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02.08.2025 13:07 โ ๐ 174 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Our #livestream runs 24/7. But when the microfiche scanning team takes a well-earned break, the feed keeps rolling, with #lofi music accompanying home movies, silent films & other gems from the Internet Archive.
Here's a sample.
Tune in โก๏ธ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
Internet Archive has purchased 500+ titles offered by BRIET. Browse the collection now: archive.org/details/brie...
Log in to your archive.org account to borrow the books. We loan them to one user at a time.
Photo grid of five headshots of members of Briet's team. Photos are, clockwise from top left: Flaming Hydra collective's Maria Bustillos, Aboard co-founder Paul Ford, developer Matthew McVickar, developer Jacob Ford, and Sludge founder David Moore.
Worried about the move from libraries owning books to just renting temporary access to eBooks? @MariaBustillos.com & the Brick House team have launched BRIET, inviting publishers to sell, not license, eBooks to libraries!
More โคต๏ธ
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
@ftrain.bsky.social
"We are shifting to a model where [libraries] are basically seeing their collections disappear. Like Snapchat stories.โ โ Caroline De Cock
Thatโs why @ifla.org endorsed the Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions.
Details from @internetarchive.eu โคต๏ธ
www.internetarchive.eu/2025/07/30/
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine, Then and Now." Below are two webpage-type windows, each titled "Your Nomination Here" and each containing three large question marks.
As the Wayback Machine nears 1 trillion archived web pages this October, we're still looking for standout sites to feature.
Reply with your favorite pages to nominate them for the spotlight!
๐ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine #internetarchive
The @archive.org Europe aims to defend the rights of memory institutions to protect public access to knowledge through their campaign, โOur Future Memory.โ Weโre proud to endorse their Statement on Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online.
Read it here: ourfuturememory.org
Title screen for Where In The World Is That #@*% Owlโฝ game.
๐ WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THAT #@*% OWL!? ๐ฆ An ornery owl has taken your favorite game, and you have to track him down! Sleuth out the owl's next location through clues & catch that surly strigiformes.
Get it for Windows โก๏ธ 74ls373.itch.io/where-is-owl
Title screen for Postie game.
๐ POSTIE. You've joined the Royal Mail. It's your duty to deliver. Your life is on the line. Drive to the target destination, locate the mailbag, & deliver to all of the mailboxes.
Play in-browser โก๏ธ darobyn.itch.io/postie
Logo for FileBurning game.
FILE BURNING. Your computer is burning! What will you keep? What will you save?
Made in a week.
NOTE: contains some light mature humor. Call it PG13?
Get it for Windows โก๏ธhttps://strangerside.itch.io/fileburning
Title for Copy On Write game.
๐ COPY_ON_WRITE is a 3D platformer with a focus on fun movement. Move through a big city-like level, shoot birds, collect discs & connect to the internet through dial-up!
Play in-browser or download it (Win, Linux, Mac) โก๏ธ pizzart.itch.io/copy-on-write
A kangaroo-headed human holding a giant CD. Stylized text reads Discmaster MMXXV.
๐ฎ๐ฟ Last week we presented the winners of the 2025 DiscMaster Game Jam which won in two categories. Now we present the single-category winners, beginning with the SPELUNKER category, for games using 100% DiscMaster assets. Presented in alphabetical orderโฆ
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Screenshot of the California Local Government Documents Collection from the Institute of Governmental Studies Library on the Internet Archive
๐ Itโs just one of the historical treasures digitized by UC Berkeleyโs Institute of Governmental Studies Library, making over 5,000 California government docs now preserved & made public.
Explore the collection โฌ๏ธ
archive.org/details/igsc...
Front cover of the booklet, Men, Money and Mud, The Story of San Francisco International Airport, by William Flynn, 1954.
Front cover of a program reproduced in the booklet, Men, Money and Mud, The Story of San Francisco International Airport, by William Flynn, 1954. Photos feature an aerial view of the airport terminal, as well as images of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, and a plane undergoing engine service.
๐ง How do you build an #airportโฆon a bay?
1954's MEN, MONEY & MUD uncovers the bold (& muddy) origins of #SFO, from political wrangling to landfill engineering. Digitized by UC Berkeleyโs Institute of Governmental Studies Library.
Read it here โฌ๏ธ
archive.org/details/C124...
