#wayback-machine — Public Fediverse posts

🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰

At a time when parts of the web are disappearing, journalists are defending web preservation, accountability, and access to the public record.

Read Mark's letter ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine/

This is critical, because web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. 🕸️📚

Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Join the journalists in telling publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#WaybackMachine @MarkGraham

"30 ans d’Internet Archive : peut-on sauvegarder le Web avant qu’il ne disparaisse ?"

#Internet #InterWeb #Web #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine ...

https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/30-ans-d-internet-archive-peut-on-sauvegarder-le-web-avant-qu-il-ne-disparaisse

A Thank You to #Journalists Supporting the #WaybackMachine
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine
As publishers block the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for unfounded concerns over AI scraping, hundreds of journalists have signed a public letter supporting the Wayback Machine Below, Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, shares a message of thanks to the journalism community for standing up for web preservation, accountability, and access to the public record

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to Keep Wayback Machine

https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#HackerNews #WaybackMachine #SaveTheArchive #DigitalPreservation #MediaEthics #OnlineHistory

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#WaybackMachine

News organizations are increasingly blocking the #WaybackMachine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰

In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, @mark, Director of the Wayback Machine at the #InternetArchive, explains how major newsroom staff rely on archived web history because their internal archives often miss the deeper public record.

🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/preserving-the-web-in-the-age-of-ai
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026

@internetarchive
I'm a little confused. I suspect that this is meant for everyone to sign but the header seems to suggest that you are looking for only journalists to sign. Could you clarify?

#WaybackMachine

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#WaybackMachine

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#WaybackMachine

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#WaybackMachine

Danke dafür iBlali

#KI #AI #InternetArchive #WayBackMachine

https://p.dw.com/p/5CKXK

Publishers fighting AI companies are increasingly colliding with web preservation systems ⚖️

In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, @masnick.com examines how attempts to block AI scraping restrict access to archiving tools like the Wayback Machine, creating collateral damage for the public record.

🎧 Listen on the #FutureKnowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/preserving-the-web-in-the-age-of-ai

#WaybackMachine

@internetarchive

Well, it seems didn't even take a quarter of a year for reality to bite:

»Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, the most important archiving projects in the history of the internet, told 404 Media that the skyrocketing costs of storage is “a very real issue costing us time and money.”

“We have found that the preferred 28-30TB drives are just not available or at very high price,” Kahle said. “We gather over 100 terabytes of new materials each day, and we have over 210 Petabytes of materials already archived on machines that need continuous upgrades and maintenance, so we need to constantly get new hard drives.” «

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet/

#WaybackMachine #InternetArchive

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1.

Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site.

When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible.

Explore 30 years of web history: https://web.archive.org

#90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory #WebDesign

Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️
Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣

When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️📰

Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine.
✍️ Sign here: https://savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

This campaign is a project of @fight ✊

Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/

"in total, 241 news sites from nine countries explicitly disallow at least one of the four Internet Archive crawling bots ... 87% — are owned by USA Today Co., the largest newspaper conglomerate in the United States" Reddit, The New York Times and The Guardian have also restricted it, the latter citing a desire to block #AI scrapers.
#internetArchive #waybackMachine #AI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/04/14/why-major-news-sites-are-blocking-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine/

Mein DW-Kollege Martin Muno hat einen guten Artikel über die Krise von #WaybackMachine und #InternetArchive geschrieben:

https://www.dw.com/de/archiveorg-wayback-machine-internet-archiv-ki-digitales-ged%C3%A4chtnis/a-76820562

Das Kernproblem: Krasse, schwer aufzulösende Widersprüche zwischen Proponent*innen einer digitalen Allmende, "normalen", marktorientierten Verlagen und Late Stage Capitalism AI Bros, die einfach alles crawlen und ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste monetarisieren wollen.

Und die Politik? Hat natürlich gepennt.

🔧 Wayback Machine Web Extension - офіційне розширення від Internet Archive для інтеграції браузера з #WaybackMachine — інструмент для миттєвого доступу до архівних версій вебсторінок.

Ключові можливості:
• Збереження поточної сторінки в архіві в один клік
• Перегляд найстаріших і найновіших збережених версій
• Автоматична пропозиція архівної копії для недоступних сайтів

🛠 Платформи: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari

https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextension

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Aram Zucker-Scharff says: The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril. https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-peril/ #WaybackMachine

23 store nyhedsmedier forhindrer nu Internet Archives #WaybackMachine i at gemme kopier af deres indhold

De fleste begrunder dette med frygt for, at de gemte sider kan blive brugt som kilde-materiale til at træne kunstig intelligens #AI på deres indhold
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/news-outlets-are-blocking-wayback-machine-from-archiving-their-pages-23-outlets-concerned-ai-companies-might-abuse-fair-use-and-use-it-to-train-their-models

"…it is important to be clear about what the #WaybackMachine is:
It is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, & monitoring to prevent abusive access, and we watch for new scraping patterns as they emerge.

When #libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. #Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and #history becomes easier to rewrite."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Over 100 journalists including Rachel Maddow, Cory Doctorow, and Ellen Nakashima have signed a letter to the Internet Archive celebrating the #WaybackMachine as a crucial resource for their work.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-13-100-journalists-applaud-the-internet-archives-role-in-preserving-the-public-record/

I was pretty flatout with WikiCon Australia 2026 Canberra but here's what happened this week:

An Australian musician is raising awareness about the opacity of the international music royalty system and news organisations blocking archiving by the Wayback Machine threaten the historical record.

https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-30/

#Copyright #Music #MusicRoyalties #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine @wm_au

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116404132538122284

I used Internet Archive and Wayback Machine extensively in researching my non-fiction philosophy book. That site is a warehouse of priceless treasure!!!

#InternetArchive
#WaybackMachine

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow, Ellen Nakashima, Ashley Belanger, Kat Tenbarge, Stu Neatby, Michael Alex, Laura Flynn, Zara Stone, and many more, back the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record. 🗂️

Maddow calls it a “national treasure” for journalism and accountability.

Read more at Fight for the Future⬇️ https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-13-100-journalists-applaud-the-internet-archives-role-in-preserving-the-public-record/

@internetarchive @fight @pluralistic