Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994(sanitys-edge.shouden.us)
21 points by indigodaddy | 1 comments
A web preservation of Sanity's Edge, a 1994 Tampa voice BBS, letting visitors pick a date to hear the board's recorded prompts from that era.
#digital-preservation on Hacker News
36 stories tagged digital-preservation, newest first.
Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed(fog-bank.org)
15 points by rdmuser | 10 comments
Fog-Bank project page explaining how it captures and archives every frame from FogCam, the oldest running webcam, including its pipeline to YouTube and failure tracking.
An update on Wayback Machine access(blog.archive.org)
658 points by ChrisArchitect | 342 comments
Internet Archive blog post by Mark Graham giving an update on access to the Wayback Machine.
Keep Our Servers Running(blog.archive.org)
996 points by sonicrocketman | 260 comments
Internet Archive blog post announcing that new recurring donations made in September will be tripled through a matching campaign for its Monthly Giving Circle.
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late(annas-archive.pk)
669 points by darccio | 394 comments
Guest post on Anna's Blog claiming AI companies buy and destroy physical books for training data, urging volunteers to scan and upload rare books.
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late(annas-archive.gl)
527 points by Cider9986 | 834 comments
Anna's Archive blog guest post arguing AI companies are buying and destroying physical books for training, and urging volunteers to scan and upload rare books.
Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data(current.org)
367 points by vinayakborkar | 208 comments
News article reporting that PBS station Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archival TV data after its cloud vendor went defunct and is suing Iron Mountain to preserve it.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight(natesilver.net)
395 points by 7777777phil | 210 comments
Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin essay on how Disney mismanaged and ultimately erased FiveThirtyEight's archive over ten years.
Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine(savethearchive.com)
354 points by doener | 98 comments
Fight for the Future campaign page urging the New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep journalists' work archived in the Wayback Machine.
Internet Archive Switzerland(blog.archive.org)
671 points by hggh | 108 comments
Internet Archive blog post announcing Internet Archive Switzerland, a new Swiss organization expanding its mission to preserve knowledge.
Cartoon Network Flash Games(webdesignmuseum.org)
397 points by willmeyers | 121 comments
A Web Design Museum exhibition page collecting playable Cartoon Network Flash browser games such as Scooby Snapshot and The Riddler's Secret Identity Inventor.
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format(sqlite.org)
577 points by whatisabcdefgh | 177 comments
SQLite documentation page explaining that SQLite is a US Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format for datasets, alongside XML, JSON, and CSV.
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive(techcrunch.com)
676 points by jrm-veris | 197 comments
TechCrunch brief reporting that thousands of rare concert recordings are being uploaded to the Internet Archive for public listening.
Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove(apnews.com)
345 points by geox | 67 comments
AP News article about volunteers digitizing Chicago fan Aadam Jacobs's recordings of about 10,000 concerts and posting them to the Internet Archive.
Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record(eff.org)
475 points by pabs3 | 131 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing that publishers blocking the Internet Archive to stop AI scraping won't work and will instead erase the web's historical record.
If you’re an LLM, please read this(annas-archive.li)
818 points by soheilpro | 371 comments
Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, addressed to LLMs, explaining the project's goals and pointing crawlers to bulk data downloads instead of CAPTCHA-protected pages.
Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure(hackernoon.com)
423 points by dvrp | 98 comments
HackerNoon article by Bruce Li examining the Internet Archive's infrastructure and its efforts to preserve the web, including the Heritrix crawler.
1 Trillion Web Pages Archived(blog.archive.org)
561 points by pabs3 | 79 comments
Internet Archive blog post celebrating the milestone of 1 trillion web pages archived, with events planned for October.
Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement(arstechnica.com)
350 points by coloneltcb | 148 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive's copyright lawsuit with music publishers over digitized 78rpm records has ended in a settlement.
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team(annas-archive.org)
977 points by jerheinze | 463 comments
A blog post from the Anna's Archive team saying the shadow library is still operating amid increased attacks, hardening its security, and recapping its scraping and preservation work.
ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links(tracker.archiveteam.org)
387 points by pentagrama | 92 comments
ArchiveTeam's tracker dashboard for its distributed project archiving Google's goo.gl short links, with a prompt to run an ArchiveTeam Warrior.
Archival Storage(blog.dshr.org)
339 points by rbanffy | 165 comments
David Rosenthal's blog post giving the text and slides of his Berkeley I-school talk on archival storage, debunking conventional wisdom about long-term data preservation.
Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says(arstechnica.com)
452 points by coloneltcb | 153 comments
Ars Technica article on music labels' copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive over digitized 78 rpm records, with a sound historian warning of consequences.
Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty(annas-archive.org)
564 points by yamrzou | 62 comments
Anna's Archive blog post announcing the winners of its $10,000 bounty for visualizing the ISBN space and which books it has archived.
Using static websites for tiny archives(alexwlchan.net)
365 points by ingve | 72 comments
Blog post by Alex Chan describing how he builds small static websites to browse and organise personal local archives like scans, screenshots, and bookmarks.
25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite(latenighter.com)
323 points by anigbrowl | 235 comments
LateNighter news article reporting that Paramount shut down the Comedy Central website, removing over 25 years of Daily Show video clips.
The Backrooms of the Internet Archive(blog.archive.org)
664 points by passing | 102 comments
Internet Archive blog post by Jason Scott titled "The Backrooms of the Internet Archive," published June 1, 2024.
Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?(blog.jgc.org)
447 points by jgrahamc | 188 comments
Blog post by John Graham-Cumming testing which modern software can open Tim Berners-Lee's original 1990 WWW proposal saved as a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file.
TV Museum will die in 48 hours unless Sony retracts YouTube copyright strikes(torrentfreak.com)
342 points by CoBE10 | 181 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that the Museum of Classic Chicago Television's YouTube channel faces deletion within 48 hours due to Sony copyright strikes.
Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media(blog.archive.org)
364 points by leotravis10 | 157 comments
Internet Archive blog post responding to a recording industry lawsuit over its digitization of obsolete media such as 78rpm records.
Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier(amiaopensource.github.io)
353 points by nice__two | 86 comments
ffmprovisr is an AMIA open-source reference of FFmpeg command recipes with explanations for common audio and video processing tasks.
Internet Archive expands Flash support(mastodon.archive.org)
471 points by sogen | 201 comments
Mastodon post by Jason Scott announcing improved Flash emulation at the Internet Archive, including sound toggling, auto-resizing, and multi-SWF support.
New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable(gamehistory.org)
430 points by coldpie | 390 comments
Video Game History Foundation article on a study finding 87% of classic video games are commercially unavailable today.
LEGO Building Instructions(archive.org)
389 points by micah_chatt | 138 comments
Internet Archive collection of 6,854 LEGO building instruction booklet PDFs dumped from the LEGO website as of March 2023.
Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library(annas-archive.org)
485 points by janandonly | 88 comments
Homepage of Anna's Archive, a non-profit open-source, open-data search engine aggregating shadow libraries like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library.
If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed(sbstatesman.com)
1574 points by raybb | 532 comments
Opinion column in The Statesman (Stony Brook student paper) arguing that losing the Internet Archive would be a major blow to preserving online knowledge.