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The Museum of the Human Web is a collection of artifacts from the pre-AI era of internet and web creation, celebrating human ingenuity. Proceeds from the sweepstakes benefit the Internet Archive and Computer History Museum.
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.
Over 340 local news outlets have implemented measures to limit the Internet Archive's access to their content, likely due to copyright or scraping concerns.
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.
The Aadam Jacobs Collection Project is a volunteer effort to digitize and preserve over 10,000 live music recordings spanning three decades, including early performances by bands like Nirvana and Phish, with the goal of uploading them to the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive within 2-3 years.