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  📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷 Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. Courtesy of the #publicdomain.👇 https://archive.org/details/winniepooh00milna/mode/2up

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  👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s tricky treat: HÄXAN, the 1922 silent film about witchcraft, superstition and the persecution of those accused of practicing it. In this sequence, witches take flight through the night, followed by a gathering of dark rituals. This Swedish-financed Danish production was filmed in Denmark. More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/@iasocial/lists/22/spooky-season-2026 #PublicDomain #Halloween #SpookySeason #DigitalHistory

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  🏛️ Government information belongs to everyone. Government documents help us understand how our society works, investigate the past, and participate in democracy. 📚 Democracy's Library brings government publications together so they're easier to discover and use. Find something you want to understand better. Start with the record. 👇 https://archive.org/details/democracys-library #ToolsYouCanUse

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  🧅🌐 The Onion has been making the news absurd for decades. Founded as a college newspaper in 1988, The Onion launched online in 1996, bringing its unmistakably ridiculous headlines, stories & snark to the web. 30 years later, its site is still going strong & satirical as ever. Explore web history with the Wayback Machine ➡️ https://web.archive.org #TheOnion #WebHistory

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  The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. Your old books could have another life—not just on your shelf, but in the library. The web has a history. Go explore it. http://web.archive.org/ #ToolsYouCanUse

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  What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Your old books could have another life—not just on your shelf, but in the library. Scan your shelves. Save a book. https://help.archive.org/help/donate-books-app-for-ios-and-android/ #ToolsYouCanUse

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  You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. What you have might be useful to someone else, and worth preserving for the future. Upload your first item 👇 https://archive.org/upload #ToolsYouCanUse

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  Who gets to own what we create? On Educating to Be Human, host Lisa Petrides talks with Internet Archive Senior Policy Counsel Lila Bailey about the tension between knowledge as a shared cultural commons & knowledge controlled through copyright, licensing, and corporate platforms. They also examine what public knowledge infrastructure could look like, supported by libraries, schools, and civic institutions. 🎧 Listen to WHO OWNS KNOWLEDGE with Lila Bailey: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/pod...

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  🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do those go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these records are digitized at the Physical Archive tour! It's a once-a-year opportunity to witness preservation processes up close. 📆 Tues, Oct 20 🕕 6–8 PM 📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA 🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/

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  Government records are part of the public record, but digital information can be difficult to preserve, find, and use. The Internet Archive has received an IMLS grant to develop ATLAS, a national program supporting preservation and access to local and state government information. The project will train 100 government and partner institutions and build new resources for the field. Learn more 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/10/atlasimls/

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  📚 What happens when a library doesn’t just preserve knowledge, but gives people the tools to use it, build with it & participate in creating what comes next? Find out at Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation, an IN-PERSON Internet Archive event. It's our annual extravaganza with food trucks, entertainment, a presentation, and dancing in the streets. 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-...

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  📖 There’s still time to support the Internet Archive and Better World Books “For the Love of Books” campaign! 📖 Join us through October 31, 2026, by donating to the Internet Archive to support literacy and preservation for generations to come. Donate Today: https://donate.archive.org/campaign/838534/donate

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  JUST ADDED: Tonight’s Negativland concert at the Internet Archive is sold out, but you can still join us online! The livestream begins at 6:30pm PT and will only be available during the show. At the band’s request, there will be no replay. Watch live ➡️ https://youtube.com/live/qiQ39fMN-vU

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  “Fix the Wayback Machine!” We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/

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  🌐 Web archives are never complete. What happens when the gaps, biases & disappearances become part of the story? CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” is a webinar featuring Dr. Andrea Kocsis of The University of Edinburgh. On Oct. 7 at 8 AM PT, she’ll share five interactive works that make the web’s temporality & fragility visible, from link decay to disappearing online music cultures. ✍️ Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/r...

