CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@internetarchive signed, sealed, delivered I'm yours baby.

@internetarchive So much for the newspaper of record. What made them the newspaper of record is microfilms of NYT back issues in libraries all over the world. I suppose they're thinking having to schlep over to the library and ask the librarian to use the microfilm viewer is a reasonable amount of friction to count as "payment" of sorts, whether or not they get a cut. For all I know, maybe they do. I know nothing of library practices. Are the libraries paying some kind of royalties on periodicals on microfilm? At any rate, surely moneygrubbing every back issue is a disservice to legacy. I do of course understand that piracy is a discourtesy to living authors. Perhaps commerce is all that remains at this point in time.astoundingteam.com/2021/09/08/…

@internetarchiveBut it's- so embarrassing when it archives our oops moments - it's a classical path to circumvent payment systems for news sites

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/#WaybackMachine

@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.#ChipPaper #BirdCageLiner

To mark the 30th anniversary of the #InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web.Before feeds, before algorithms, before we assumed everything online would last forever, this was the era that set it all in motion: Yahoo! Quake, Hotmail, The Onion and the archivists preserving it all.Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 More https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/#Classof96