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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

Memorial Day weekend calls for picnics 🧺 One Hundred Picnic Suggestions (1915) contains ideas both traditional and… questionable to modern tastes before you pack your picnic basket: chicken salad, roast beef sandwiches 🥪, eggs in aspic jelly 🥚, and… tongue salad 👅🥗?! Check out this public domain culinary curiosity in our collections ⤵️ archive.org/details/onehun… #MemorialDay #picnic #cookbooks #vintagecookbooks

“You’ve Got Mail.” 📬 Founded in 1985 as Quantum Computer Services & renamed America Online in 1991, AOL was synonymous with online services. 🌐 In the ’90s, AOL flooded mailboxes with millions of free trial CDs 💿, introducing an entire generation to email, chat rooms, instant messaging, and the web itself. Though the dial up era is long gone, AOL persists today as a digital media brand. Browse decades of web history with @WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org @AOL #DigitalHistory #InternetHistory #90sNostalgia

5/5 Each digitized page captures a chain of civic decisions from creation to preservation to public access. Together they form a long record of how California communities have grown and changed over time. #digitization #opengov #california #archives #localgovernment @UCBerkeley

4/5 This work is about more than preservation. It is about access. Materials once only available in person at libraries or government offices are now openly searchable, enabling new research at scale across decades of public records.

1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ That's one million pages digitized and counting. The Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley is marking this major milestone in its LoCAL Digitization Project. A growing archive of California local government history searchable and online. Learn more: igs.berkeley.edu/news/one-milli… 🧵 1/5

2/2 “The loss is just staggering,” says folklore scholar Laura Gibbs. Only a tiny fraction of African stories in hundreds of languages were ever recorded. Helen Nde warns that without preservation and access, important cultural knowledge and perspectives could disappear forever. 📚 Read this interview & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #AfricanFolklore #DigitalPreservation @hm_nde

🧵1/2 African folktales were once passed down through generations as community treasures. Today, many survive only through preservation efforts and digital access. 🌍 Laura Gibbs and Helen Nde are fighting to preserve African folktales before more cultural memory disappears 🕳️ From “Preserving African Folktales: Interview with Laura Gibbs and Helen Nde" by journalist Caralee Adams, part of the Vanishing Culture report for VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 🔗 archive.org/details/vanish…

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 ➡️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ #WaybackMachine

Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Most Quotable: Salon Smart, sharp & written to be shared. See more of the Class of ’96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/cel… #Classof96 @Salon

@ednewtonrex @internetarchive @waybackmachine 👋 Librarian @internetarchive here. See the FAQ: help.archive.org/help/faq-publi… “The Wayback Machine is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, and monitoring to prevent abusive access, and we watch for and actively respond to new scraping patterns as they emerge.”

Tell the publishers to stop blocking @waybackmachine 🚫🕳️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

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 ➡️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ #WaybackMachine

Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Most Likely to LAN Party: Quake Before Twitch streams there were cables, pizza & Quake. You had to be there (literally). See more of the Class of ’96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/cel… #Classof96 @idSoftware @bethesda @Doom

Tell the publishers to keep the news in the @waybackmachine ➡️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web’s memory bank withstand the AI era? f-st.co/XelXI7B

Just last summer I sat in a packed room of journalists at IRE who gave @MarkGraham a standing ovation for his work manning the Wayback Machine + Internet Archive. What an incredibly short-sighted and destructive move by these publishers

Join us in welcoming Internet Archive Switzerland!🇨🇭 This independent non profit foundation in St. Gallen, Switzerland, is a mission-aligned organization with the Internet Archive, Internet Archive Canada and Internet Archive Europe, with the common goal of Universal Access to All Knowledge. Visit their website and learn about their mission and projects. internetarchive.ch

Legal scholar Ryan Calo argues that technology is never inevitable. The real challenge is building laws and institutions that can keep pace before new tools reshape society around us. In LAW & TECHNOLOGY On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Calo joins Danielle Citron to discuss regulation, accountability, drone surveillance, generative AI, and why policymakers need frameworks that look beyond whatever technology is currently in front of them. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/law-a… #AI #privacy #law #technology @RCalo @DanielleCitron