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’
Best Dressed: eBay
Where the outfit and the backstory come with it. Vintage, rare, unforgettable…just like the early web.
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/19961022174919/http://www.cnet.com/ 
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’
Best Dressed: eBay
Where the outfit and the backstory come with it. Vintage, rare, unforgettable…just like the early web.
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/19961022174919/http://www.cnet.com/ 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
️ https://www.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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/@internetarchive
I'm a little confused. I suspect that this is meant for everyone to sign but the header seems to suggest that you are looking for only journalists to sign. Could you clarify? -
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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/@internetarchive I block the Wayback Machine because you allow AI to scrape my archived content. I don't want my content to be used to train AI. Why else do you think everyone is blocking your Web portal?!
P.S. - Don't hand me any of that BigTech "Fair Use" BS either.
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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
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/@internetarchive
But it's
- so embarrassing when it archives our oops moments
- it's a classical path to circumvent payment systems for news sites -
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