Internet Archive Blogs

“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, Interne...

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) ...

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, software store hangouts, electronic bulletin board systems, and user groups.

A user group or computer club was a wonderful way to get to know people in your region who were...

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 2021, a video of Internet ...

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 are valuable records of a life’s work, yet as with all technology, they are fragile and ephemeral. They can vanish overnight due to expiring domain registrations, server migrations, software obsolescence, or...