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Podcast cover for Episode #6 of "Future Knowledge" titled "Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions." The design features a portrait of a woman with glasses and wavy blonde hair (likely Lila Bailey), along with collage-style imagery including a vintage computer labeled "NEW," a classical statue head, modernist buildings, and a stylized observation tower. Guests listed are Lila Bailey, Brewster Kahle, Caroline de Cock, Adam Sofronijeviฤ, Stephen Wyber, Raymond Hernandez, and Peter Scholing. Bold typography and retro-futuristic visuals create a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.
What rights do libraries & archives need to preserve our shared cultural heritage in the digital age? We explore the Four Digital Rights statement with global librarians, incl. Stephen Wyber of @ifla.org.
๐ง futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/fou...
Co-hosted with @authorsalliance.bsky.social
And why does this matter? โคต๏ธ
theweek.com/culture-life...
๐ข Big news from @internetarchive.eu:
๐ @ifla.org has signed the Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions, asserting that in the digital age, libraries, archives & museums must be able to:
๐ฅ Collect
๐ก๏ธ Preserve
๐ Provide Access
๐ค Cooperate
Learn more ๐ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/07/30/s...
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There's still time to join today's DWeb Virtual Meetup on tools to build peer-to-peer power.
๐ TODAY, July 30
๐ at 10am PT / ๐ 1pm ET / ๐ 19 CET
๐๏ธ Free & online โคต๏ธ
www.eventbrite.com/e/1510991800...
@GetDWeb.net #DecentralizedWeb #DWeb
Join us and @archive.org for a conversation with librarians James Jacobs and Jim Jacobs about their book, Preserving Government Information, on how libraries and research organizations safeguard public information in the digital age.
8/28, 1pm ET / 10am PT
www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/29/b...
Hi ๐ Librarian at the Internet Archive here.
Last weekโs announcement that @archive.org is now a Federal Depository Library sparked some great questionsโso we put together a new FAQ to explain what this means (and what it doesnโt). ๐ help.archive.org/help/federal...
Rise & scan! โ๏ธโ
Our first shift is live nowโwatch microfiche become searchable history, backed by #lofi beats from the #InternetArchive.
๐ก www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#LiveNow #Preservation #LiveStream
Indeed. ๐ archive.org/details/toml...
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Image promoting an event. Features DWeb logo, a stylized image of the night sky with constellations, and headshots of speakers Ksenia Ermoshina, Brendan "B5" O'Brien, Ana Jamborcic, and Johann Michalove. Text reads: Decentralized Tech to Resist Authoritarianism, lightning talks, July 30, 10 am PT, virtual.
What tech can people use right now to organize?
Find out at this week's DWeb Virtual Meetup.
Presentations, demos, & talk on tools for mutual power
๐
Wed, July 30
๐ 10 AM PT / 1PM ET / 19 CET
๐ ONLINE
๐๏ธ www.eventbrite.com/e/1510991800...
@GETDWeb.net
RIP Tom Lehrer - the day he announced his items were public domain on a website, we mirrored it. Thank you for your service
archive.org/details/toml...
Iโve had this on a bunch lately. ๐โจ
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Our scanners sleep. ๐ด The stream doesnโt stop. ๐ก
Outside scanning hours (MonโFri, 7:30 AMโmidnight PT / GMT+8), our #livestream rolls on with historic footage, NASA photos & slices of everyday life from the #InternetArchive.
๐ Watch anytime โก๏ธ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
Join us at our next DWeb Virtual Meetupโ
Distributed Tech to Resist Authoritarianism, Wed July 30 10am PT / 1pm ET / 19 CET
Featuring decentralized tech projects that enable communities to self-organize for mutualistic, peer-to-peer power.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...
Trophy Phishing title screen
๐๐ TROPHY PHISHING. Cruise around the cyber sea & fish for over 200,000 models from the Discmaster archive! Preserve the ones you like on a pedestal on your boat, release the ones you don't care for. Marvel at all this stuff people made!
Phish online! โก๏ธ hireddivas.itch.io/trophy-phish...
Pillars of Babel title screen
๐๐ PILLARS OF BABEL. The GREAT FLOOD is here, and the world is being consumed by its consuming foam and wash. Only the TOWER remains. Climb the tower of BABEL. Face wretched ANGELS.
Retain your VOICE.
Play it in-browser โก๏ธ niosis.itch.io/babel
๐๐ DREAM NO MORE. The workings of the Dream Machine are unknown to all. An interactive monologue from a dream architect in the distant future. You can choose to wake up or just go with the flow of the dream.
Play it in-browser โก๏ธ tchaikovskyed.itch.io/dream-no-more
