#internet-archive — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/117219605332104000

Oh look, the #InternetArchive reveals itself to be just another Tech company. I would strongly suggest, from now on, give your money to anything else other than tech. #IA #AI

Just saw how #InternetArchive has recently hosted some bullshit ecowashed AI group and their "ClimateGPT" demo. Does the unceasing march of enshittification spare anything?

They of all people know the impacts of LLMs. Surely they also know that it's nothing like what they think it is. #FuckAI #NoAI

Zawartość spisu gier z #SecretService #Kompedium 3 w większości przeniesione i zalinkowane do #InternetArchive. Pozostało głównie dokończenie przesunięcia numerów stron do pozycji w skanie. Czasem to -1 strona.

https://github.com/szczja/secret-service-magazine-index/blob/main/indeks_with_urls.md

If you are upset because of the latest Internet Archive AI experiment, you should also take this story from August 30 into account. There is only one question here: did money change hands?

Digital Trends: The Internet Archive just made decades of vintage AI playable in your browser, and it’s fascinating https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/the-internet-archive-just-made-decades-of-vintage-ai-playable-in-your-browser-and-its-fascinating/ @DigitalTrends #internetarchive

@internetarchive

🧩 A math puzzle. 🚗 A solar car. 🌪️ Natural-disaster insurance. ⚡ Electricity oversupply in Kyushu.

These were four very different questions put to Climate8, a specialized climate magic eight ball, during a recent Internet Archive tour. The results were a load of bollocks!

#InternetArchive #AI #ClimateCrisis #LastBoost

What a day yesterday…the fall of both the #eff and the #internetarchive in one day.

https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732

https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117219501245722161

Three good things 🙂

#Framework ❌
#EFF ❌
#InternetArchive ❌

No good things 😞

This might be a longshot, but apparently the keygen for #Citrix #Winframe on WinWorldPC (https://winworldpc.com/product/winframe/18) has been removed from #InternetArchive (At least I couldn't find it)... I don't suppose someone out there might still have a copy...

Just donated to my Mastodon server maintainer @brian ( https://graphics.social ), to the @Vivaldi browser, and to the @internetarchive. It feels good to contribute to a healthier, more independent internet. 💚

Have a great weekend everyone!

#mastodon #fediverse #social #SocialMedia #donate #support #archive #InternetArchive #vivaldi

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently”*…

It can feel, as we’re awash in the wave of “news” and “dialogue” about AI that dominates discourse these days, as though artificial intelligence sprang onto the scene with more development up its sleeve but, Athena-like, essentially fully grown.

Writing on the Internet Archive’s blog, Jason Scott introduces a new collection at the Archive that reminds us that AI’s had a childhood (e.g., ELIZA) and an adolescence (e.g., work by and inspired by Seymour Papert), and that we can learn from it…

Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works. We have the ground-breaking appearance of Rossum’s Universal Robots [and here] (or Tik-Tok, the Royal Army of Oz), through countless science-fiction properties and incredibly positive futurist home-making advertisements, and into the inevitable portrayal of dark and dystopian empires providing humans with nothing but a clear and present ending to their story arc. Artificial Intelligence has been riding along with humanity’s storytelling and expressiveness for many generations – and, one might argue, it is this ever-present influence and inspiration that has driven a lot of the modern phrasing and design in our most contemporary toys and tools wearing the vestments of consciousness.

The motivations are clear: our endless curiosity of the nature of our minds and humanity, the twists and turns that come when the synthetic mirror-images of people betray unintended consequences, and the fact that human beings look amazing when rendered in chrome.

But before we get swept up too much into the echoes of the past and see patterns of AI-like entities into the distant generations (golems, anyone?) let us instead zoom into a very specific family of projects and products that are presented at the Internet Archive for the research, education, and enjoyment of all: The newly-minted Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection.

Dating roughly from the 1970s through the 1990s, these emulated software packages have come from many sources, and with many motivations, but have been curated together for a very subtle and occasionally imperceptible theme: the adventure of experiencing a machine that thinks.

To be clear, and without taking too much time for a press conference announcing so or claiming such for a future IPO, none of the programs in this collection come within a solar system of thinking in any actual sense. They are, instead, portrayals on microcomputers and game consoles of the idea of thinking machines, the experience of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous virtual entities, and playing games with the illusion of a contemplative and improvisational opponent…

Eminently worth reading in full. The early days of AI: “Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward,” from @textfiles.com and @archive.org.

Given that the original users of/audiences for most those vintage programs presumably skewed young (in keeping with the demographics of recreational pc use), it’s fascinating to note, in the results of a recent Pew survey, that “for the first time, a majority of adults under 30 (55%) now say they’re more concerned than excited about AI,” a rate on par with adults 65+ and (for the time) higher than that level of concern adults 30-49 (51%) or adults 50-64 (47%). As to why…

Even in 2021, job loss was one of the top reasons behind Americans’ concern about AI. Today, Americans largely – and increasingly – think AI-related job loss is on the horizon.

