S.C. Healy

The internet isn't a cloud - it’s a physical machine inside a San Francisco church. We did a deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack. • 1 Trillion+ web pages archived • 99 Petabytes of unique data • No A/C: Server heat warms the building Read the full teardown of the machine that remembers history. @hackernoon @brewster_kahle @internetarchive hackernoon.com/the-long-now-o…

The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed. @Brewster_Kahle says people clearly want access to the internet’s past. Hear Kahle (Internet Archive), Vint Cerf (Google), Cindy Cohn (EFF) & Jon Stokes (Ars Technica) explore the past, present & future of the web on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-o… #OpenWeb @vgcerf @Brewster_Kahle @jonst0kes

Yahoo Christmas website in December 2003 #WebDesignHistory

The proceedings & recordings of the 5 presentations at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2025 Workshop from ACM Hypertext (@ACMHT) in September 2025 are now live! * Proceedings: ualberta.scholaris.ca/items/02da5c1d… * Recordings: wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/content/4… (@ Internet Archive & YT)

Gmail Beta in 2004 #InternetHistory

Our @JASIST article, "Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements", was recently published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/A… @wileyinresearch Co-authors: Alex Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, @machawk1, @phonedude_mln, & @weiglemc (1/9)

Club Penguin website in 2005 #WebDesignHistory

🎬 Enter the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest! Remix & reimagine treasures from 1930—early sound films, cartoons, music, literature & art—and turn them into unique 2–3 minute films. Use the Internet Archive’s collections & your creativity to breathe new life into these cultural gems. 📅 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/202… #contest #film #publicdomain

For today’s #FashionFriday, we’re sharing some lovely sketches from a magazine titled "The Rambler"✨ The Rambler (1914) features a wonderful collection of sketches, photographs, poems, and stories compiled by Charlotte Kennedy of Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone. PRONI Ref – D2351/9/28

Setting up Windows 98

On #WebArchiveWednesday read up on what @britishlibrary are selecting for the #UKWA @rugbyworldcup collection. All eyes will be on Bristol this weekend when the #RedRoses take on the #Thistles in the Quarter Finals. britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/202… #RWC2025 #WebArchiving #UKLegalDeposit

In August 2007 Scott Belsky founded the Behance 1.0 community platform, which allows designers, photographers, and artists from different fields to present their creative work in the form of online portfolios. In December 2012, Behance was purchased by Adobe Systems.

Congrats to Dr Neil Carlin @ucdarchaeology & colleagues on their new Open Access paper: Guiry, E, et al (2025) 'Pigs, pannage, and the solstice: isotopic insights from prehistoric feasting at Newgrange' out this morning with the Prehistoric Society 1/3 doi.org/10.1017/ppr.20…

On #WebArchiveWednesday read up on the content the @natlibscot are selecting for the #UKWA @rugbyworldcup collection. @scotlandteam kick off their tournament on Saturday 23rd August. blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/202… #RWC2025 #AsOne #WebArchiving #UKLegalDeposit

Report: “SF-Based Internet Archive is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?” infodocket.com/2025/07/24/rep… #libraries #govdocs #FDLP @internetarchive

This October, the @waybackmachine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/way… Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T

From a 1970s book about Computers.

“No film left unscanned.” 🎞️ Film historian Rick Prelinger (@footage) explains why motion picture film is vanishing, and why digitization is crucial to saving our cinematic history. Full video ➡️ youtu.be/AdtZtvlFi9o #DigitalPreservation #FilmHistory #MemoryHole #Film

The @NLIreland’s annual #Studentship programmes are now open for applications for 2025-2026 for: ⭐ #Library Studentship ⭐ #Archival Studentship ⭐ #Research Studentship 📆 #Apply by: 3pm on 13th May 2025: nli.ie/about-us/worki… @historians_ie @UCDHistory @ucddublin