Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’
Class President: Center for Democracy and Technology
They didn’t just show up—they helped write the rules of the internet. And 30 years later, they’re still fighting to keep it open.
See more of the Class of ’96
️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/ Go Wayback to 1996
https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174718/https://cdt.org/ 
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’
Class President: Center for Democracy and Technology
They didn’t just show up—they helped write the rules of the internet. And 30 years later, they’re still fighting to keep it open.
See more of the Class of ’96
️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/ Go Wayback to 1996
https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174718/https://cdt.org/ Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.
Today, some 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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ -
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Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.
Today, some 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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/If The New York Times, The Atlantic, ans USA Today are preventing archiving or caching of their content, perhaps Mastodon and Misskey administrators should be denying these publishers from trending.
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Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.
Today, some 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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/If The New York Times, The Atlantic, ans USA Today are preventing archiving or caching of their content, perhaps Mastodon and Misskey administrators should be denying these publishers from trending.
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If The New York Times, The Atlantic, ans USA Today are preventing archiving or caching of their content, perhaps Mastodon and Misskey administrators should be denying these publishers from trending.
@NetscapeNavigator @internetarchive +9001%
I'd ban them if it was my decision!
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Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.
Today, some 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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/@internetarchive Giben you have #ArchivalDuty by #LibraryOfCongress, I think these sites should be forced to not block the #InternetArchive!
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If The New York Times, The Atlantic, ans USA Today are preventing archiving or caching of their content, perhaps Mastodon and Misskey administrators should be denying these publishers from trending.
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Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.
Today, some 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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/@internetarchive Try to appreciate the magnitude of the existential crisis in publishing at the moment due to scrapers stealing their content and using AI to regurgitate it. To say my various newspaper/media contacts are alarmed would be a gross understatement.
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