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The Internet Archive's Vintage AI Collection

Hacker News Top · 5d ago

The Internet Archive has curated a vintage AI collection to preserve and showcase historical materials related to artificial intelligence.

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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-13 Cached

An analysis of 657,607 links from the 0.mk URL shortener (2009-2014) found that 76.7% of destinations no longer load, quantifying the decay of the old web.

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Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-08 Cached

A guide from Cambridge University for creating disk images of floppy disks for long-term preservation, covering identification, hardware, cleaning, and imaging.

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Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-04 Cached

Anna's Archive offers a $200,000 bounty for obtaining all book scans from Google Books or similar collections, aiming to liberate scanned books that are only exposed as snippets.

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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-30 Cached

A blog post from the Internet Archive analyzing recent link-rot studies (Pew, Zittrain, ODU) and showing how the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of otherwise dead webpages, highlighting the ongoing problem of web decay and the role of web archives.

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Making pebble apps in 2026

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-02 Cached

A developer shares their experience building apps for the revived Pebble watch in 2026, highlighting the use of AI tools and the preservation of the original app ecosystem through the Rebble Alliance.

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ASCII by Jason Scott

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-15

New project or documentary from Jason Scott about ASCII art and digital preservation.

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Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-12 Cached

A petition calls on major media outlets like the New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to resume collaborating with the Internet Archive, arguing that blocking the Wayback Machine undermines press freedom and historical record preservation.

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Internet Archive Switzerland

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-09 Cached

Internet Archive Switzerland is an independent Swiss non-profit foundation based in St. Gallen, partnering with the University of St. Gallen to preserve AI models in a Gen AI Archive and launching an Endangered Archives initiative to rescue vulnerable digital collections worldwide.

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Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-17 Cached

The Internet Archive has digitized and made available the first issue of BYTE magazine from September 1975, covering early microcomputer hardware, software, and the emerging personal computer revolution including topics like microprocessor selection, assembly language, and the Altair computer.

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