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Countless books disappear not because their authors lacked talent, but because of bad luck, war, politics, or time.
From “On the Importance of Remembering Forgotten Books,” by Brad Bigelow.
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/43/
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🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚
📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/43/
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🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚
📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/43/
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🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚
📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/43/
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🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚
📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/43/
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🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚
📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/43/
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The internet isn’t just an endless archive anymore. 🌐
Journalist Philip Bump argues that preserving journalism and digital history is essential for accountability, research, and understanding what happened online before it disappears.
📚 Read the Q&A with Bump & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/97
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new -
The internet isn’t just an endless archive anymore. 🌐
Journalist Philip Bump argues that preserving journalism and digital history is essential for accountability, research, and understanding what happened online before it disappears.
📚 Read the Q&A with Bump & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/97
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new -
The internet isn’t just an endless archive anymore. 🌐
Journalist Philip Bump argues that preserving journalism and digital history is essential for accountability, research, and understanding what happened online before it disappears.
📚 Read the Q&A with Bump & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/97
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new -
The internet isn’t just an endless archive anymore. 🌐
Journalist Philip Bump argues that preserving journalism and digital history is essential for accountability, research, and understanding what happened online before it disappears.
📚 Read the Q&A with Bump & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/97
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new -
The internet isn’t just an endless archive anymore. 🌐
Journalist Philip Bump argues that preserving journalism and digital history is essential for accountability, research, and understanding what happened online before it disappears.
📚 Read the Q&A with Bump & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/97
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new -
VANISHING CULTURE is out now!
From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
🌐 Websites vanish
🗞️ News archives go offline
🎮 Games become unplayable
📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadableIt asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon
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VANISHING CULTURE is out now!
From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
🌐 Websites vanish
🗞️ News archives go offline
🎮 Games become unplayable
📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadableIt asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon
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VANISHING CULTURE is out now!
From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
🌐 Websites vanish
🗞️ News archives go offline
🎮 Games become unplayable
📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadableIt asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon
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VANISHING CULTURE is out now!
From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
🌐 Websites vanish
🗞️ News archives go offline
🎮 Games become unplayable
📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadableIt asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon
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VANISHING CULTURE is out now!
From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
🌐 Websites vanish
🗞️ News archives go offline
🎮 Games become unplayable
📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadableIt asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon
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Why should people care about preserving regional cookbooks? 🕳️
In VANISHING CULTURE, essayist Katie Livingston explains why the humble home extension cookbook, often produced by churches or social groups, should be preserved and shared for generations to come.
📚 Read #VANISHINGCULTURE free from the #InternetArchive ⤵️
📖 Download: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new@bookstodon
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Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️
Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.
📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/77
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new@maria #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation
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Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️
Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.
📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/77
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new@maria #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation
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Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️
Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.
📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/77
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new@maria #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation
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Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️
Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.
📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/77
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new@maria #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation
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Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️
Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.
📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/77
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new@maria #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation
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75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form.
But that’s not the whole story.
25% are still at risk or unavailable.
Preservation isn’t automatic.It takes deliberate effort to keep cultural history accessible.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form.
But that’s not the whole story.
25% are still at risk or unavailable.
Preservation isn’t automatic.It takes deliberate effort to keep cultural history accessible.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form.
But that’s not the whole story.
25% are still at risk or unavailable.
Preservation isn’t automatic.It takes deliberate effort to keep cultural history accessible.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form.
But that’s not the whole story.
25% are still at risk or unavailable.
Preservation isn’t automatic.It takes deliberate effort to keep cultural history accessible.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form.
But that’s not the whole story.
25% are still at risk or unavailable.
Preservation isn’t automatic.It takes deliberate effort to keep cultural history accessible.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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@[email protected] 470000 have been saved, but how many are lost? #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon -
@[email protected] 470000 have been saved, but how many are lost? #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon -
@[email protected] 470000 have been saved, but how many are lost? #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon -
@[email protected] 470000 have been saved, but how many are lost? #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon -
RT @internetarchive
The web is disappearing 🕳️According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter
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RT @internetarchive
The web is disappearing 🕳️According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter
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RT @internetarchive
The web is disappearing 🕳️According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter
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RT @internetarchive
The web is disappearing 🕳️According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter
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RT @internetarchive
The web is disappearing 🕳️According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter
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When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️
But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.
That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️
But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.
That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️
But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.
That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️
But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.
That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️
But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.
That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon
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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
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There's still time to join us tomorrow night for the VANISHING CULTURE book launch! 📖
Celebrate, meet the contributors, and hear why corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history. 📖
📅 Thu, April 23
🕠 5:30 pm: Doors open & entertainment
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/vanishing-culture-book-launch/ -
📝 Planning your week, San Francisco Bay Area? 🌁 Consider joining us Thursday for the VANISHING CULTURE book launch! 📖
When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal, our collective memory is compromised. This new report from the Internet Archive raises awareness of what is at risk and what we can do about it.
📅 Thu, April 23
🕠 5:30 pm: Doors open & entertainment
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with little more than rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. Easily lost, they are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 This #Thanksgiving, celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/vanishing-culture-preserving-cookbooks/
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Once the lifeblood of online creativity—from silly games to iconic animations—Flash has all but disappeared from the live web.
In our latest Vanishing Culture essay, free-range archivist Jason Scott explores why Flash deserves to be preserved, and how the Internet Archive is keeping it alive.
🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/08/06/vanishing-culture-why-preserve-flash/
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ICYMI: The @internetarchive published my contribution to their "Vanishing Culture" report.
https://blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/vanishing-culture-recovering-lost-software/
I focused on recovering lost software, particularly the games and experiments of the late cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen.
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #atarist #appleii #ibmpc #commodoreamiga #VanishingCulture
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"Only 13 percent of all classic games released between 1960 and 2009 are currently commercially available." #games #preservation #software #lost #vanishingculture #gamesculture blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/v...
Vanishing Culture: Recovering ... -
Vanishing Culture: No Film Left Unscanned
"To think about film preservation is to think about much more than what we call movies."
By Rick Prelinger via @internetarchive
https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/vanishing-culture-no-film-left-unscanned/
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"Home movies [...] ancestors of the videos we shot on camcorders and now capture on cell phones. We might think of each home movie as a pixel in a giant collective documentary spanning a hundred years, endless films picturing family, friends, travels, rituals and celebrations."
https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/vanishing-culture-no-film-left-unscanned/
#HomeMovies #film #archive #InternetArchive #culture #VanishingCulture