be heard. And yet, the original programming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/hbcu-radio-preservation/ -
I mentioned the grant for this project years ago but not when the project launched: HBCU Radio Preservation. From the Who We Are page: “HBCU radio stations train students entering broadcasting careers and provide an outlet for communities to engage on issues while reveling in the sounds of the Black diaspora. Their rhythms and stories demand to be heard. And yet, the original programming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/hbcu-radio-preservation/ -
I mentioned the grant for this project years ago but not when the project launched: HBCU Radio Preservation. From the Who We Are page: “HBCU radio stations train students entering broadcasting careers and provide an outlet for communities to engage on issues while reveling in the sounds of the Black diaspora. Their rhythms and stories demand to be heard. And yet, the original programming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/hbcu-radio-preservation/ -
I mentioned the grant for this project years ago but not when the project launched: HBCU Radio Preservation. From the Who We Are page: “HBCU radio stations train students entering broadcasting careers and provide an outlet for communities to engage on issues while reveling in the sounds of the Black diaspora. Their rhythms and stories demand to be heard. And yet, the original programming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/hbcu-radio-preservation/ -
I mentioned the grant for this project years ago but not when the project launched: HBCU Radio Preservation. From the Who We Are page: “HBCU radio stations train students entering broadcasting careers and provide an outlet for communities to engage on issues while reveling in the sounds of the Black diaspora. Their rhythms and stories demand to be heard. And yet, the original programming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/hbcu-radio-preservation/ -
National Security Archive: A Disappearing Data Chronology. “The Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. The purpose of this chronology is to keep the public—including journalists, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/national-security-archive-a-disappearing-data-chronology/ -
EBM.gr: Hybryds seek to rebuild lost Belgian industrial video archive after YouTube takedown. “Belgian ritual-industrial project Hybryds is trying to reconstruct the Belgian industrial archive on YouTube after the platform took it down. The band’s YouTube channel once held rare footage from Belgium’s industrial scene in the 1980s and 1990s, including material connected to artists such as […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/ebm-gr-hybryds-seek-to-rebuild-lost-belgian-industrial-video-archive-after-youtube-takedown/ -
Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/29/vancouver-city-news-tmu-research-group-working-to-preserve-accounts-of-residential-school-survivors/ -
Internet Archive Blog: Join Internet Archive and Partners for the National Summit on Local News Preservation. “Join Internet Archive, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Poynter Institute for the National Summit on Local News Preservation. This event will bring together the producers, preservers, and users of local news to develop collaborative, scalable solutions to address the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/29/join-internet-archive-and-partners-for-the-national-summit-on-local-news-preservation-internet-archive-blog/ -
NBC News: Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict. “The preliminary losses across the culture, antiquities and tourism sector during the war stand at $110 million, according to an estimate from Sudan’s minister of culture and information, Khalid Ali Aleisir, who said that figure captures only part of the irreversible damage inflicted on repositories […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/nbc-news-museums-looted-of-priceless-artifacts-as-sudan-counts-the-cost-of-a-deadly-conflict/ -
Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/toms-hardware-385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated/ -
Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/toms-hardware-385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated/ -
Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/toms-hardware-385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated/ -
Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/toms-hardware-385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated/ -
Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/toms-hardware-385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated/ -
University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/14/university-of-new-mexico-bringing-hundreds-of-new-mexico-spanish-archives-online/ -
University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/14/university-of-new-mexico-bringing-hundreds-of-new-mexico-spanish-archives-online/ -
University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/14/university-of-new-mexico-bringing-hundreds-of-new-mexico-spanish-archives-online/