In our new survey, 71% of adults think AI will lead to fewer jobs in the United States over the next two decades, up from 64% in 2024. Few (5%) say AI will lead to more jobs. One-in-ten say it won’t make much difference, and a slightly larger share are unsure…

… Adults under 30 are most likely to think AI will be bad for society – and for them. They largely think it will make connection and creativity harder to come by. And though most say they use chatbots, they’re just as likely to say these tools hurt their own creativity as help it… – source

* Fyodor Dostoevsky

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As we reminisce, we might recall that it was on this date in 1833 that The Sun began publication in New York City. It was the first successful penny daily newspaper in the United States; and for a time, the most successful newspaper in the U.S.

[The Sun was] popular with the city’s less affluent, working classes. Its publisher, Benjamin H. Day, emphasized local events, police court reports, and sports in his four-page morning newspaper. Advertisements, notably help-wanted ads, were plentiful. By 1834, the Sun had the largest circulation in the United States. Its rising popularity was attributed to its readers’ passion for the Sun‘s sensational and sometimes fabricated stories [c.f., for example, here] and the paper’s exaggerated coverage of sundry scandals. Its success was also the result of the efforts of the city’s ubiquitous newsboys, who the innovative Day had hired to hawk the paper. The Sun added a Saturday edition in 1836.  A number of weekly and semiweekly titles were also published, such as the Weekly Sun (1851-69), which shares the same masthead as the Sun with “Weekly” appearing in the title ornament.

The paper’s true glory days began in 1868 when Charles A. Dana, former managing editor of the New York Tribune, became part owner and editor. Dana endeavored to apply the art of literary craftsmanship to the news. Under him, the Sun became known as “the newspaperman’s newspaper,” featuring editorials, society news, and human-interest stories. A Sunday edition was added in 1875 and, later, a Saturday supplement appeared, offering book notices, essays, and fictional sketches by Bret Harte, Henry James, and other well-known writers. In the 1880s, the paper’s size increased to eight pages and in 1887 the Evening Sun hit the streets in two editions: Wall Street and Night

On September 21, 1897, in response to a letter from eight-year-old reader Virginia O’Hanlon (“Papa says ‘If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?”), the paper published “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” This opinion piece by veteran newspaperman Francis P. Church, insisting that Santa Claus “exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist,” caused an immediate sensation. It became one of the most famous editorials in newspaper publishing history; the Sun would reprint this editorial annually until 1949… – source

If you find a wiki page seemingly from a MediaWiki, but without a "View History" link, here’s a tip for how to find it.

Example: the old HTML Working Group (WG) wiki at W3C
* https://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Main_Page

Note the warning at the top: “This wiki has been archived and is now read-only.”

Aside: many years ago, each group at W3C had their own MediaWiki install, in a different path and disconnected from both every other group’s wiki, and the top level general W3C wiki (http://www.w3.org/wiki). I pointed out this made no sense, since groups more often than not had overlaps in documentation, technology, practices and would of course benefit from wiki-syntax interlinking. This was never really fixed at an infrastructure level, it had to be fixed at a cultural level, convincing working groups one by one to use the general W3C wiki, and ignore any WG-specific wiki. The other apparent hazard of having a WG-specific wiki is they can be (and have been) shutdown or frozen (like the example given), breaking any chance of fixing typos, other minor errors, or creating redirects to where the work has been restarted subsequently.

Note also the lack of a "View History" link as a tab top right adjacent to the content area (or anywhere else on the page).

This is likely because the page has been archived as static HTML, preserving the markup and styling, but removing any editing or history browsing or diffing or any other form submission based features that would require a dynamic backend like MediaWiki.

Here is how to find such a page’s history:
1. Find the “last modified” date in the footer and note the year, month, day.
2. Check for the page in the Internet Archive, e.g. prepend its URL with "https://web.archive.org/web/"
3. If there’s (presumably) still no "View History" link, look at the year month day numbers in the URL — the first 8 digits after "/web/" E.g. "20260512" for this page as of today.
4. Replace those 8 digits with the year, month, day noted in step 1, with 4, 2, 2 digit numbers respectively. E.g. "20150623" for this page. Press return to load that.
5. You may have to "close toolbar" the (x) in the top right of the page content.
6. Note the "View History" link, click it.

Presto, view history on a former MediaWiki page that’s been archived to static HTML.

This is my second #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and first useful web tip.

