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Internet Archive is now an official US government document library

The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library ...

The Open Internet Is Closed for Business

This week, two of our most essential online institutions reckoned with major shifts in the operation and governance of the ...
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Internet Archive Loses Copyright Lawsuit: What to Know | TIME

The Internet Archive, which creates e-books by scanning print versions, includes 3.6 million copyrighted books in its online database, according to the court opinion.
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Internet Archive has been fighting for 25 years to keep what’s on the ...

This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving the internet through the Wayback Machine, which allows users to see how websites looked in the past.
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The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers - The New York Times

The Internet Archive is best known for the Wayback Machine, which allows access to web pages of the past. Mr. Kahle is a longtime fixture in digital information circles, an enthusiast whose zeal ...
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These 6 Websites Used to Dominate the Internet, Now You Can Only See Archived Versions

While AltaVista helped us explore the web, GeoCities let us build our own little corners of it, thanks to founders David ...

My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and ...

It's About to Get Harder to Read Old Reddit Threads, and You Can Blame AI

Reddit will now block the Internet Archive from indexing most of the site, blaming AI companies for scraping Reddit archives to get around paying for training data.