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Internet Archive to Honor Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors with 2026 Hero Award for Preserving Local News Online

5 Oct 2026

The Internet Archive is proud to announce that the Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) will receive the 2026 Internet Archive Hero Award for their leadership in preserving

100+ Years of Student Radio History in the DLARC College Radio Collections

2 Oct 2026

Happy College Radio Day! In honor of the annual celebration of student radio (this year on October 2), we invite you to explore the college radio collections in the Internet […] The post 100+

Every Night Is Different: Ryley Walker on Preserving Live Music

29 Sep 2026

Ryley Walker says he’s flattered when people tape his live performances and post them on the Internet Archive. If he knows ahead of time, the 37-year-old singer-songwriter often puts their […]

An Update on Wayback Machine Access

15 Sep 2026

We’ve heard you: “Fix the Wayback Machine!” Here’s what’s going on. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been hit by waves of high-volume automated traffic, and we’ve put

Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New

11 Sep 2026

In 1980, Negativland released its first self-titled album with handmade covers and distributed it through a few record stores in the California Bay Area. “We thought we might sell 100 […]

Internet Archive Receives IMLS Grant to Expand Access to Local and State Government Information

10 Sep 2026

Internet Archive has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support the development of ATLAS (Access To Local And State government information), a digital

Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September

1 Sep 2026

“Universal access to all human knowledge is within our grasp. Our job is to put the best our world has to offer within the reach of our children.” —Brewster Kahle, […]

National Summit on Local News Preservation Report

1 Sep 2026

On June 17, 2026, the Internet Archive hosted the National Summit on Local News Preservation in National Harbor, Maryland. Organized through our Today’s News for Tomorrow (TNT) program with

A Computer History Time Capsule

27 Aug 2026

Once upon a time, before the Internet, computer hobbyists went to great lengths to learn about their new technology. Many of these learning opportunities were inherently social: computer classes,

Book Scanning Goes Viral…Again

26 Aug 2026

Five years after Eliza Zhang’s book-scanning video reached millions of people, the Internet Archive’s page-by-page approach to digitization is capturing attention all over again. In February

Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites

25 Aug 2026

Artists today use their websites as more than a business card– they are an online portfolio, CV, document of artistic evolution, and works of art in their own right. They […]

Archiving Democracy: How the U.S. End of Term Web Archive Preserves Government History

24 Aug 2026

Beginning in January 2025, we witnessed an unprecedented removal of material from U.S. federal websites — documents related to education, health, science, and more, gone from public view almost

It’s Never Too Early to Think About Your Legacy

20 Aug 2026

The Internet Archive has cultivated thousands of planned giving supporters over the years who have decided when making their legacy plans to include the Internet Archive in them as a […]

Service Restored from Overnight Power Outage

17 Aug 2026

Yesterday, the Internet Archive experienced a power outage that took some of our services offline and degraded others. The power outage at one of our datacenters was caused by damage […]

Registration is Now Open For Internet Archive’s Annual Celebration

17 Aug 2026

Democracy’s Library: Tools for ParticipationWednesday, October 21, 2026Internet Archive, San FranciscoREGISTER: In person | Virtual Democracy invites participation; democracies require it. At the

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

16 Aug 2026

Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a […]

Vanishing Culture Episode #6: What We’ve Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood

5 Aug 2026

What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing

Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots

4 Aug 2026

We’re joining with EFF and other civil society groups asking the Governor of New York to veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. Here’s why. News publishers have a real problem: […]

The Case for Crowdfunding at Scale: How Donors are Fundraising With Us and Creating a Path to Lasting Preservation

30 Jul 2026

Preserving humanity’s memory isn’t cheap. Servers need power, storage needs upgrading, and physical collections need scanning teams working around the clock. Leading a philanthropy department and

Vanishing Culture Episode #5: A Language Worth Saving with Peter Scholing

29 Jul 2026

Languages can vanish just as easily as books, websites, or archives—and when they do, entire ways of understanding the world can disappear with them. In the fifth episode of our […]

Author Simone O. Elias Bypasses Traditional Publishing with Open Access Release

27 Jul 2026

Sixteen-year-old Simone O. Elias has a lot to say about her generation and the way it is perceived by society. Rather than wait for a traditional publisher, the Berkeley, California, […]

Bringing Forgotten Music Back to Life with Optical Music Recognition

22 Jul 2026

Just as printed letters can be scanned and converted into digital text, emerging technology can transform sheet music into sound. A new effort is underway to use optical music recognition […]

Vanishing Culture Episode #4: Keeping African Folktales Alive with Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs