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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · Jun 10, 2026

🧵1/3 What do we lose when family & community cookbooks disappear? 🍲📚 Katie Livingston argues that cookbooks are more than collections of recipes. They preserve family histories, local traditions, and the everyday experiences that often go undocumented elsewhere. Read her essay "Preserving Cookbooks," part of VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/57/

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · Jun 05, 2026

Preventing the Wayback Machine from saving the news puts today’s journalism at risk of disappearing from history. 📝 Help push back. Sign the open letter calling on publishers to stop blocking web archiving 👉 https://www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders @fight@mastodon.fightforthefuture.org #InternetArchive #SaveTheArchive #Journalism #MediaTransparency #WaybackMachine

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · Jun 02, 2026

3/3 Today, games, magazines, and digital works can disappear overnight, taking decades of creative history with them. Mechner argues that archivists, libraries, and preservation networks are essential to keeping cultural memory alive. Read Mechner's essay and much more in VANISHING CULTURE. 📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/ 🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new #VanishingCulture #InternetArchive #GameHistory #DigitalPreservation @jmechner@mastodon.art

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · Jun 02, 2026

🧵1/3 What if the history of games, films, and culture disappears not because it is lost… but because no one is allowed to keep it? 🎮⚠️ Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia & pioneering video game designer, reflects on how fragile cultural memory becomes when preservation depends on luck rather than systems. Read his essay Preserving Gaming History, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/131/

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · May 22, 2026

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@manuals/116618823579369386 Please enjoy! #manuals #InternetArchive

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · May 13, 2026

🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚 📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/43/ 🕳️ #VanishingCulture #InternetArchive

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · May 11, 2026

News organizations are increasingly blocking the #WaybackMachine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, @mark@mastodon.archive.org, Director of the Wayback Machine at the #InternetArchive, explains how major newsroom staff rely on archived web history because their internal archives often miss the deeper public record. 🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/preserving-the-web-in-the-age-of-ai 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · May 08, 2026

🎉 To mark the 30th anniversary of the #InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web. Before feeds, before algorithms, before we assumed everything online would last forever, this was the era that set it all in motion: Yahoo! Quake, Hotmail, The Onion and the archivists preserving it all. Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 🎓 More 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/ #Classof96

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · May 04, 2026

VANISHING CULTURE is out now! From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online. 🌐 Websites vanish 🗞️ News archives go offline 🎮 Games become unplayable 📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadable It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️ 📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026 🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · May 01, 2026

Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️ Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history. 📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive 📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/77 🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new @maria@thelife.boats #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · Apr 29, 2026

What happens when access to culture depends on platforms that can simply remove it? 🕳️ In VANISHING CULTURE, Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, and Katie Livingston explore how licensing, corporate control, and shutdowns shape what survives in the digital record and what disappears. 🎧️ Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture 📚 Read #it free from the #InternetArchive ⤵️ 📖 Download: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026 🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new #Bookstodon

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@maphew@vmst.io · Apr 26, 2026

The Rhubarb Compendium, Dan Eisenreich's 30-year labour of love (1994–2024), with hundreds of recipes, growing guides, varieties, history and folklore, It went dark when rhubarbinfo.com lapsed and became a casino redirect. I rebuilt 221 pages from #internetarchive snapshots, every entry linking back to its original URL and Wayback timestamp. Content stays under its original CC BY-SA 3.0 US license. 🥬 https://maphew.github.io/rhubarb/ 🛠️ https://github.com/maphew/rhubarb Thank you @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org and Claude Opus 4.7 for the grunt work.

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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · Apr 25, 2026

When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️ But over 470,000 pages were already preserved. That history didn’t disappear. It was archived. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters 📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026 🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon

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@asm@mstdn.party · Apr 20, 2026

In case anyone wounders where to watch CyberSix: Some Archivist made it available somewhere easy to find... https://www.reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments/1snp69v/full_episodes_now_on_internet_archive/ https://archive.org/details/cybersix-full-episodes-1080p_202604 #CyberSix #InternetArchive #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #MediaPreservation #Archival #Series #Show

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@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org · Feb 05, 2026

Democracy? What Democracy? It's all about the old mighty cold dollar... -> "When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking. The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of the world’s biggest news outlets are blocking the archive’s access to their pages. Major publishers – including The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today – have confirmed they’re ending the Internet Archive’s access to their content. While publishers say they support the archive’s preservation mission, they argue unrestricted access creates unintended consequences, exposing journalism to AI crawlers and members of the public trying to skirt their paywalls. Yet, publishers don’t simply want to lock out AI crawlers. Rather, they want to sell their content to data-hungry tech companies. Their back catalogues of news, books and other media have become a hot commodity as data to train AI systems. https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locking-out-the-internet-archive-to-stop-ai-crawling-is-the-open-web-closing-274968 #OpenWeb #Media #InternetArchive #News #Newspapers #Journalism

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