#wiki #wikiPage #MediaWiki #ViewHistory #W3C #HTMLWG #wikiArchived #readOnly #staticHTML #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #LastModified

#InternetArchive veeeery slow for me ATM, but DownForEveryone says no problems 🤔

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/internet-archive

International Business Times: Music, Video Games and News Archives Are Vanishing From Public Access, Internet Archive Report Finds. “Decades of music journalism and a huge slice of video game history have quietly disappeared from public access in recent years, according to a new Internet Archive report on cultural preservation. Titled Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record, […]

Digital Trends: The Internet Archive just made decades of vintage AI playable in your browser, and it’s fascinating. “Created by Jason Scott, the new collection gathers emulated software from the 1970s through the 1990s. All of them are playable directly in a browser. While none of them actually think in any real sense, the idea is how convincing these decades-old programs can be at […]

Selailin internet archivesta oliko Eskimo-tuutin koko kutistunut vuosikymmenien aikana.¹ Ekat nettisivut arkistossa 1998, ekat nettisivut joissa tuotetiedossa on muitakin kuin maininta että "maistuu hyvältä": joulukuu 2005.

Vilkaisin myös kauppaketjujen sivut, sama ongelma.

Jännä kuinka kauan firmoilla keksi löytää sivuille käyttöä. Ekassa versiossa on epämääräisiä..

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¹ Oli: 35g » 32g

#internetarchive #valiojäätelö #kulttuuri #markkinointi #kulttuuri

I downloaded The Sims OST and The Sims 2 OST from the Internet Archive. I used to spend so many hours with these as a kid.

Turns out, if you hear The Sims 2 OST right after The Sims, it sounds awful. The Sims OST was written by jazz musicians and it shows. The harmonies! The chord progressions! The Bossa Nova! SO GOOOOOOOD

I will have this on repeat as the soundtrack of my life for the next year. Thank you.

The Wayback Machine is down.

Update: Seems to be working again as of about 3:00 AM UTC

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

Internet Archive: Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites. “Art historians, critics, curators, and humanities scholars rely on artists’ records to understand and contextualize contemporary artistic practice. To support the accessibility and discoverability of these websites for art historical scholarship in the future, the Internet Archive’s Collaborative […]

Zadanie z gwAIzdką

https://szczezuja.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/zadanie-z-gwaizdka/

#BigTech is killing it, and not in a good way 😮‍💨 Everything gets #enshittified, the #InternetArchive is sometimes working and sometimes not, #Google tries to silofy everything… #AgeID nonsense, biometric #CAPTCHAs 🤢🤮 … attempts to ban #VPNs, #E2E, and groups that provide tools and services against oppression… 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 #jeez #fckbigwhack

@mrencyclopedia I only have so many hard drives.

Bless the #InternetArchive, though. They're doing good work.

Preserve a Public Noblogs Site

Public movement history should not disappear because a server, provider or domain does.

If you run a Noblogs site, save two different things:

A WordPress export containing the material needed to rebuild the site.

A static mirror showing the public site as readers actually saw it.

If you administer the site
Open `YOURBLOG.noblogs.org/wp-admin` and sign in.
In the dashboard, select Tools → Export.
Select All content, then press Download Export File.
Rename the downloaded file `blogname-export-YYYY-MM-DD.xml`.

Install the free, open-source program HTTrack.
Open HTTrack and select Next or New Project.
Give the project your blog’s name and choose where the backup should be stored.
Select Add URL, paste the complete public homepage address, then select Next → Finish.

When the download finishes, choose Browse Mirrored Website. Open several posts, archive pages, images and downloadable files to make sure they work.

Put the WordPress XML file and the entire HTTrack project folder inside one clearly dated folder. Keep one copy on your computer and another on a separate drive or trusted location.

The XML export does not preserve the site’s appearance. The HTTrack mirror is not a replacement for the WordPress export. Keep both.

If you are preserving someone else’s public site

For an important individual page:
Open the public page and copy its complete URL.
Go to Internet Archive: Save Page Now.
Paste the URL and press Save Page.
Open the archived result and confirm that it works.

Install the free, open-source SingleFile browser extension.
Return to the original public page, wait for it to finish loading, click the SingleFile icon and save the resulting `.html` file.

For a whole public site, follow the HTTrack instructions above using the public homepage. Do not sign in, enter passwords or attempt to reach private pages.

Record the page title, author or collective, original URL, publication date and the date you saved it. Internet Archive is an additional copy, not your only copy. Submitting a homepage does not guarantee that the Archive captured every linked page.

Finally, test the local backup with Wi-Fi turned off. Open its `index.html`, click through several pages, and make sure images and documents load.
Preserve public material only. Do not bypass logins, collect private data or republish material that could expose people. Respect authorship, context and removal requests.

An export is not a mirror. A mirror is not enough. Keep both. Keep two copies.

#Noblogs #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #MovementArchives #AutisticiInventati #ResistantCommunication #IndependentMedia
#SabotMedia

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117168452160850013

"...[W]hen should individuals and organizations be able to use automated tools or “bots” to collect data from or interact with openly published websites — whether we call it “scraping”, “crawling,” or simply automated data collection? Conversely, what kind of control should websites have over when that happens, or what use the collected data is put to?"

#AI #internetArchive #IETF #webscraping #freedom #copyright #archiving