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🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free:

1. gutenberg .org
2. standardebooks .org
3. manybooks .net
4. openlibrary .org
5. bookboon .com
6. freecomputerbooks .com
7. internetarchive .org
8. digilibraries .com
9. librivox .org

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Books

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Big update to GifCities, our GeoCities GIF search engine! 🎉
Now with semantic search, size filtering, and GifGrams to share.

Explore & share vintage web fun ➡️ gifcities.org

#GifCities #InternetArchive #WebHistory #GIFs

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Books

“RAISE HELL!” ✊ Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos.bsky.social) calls on writers & readers to defend libraries & demand ebook ownership, not rentals. Attacks on libraries are attacks on knowledge itself. 📚

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/lu8jK_27vF0

#LibraryAdvocacy #DigitalRights #InternetArchive

Welcome to the public domain, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the surrealist short from Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí that shocked cinema with dream logic, stark imagery & one gruesome eyeball.

More. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomain #InternetArchive

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.

Collections growing at 150TBytes/day

@internetarchive

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Latest update (Oct 15, 2:20pm PT) from @brewster.kahle.org : "Wayback Machine running strong (yippie!).

Still working to bring archive.org items & other services online safely.

@internetarchive team spirits high, but tired."

📣 Librarians! Attending #ALAAC25? Stop by booth #2108 & snag a Wayback Machine sticker!

See you there! #LetReadersRead #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

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How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web.

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU

#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek

Mark Graham (@mark.bsky.social), director of the #WaybackMachine, explains how the Wayback Machine archives over half a billion pages daily to ensure vital information remains accessible.

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/ETpNMXeiR7c

#InternetArchive #DigitalHistory #Preservation

Welcome to the public domain, HELL’S BELLS (1929). If you ❤️ THE SKELETON DANCE, you’ll 💕 this Silly Symphony’s animated underworld #PublicDomainDaye#InternetArchiveky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">of musical devils & demons. 🎞️🎶🔥

Learn more. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive <a href="/hashtag/Disney" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Disney

📚 LibriVox brings books to life through voice. For 20 years, volunteers have turned #PublicDomain texts into free audiobooks—no paywalls, no restrictions.

🎧️ Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/03/10/p...

@gutenberg.org #InternetArchive #Audiobooks #libsky

Flash games, early social media, and forgotten sites. Amandari Karaca explores how the internet of her childhood vanished & how efforts like the Wayback Machine work to bring it back.

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/9na8AMogfuQ

#MemoryHole #Preservation #InternetArchive

☀️ We’re back at it: scanning microfiche live at the #InternetArchive.

Tune in & join us as we preserve history one frame at a time ⤵️
📡 www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

#MondayMotivation #DigitalPreservation #InternetArchive #GoodMorning

Latest update from @brewster.kahle.org: “@waybackmachine volume is back to normal: 1,500 requests per second.

Sorry we don't have other services yet.  (Your good wishes have helped a good team @internetarchive )

more as it happens.”

Welcome to the public domain, LAMBCHOPS (1929), a sound short starring George Burns & Gracie Allen performing their iconic vaudeville routine. 🎞️ 🎭🤣

Learn more. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive

Welcome to the public domain, THE HOLLYWOOD REVUE (1929), which introduced the 🌎️ to the song Singin’ in the Rain & has scenes in 2-strip Technicolor! 🎶☔ Check out the #BusterKeaton cameo!

Learn more. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

#InternetArchive #Dead Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy WI (7/18/89). 107k views 😲.

“Libraries are under attack,” said Brewster Kahle. At our Escaping the Memory Hole event, he made a passionate call to action for defending digital libraries amid cyberattacks, lawsuits, & censorship. 📚💿 🎞️📼🏛️

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/_L1VP8klL_g

#MemoryHole #Preservation #InternetArchive

Victorian ingenuity in every loop! 🧶 The Second Book of "Hows" (1900) offers knitting guidance for the home. Its photos & techniques are both timeless & telling of its era.

➡️ https://archive.org/details/krl00402941

#Knitting #VintageKnitting #HistoricKnitting #Needlework #InternetArchive