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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: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

🌟 “Stardust” by Katie Martucci reimagines Stardust into a dreamy new collaboration 🎶 Created for the 2025 @WNYC Public Song Project, Katie and her friend Devon transform the jazz standard with inspiration from contemporary reinterpretations, showing how the public domain can spark something entirely new 💫 🎧 Listen, then create your own! Submissions for the 2026 Project are still open; deadline May 10! wnyc.org/story/2026-pub… 📩 Questions? Email aoi@wnyc.org

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 unreadable It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️ 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

Congrats to "UN MONTAGE OF THE SUNDAY SCARIES" by Antonio Mendez, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 An excellent remix of 1920s & 1930s observational films with a contemporary electronic soundtrack that brings these scenes into conversation with our present moment. Watch the full short film ⤵️ archive.org/details/un-mon… #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

There's still one week left to enter the 2026 Public Song Project 🎶 @WNYC invites everyone to create songs inspired by the public domain—remix, reinterpret, or reimagine anything and be heard on WNYC & the Internet Archive. 📅 Submit your song by May 10 📝 Submission form, contest rules & more info at wnyc.org/story/2026-pub… 📩 Questions? Email aoi@wnyc.org @wnyc @InternetArchive #PublicSongProject #PublicRadio

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 public social groups, should be preserved and shared for generations to come. 🎧️ Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanis… 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️ 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #bookTwitter

“It Had to Be You” by Kate Chaston 🎙️ gives the jazz standard a fresh heartbeat ❤️ Adapted from the 1924 classic by Isham Jones & Gus Kahn, this entry for the 2025 @WNYC Public Song Project transforms the original into a personal story, blending vintage samples, modern production, and entirely self-built vocals 🎶 Let it inspire your entry to the 2026 Project 🎧 ⏳ Deadline, Sunday May 10, 2026 at wnyc.org/story/2026-pub… 📩 Questions? Email aoi@wnyc.org

Arguments in Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia show how courtroom openness relates to fairness, accountability, and public trust in justice, insights not visible in the ruling itself. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision recognized a First Amendment right for the public & press to attend criminal trials. Such perspectives are now possible through 125,000+ #SCOTUS records made accessible through a donation from the Wolf Law Library at @WMLawSchool. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s… #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary

Congrats to "LIFE OF A MAN" by Salma Garcia, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 "In a man-centered world, where do women fit in?" A striking juxtaposition of clips exposing outdated gender roles and unconscious bias. Watch the full short film ⤵️ archive.org/details/lifeof… #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

3️⃣/3️⃣ Want to learn more? Join Merrilee Proffitt & James R. Jacobs for a GODORT Friday Chats discussion on the Preservation of Government Information Call to Action. Register once for the full series: msu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Full schedule & details: godort.libguides.com/fridaychats #govinfo #DemocracysLibrary @MerrileeIAm

2️⃣/3️⃣ The 2026 Information Stewardship Forum brought together librarians, technologists, archivists, and data users to address the preservation of U.S. government information. Out of that three-day convening came a shared call to action: align around core principles, identify gaps in public information infrastructure, and build a distributed digital preservation infrastructure to protect long-term public access.

🧵1️⃣/3️⃣ Government information is public memory—and it needs protecting. The Preservation of Government Information: A Call to Action, developed through the March 2026 Information Stewardship Forum in support of the Internet Archive’s Democracy’s Library program, calls on institutions and individuals to commit to preserving the public record. Read it. Sign it. Share it. 📝 publicinformationtrust.org

What happens when access to culture depends on platforms that can simply remove it? 🕳️ In VANISHING CULTURE, Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, Katie Livingston, and Dave Hansen explore how licensing, corporate control, and shutdowns shape what survives in the digital record and what disappears. 🎧️ Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanis… 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️ 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #bookTwitter

"Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026)", a 175-page report from Internet Archive Press. Cultural heritage vanishes without active preservation. Here e.g. @uncommnephemera scanned & uploaded a rare 1953 educational filmstrip "France in the New World".

Turn Sound UP. Go WayBACK. DANCE, Hampster, DANCE ➡️ web.archive.org/web/1999042313…

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE DIVORCEE (1930) 💔 🎬 In this pivotal “equalizing” scene, Norma Shearer’s Jerry tells her unfaithful husband that she has taken a lover of her own, confronting Hollywood’s double standards head-on. 🏆 Shearer won the 3rd Academy Awards Best Actress Oscar for her fearless performance in this groundbreaking drama. Watch the full film ➡️ archive.org/details/the-di… #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #PreCodeHollywood

The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional is one of the most studied decisions in American history. But the briefs filed in Brown v. Board of Education reveal dimensions that the opinion alone does not capture. Those briefs are now accessible to everyone on the Internet Archive, thanks to the Wolf Law Library at @WMLawSchool. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s…

📅 TOMORROW 📅 PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI (Future Knowledge #podcast) There’s still time to join this live discussion on AI, publishers, and the future of our digital memory. Our discussion features writer Mike Masnick (Techdirt), Wayback Machine director Mark Graham, and media lawyer Kendra Albert (Albert Sellars LLP). 📆 Tues, April 28 🕙 10 AM–11 AM PDT/🕐 1 PM–2PM EDT 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/preserving-t… @mmasnick @MarkGraham @bkcharvard @Auths_Alliance #WebArchiving #DigitalPreservation

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: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #bookTwitter

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: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #BookTwitter