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Book Publishers Go to War With the Internet Archive 

Avatar photo by Billie Anania August 16, 2022August 16, 2022

Major publishing houses, and some authors, accuse the open access platform of “piracy” and copyright infringement.

Posted inFilm

The Woman Who Recorded Decades of TV News on 70,000 VHS Tapes

Avatar photo by Abbey Bender June 6, 2019September 16, 2020

The documentary Recorder explores the life and work of Marion Stokes, who amassed the world’s largest independent TV archive without anyone noticing.

Posted inArt

How the Re-Opening of the Public Domain “Has Allowed Us to Have Our Culture Back”

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson January 28, 2019January 31, 2019

In 2019, thousands of artworks from 1923 entered the public domain. Speakers from Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, and other places share why this matters.

Posted inNews

A Playable Archive of 74 Retro Games, Including Frogger, Tamagotchi, and Donkey Kong

by Claire Voon April 9, 2018June 15, 2022

The Internet Archive has uploaded emulations of classic games to Handheld History, a free digital library, allowing for old-school experiences on modern computers.

Posted inArt

Digitized Artist Talks from the 20th Century, from Alice Neel to Gordon Parks

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 28, 2016November 28, 2016

The Maryland Institute College of Art’s Decker Library is digitizing rare audio from their cultural lecture archives, and offering them to stream on the Internet Archive.

Posted inNews

A Museum for the Blocky Graphics of Early Computer Viruses

by Claire Voon February 18, 2016

When the first PC viruses appeared in the 1980s, they not only tampered with machine systems, but also filled the screens of home computers with technicolor text and flashy graphics or animations.

Posted inArt

MoMA Is Archiving Its Exhibition Websites Before They Expire

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 10, 2015June 11, 2015

Soon over 200 exhibition websites for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), going back to its first web experiments in 1995, will be totally archived, from their images to their code.

Posted inIn Brief

Internet Archive Offers Trip Down Memory Lane (and the Oregon Trail) with 2,400 MS-DOS Games

by Laura C. Mallonee January 8, 2015January 10, 2015

If you were in elementary school in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you might remember spending hours of free time playing MS-DOS computer games. Who could forget the thrill of shooting a bear on the Oregon Trail, or chasing down that crook Carmen Sandiego?

Posted inOpinion

900 Arcade Games, Both Classic and Obscure, Now Playable Online for Free

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 3, 2014November 3, 2014

The Internet Archive, the non-profit behind the Wayback Machine and countless other digital resources, has just launched the Internet Arcade, a free online database of about 900 classic arcade games you can play in your browser.

Posted inBooks

Belief, Reason, and the Origins of the World in a Striking Series of 19th-Century Illustrations

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 28, 2014October 15, 2022

Galileo and other troublemakers aside, science and religion didn’t have such a complete falling out until the 19th century.

Posted inArt

In the Internet Archive’s Millions of Public-Domain Images, a Guide to Museum History

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 5, 2014September 8, 2014

The Internet Archive is using public domain digitization to offer an entryway into its over 500 years of historical texts already online.

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