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  🧩 A math puzzle. 🚗 A solar car. 🌪️ Natural-disaster insurance. ⚡ Electricity oversupply in Kyushu. These were four very different questions put to ClimateGPT 4.3, a specialized climate model, during a recent Internet Archive tour. The results were a mix of useful answers, wrong turns & outright refusals. 📖 Learn more about the experiment ➡️ https://erasmus.ai/?p=875

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  Negativland LIVE at Internet Archive! For more than 40 years, Negativland has turned found sound, radio & mass media into provocative art. Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive brings that to life in San Francisco! 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 IN-PERSON, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/ #sfevents

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  For many artists, a website is more than a portfolio. It’s a record of a life’s work, built over decades, & something they want future generations to find. CARTA is helping preserve more than 50 artists’ websites, many by Latinx artists, so their work can survive technical failures, lost hosting & more. Learn more on our blog👇 https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/25/artistswebsites/

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  🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs brought people together to learn, trade software, share ideas & explore the rapidly changing world of personal computing. 💾 A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a remarkable time capsule of that world. These newsletters & many more for Atari, Apple II, Texas Instruments computers & other platforms are available in Internet Archive collections. 📚 More on. our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-hist...

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  The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things. You can: 🔖 Save something before it disappears. 🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed. ✍️ Improve or contribute to a collection. 🤝 Connect with people doing the work of preservation. Over the next eight weeks, we'll show you how. SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/ #ToolsYouCanUse

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  We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/

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  📖 At just 16 years old, Simone O. Elias wrote PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN. Her book explores femininity, culture, history, mental health, and the pressures shaping a generation. Elias chose to publish it as an #openaccess book, making it FREE through the Internet Archive! 🆓 Read & download: https://archive.org/details/porcelain-rage/PorcelainRage_Ack/ And Learn more about Elias, her book, and the Aug 4 #booktalk with livestream 📡 & in-person 🎟️ options at our blog:...

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  🌈 The year is 2010. 🎶 "Always" by Erasure is blasting as you mash the Z key ⌨️ in pursuit of a new high score 🏆 all while living your best sparkly robot unicorn life 🦄✨. While we can't actually time travel 🤖, ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK is still playable thanks to digital preservation & emulation via Ruffle. Flash may be gone 👋, but your favorite internet games don't have to be. 🌐 Play it today on the Internet Archive ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/robotunicornattack_flash

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  📚 Why would an established author bypass a traditional publisher for their second book? At 16, Simone O. Elias chose the open-access route for her book PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN, making her reflections on culture, identity, and modern womanhood free and available to everyone through the Internet Archive. Learn more about Elias & the book: https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/ 🧵

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  Free speech matters. So does the ability to verify what's true. Without a stable historical record, accountability becomes harder, evidence disappears, and public debate suffers. Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory is essential to democracy in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY. 📖 Read or download the paper today ⬇️ https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/ #VanishingCulture #memoryhole

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  📚 Research can uncover stories that even experts never had the chance to find. 🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklorist Laura Gibbs explains how the Internet Archive's full-text search helped her uncover dozens of versions of a folktale, including one published in an early 1900s issue of Good Housekeeping that had escaped generations of scholarship. 🎧 Listen and subscribe ⤵️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishi...

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  🎨🇺🇸 Georgia O'Keeffe's THE FLAG (1918) is a striking watercolor painted during World War I. Now in the public domain in the United States, it's free to view, download, and reuse. It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary. Learn more in our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/the-declaration-of-independence-america-at-250-and-past-centennials/ #Americanhistory #Archives

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  📚 Culture doesn’t have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️ Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿 In THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory has become one of the defining political challenges of the digital age. 🏛️ 📖 Read or download the paper ⬇️ https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/ #VanishingCulture #memoryhole

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  🌐 Websites vanish. 📰 News archives go offline. 📚 Textbooks are withdrawn. 🏛️ Government reports are deleted. What happens when the historical record starts disappearing? The Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement explore why "vanishing culture" is becoming a political crisis in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY. 📖 Read or download the paper here ⬇️ https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/ #VanishingCult...

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  🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, JULES RIMET CUP (1930) 🏆⚽ 🖼️ The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Cup was designed by French sculptor Abel Lafleur. Cast in gold-plated sterling silver on a blue lapis lazuli base, it depicts Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, holding an octagonal cup aloft. See it in our collections ➡️ https://archive.org/details/jules-rimet-cup-1930 🧵1️⃣/2️⃣👇