#wayback machine - web archive

[mesopelagic-zone]

Internet Archive and 'The Wayback Machine' are Experiencing an Existential, Legal Threat.

Below is a link to a petition whose goal it is to save one of the most effective tools against digital censorship available to the public.

"At a time when digital information is being deleted, rewritten, and erased, preservation is more important than ever."

Signing this petition is FREE and takes less than 5 minutes.

Recently, user @we-are-astronomer was able to utilize Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to locate and preserve government articles DELETED from the NASA website by Trump Administration censors. For more information, their post can be found underneath the break.

If resources such as these are destroyed, we risk losing every digital article and file deleted under the Trump Administration's censorship. Without a method for restoring erased information, censorship proceeds unhindered. No body, no crime.

Collective action gets results. Do your part to protect public peace of mind.

[arconinternet]

The Centre for the Easily Amused (Website, 1996-2001)

A must for any bored time traveler! You can visit it via the Wayback Machine here. Mouseover buttons to see what they do - the Links section and its subsections' archives are particularly useful.

[threedee-memories]

[fionnaskyborn]

Sho Minazuki concept artworks

Art by Shigenori Soejima, as seen in Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold: Official Design Works

(Extracted from The Fighters Generation website, as seen here. Internet Archive page provided here.)

[archivlibrarianist]

"The Browser Extension

"Say hello to the Wayback Machine’s Browser Extension.

"It’s available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.

"This free tool is an easy and very fast way to determine directly from your browser if an archived version of the content (HTML web page, PDF, etc.) has been archived (at least once). If a copy/copies is/are available, accessing it/them can be done within seconds and with minimal effort. No cutting and pasting needed. "

[dark-jessica]

i'm begging you to please look at the official leonardo dicaprio website from 1999

why didn't we listen when we had the chance? 😞

[nofollowgame]

No Follow 「game」 site updates!

🔶 You can now visit snapshots of Proxy's site, fr0zen t0ast, on the Flashback Trip Machine! 🔶 "It's fr0zen t0ast, Proxy's personal blog -- or should you say, ~* bl0ggie *~! What will you uncover in this fun and colorful site?" 🔶 Or play from the beginning:

[waybackwanderer]

Big thanks to everyone who shared and followed this bot during this year's Halloween event. This bot will start posting again in a few days.

In the meantime, here's a compilation of every video posted during October (plus timestamps in the comments).

Also, here's a compilation of the videos posted during Pride Month.

Note that YouTube doesn't let me post some timestamps for whatever reason. I'll keep trying to find a workaround, but if anyone knows a fix for this or a better way to share a long comment filled with timestamps, let me know.

[supersmew]

something something lost media is everyones responsibility to preserve

[marsmarvel02]

At the moment of this posting, the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine are under a DDoS attack

And I’m wondering- where’s the outcry? Where are the people ready to denounce the hackers who would target such a bastion of freedom of speech? Does anyone care?

Why would people leap to defend those in a foreign country, but not lend one scintilla of care to an organization devoted to free speech on the Internet?

[sillimancer]

I hate that there are entire slices of the internet that are no longer accessible because Flash is dead

[naradreamt]

I'll have you know I've been working tirelessly at this stupid fucking doc and going through wayback like an absolute animal, it's the only thing keeping me sane atm

[arconinternet]

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - Print Collections 1, 2, 4 & 5 (Books, 1984/1986/1992/1996)

You can digitally borrow them here.

You can read even more entries into the contest - a search for the worst opening lines of non-existent books - on it official website here. You can view it as it appeared in 1997 via the Wayback Machine here.

[threedee-memories]

[noctomania]

Help Protect the Internet Archive!

“If our patrons around the globe think this latest situation is upsetting, then they should be very worried about what the publishing and recording industries have in mind,” added Kahle. “I think they are trying to destroy this library entirely and hobble all libraries everywhere. But just as we’re resisting the DDoS attack, we appreciate all the support in pushing back on this unjust litigation against our library and others.”

I just donated to Archive.org because they have spent the past two decades building this Digital Library that has collected over 100 PETRAbytes (1 petra = 1000 tera) of content from all over time and the world.

All kinds of media, even game emulators.

Books you can rent.

Full feature films.

Historical documents.

Webpages - The Wayback Machine, archiving over 860mill webpages across time, is part of the library.

The have a slew of projects designed to help allow libraries and everyday individuals contribute to this library as well as help give everyone access like Offline Archive , Bookserver - even in unique ways like with the Bookmobile!

They are also under attack though, which is what encouraged me to contribute today. Libraries across the US, and lets be real - access to education in many areas of the world - is under attack. I do suspect not just DDoS, not just businesses, but even governments seeking to oppress people will try to suppress this archive and the knowledge is holds.

While you can donate there are other ways to help:

Volunteering is an option, if that fits your bill. If you have collections that should be digitized, they have Scanning Services that would help people contribute non-digitized media to the archive. Also the aptly named Open Library is a great place to contribute either with books or if you are a programmer you can build on top of the data as well. There are also some jobs available! (i can't be sure without their info, but they may qualify as a PSLF employer since they are non-profit)

Archive.org is my new favorite place of all time. Both because of the content but also because of the mission at the heart of it all:

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

[tossedmedia]

Neil post:

these are my favorite photos i've found so far

more of neils awesome photography!!! i mean these are super old but seriously dude knows how to take a picture (probably why he wrote a song about it wink wink)

found these off a link on a version of eviltrailmix.com from around 2006 i think (if you see a mess of open directories you're at the right place!)