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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.

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3️⃣/5️⃣ “I really care about books being accessible to people,” Nnamani said. “In Nigeria, we have limited access to physical libraries, so Open Library is something that matters. It gives everyone the opportunity to come and read any kind of book and gain insights.”

Portrait of Chisom Nnamani, wearing a yellow-green top.
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2️⃣/5️⃣ Tanishq Sangwan is helping Open Library understand where readers encounter barriers and improve the path from discovery to reading. Chisom Nnamani is helping make books easier to discover by improving Open Library’s genre, subject, and format data.

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📚 Millions of books are on Open Library. The challenge? Helping readers find the ones that matter. Google Summer of Code contributors Tanishq Sangwan & Chisom Nnamani are improving discovery, recommendations, and book data to help readers worldwide. blog.archive.org/2026/07/15/g... 🧵1️⃣/5️⃣

Open Library and Google Summer of Code promotional graphic. The Open Library logo appears at the top. Below are side-by-side portraits of Chisom Nnamani, wearing a yellow-green top, and Tanishq Sangwan, wearing glasses and an orange shirt. The Google Summer of Code logo and wordmark appear at the bottom.
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Personal collections, word of mouth, and everyday acts of preservation have helped keep these stories alive. On the #FutureKnowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Palmieri explores the community effort behind preserving queer memory.

futureknowledge.transistor.fmFuture Knowledge | Vanishing Culture #3: Saving Queer Memory with Brooke PalmieriQueer history has often been overlooked, erased, or excluded from traditional archives. In the third episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks with writer,...
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🗂️ History isn't just what institutions preserve. It's also what communities save. Brooke Palmieri explains much of queer history survives because individuals & communities recognized its value when larger institutions didn't. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

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CONGRATS AGAIN to “RHAPSODY, REIMAGINED” by Andrea Hale, FIRST PLACE 🥇 in the Internet Archive's 2026 #PublicDomain Remix Contest. A dazzling reimagining of King of Jazz (1930) set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. An aesthetic triumph. Watch it here ➡️ archive.org/details/rhap... #PublicDomainDay

Frame from Andrea Hale's 1st place film, "Rhapsody, Reimagined," featuring a man with a handlebar mustache. Behind him, and visible through his open mouth, are kaleidoscopic, repeated images from the 1930 film King of Jazz.
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Current Affairs Magazine talks with Internet Archive’s Mark Graham & Chris Freeland on these and other challenges facing the creation and preservation of news and culture. @archive.org

Promotional graphic for the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Mark Graham and Chris Freeland, both wearing glasses, are pictured against a background of burning books. The Current Affairs masthead appears at the top in white serif type on black.
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More & more of our culture now exists only in digital form … but libraries can’t preserve what they don’t own. As books 📚, music 🎵, film 🎞️, and news 📰 shift from ownership to licensing, long-term access is becoming harder to guarantee. 🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil... 🧵⬇️

Current Affairs quote card with black masthead at top reading "CURRENT AFFAIRS / A Magazine of Politics and Culture." Below, large serif text reads: "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom in pink.Current Affairs quote card with black masthead at top reading "CURRENT AFFAIRS / A Magazine of Politics and Culture." Below, Chris Freeland is quoted in large serif text that reads: "Yes, the news used to be a public good. It has a lot of protections in the Constitution. Now it's treated as just another commodity." Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom in pink.Current Affairs quote card. Mark Graham is quoted in large serif text that reads: "So social media platforms replace the prior primary news sites as destinations, and now AI is quickly becoming an important source, and I think in the near term, the dominant way that we're going to be informed. And so, if these AI systems are only getting their material from these non-paywalled sites that are publicly available, a significant percentage of that material will be produced by authoritarian governments, outright mis- and disinformation, produced by corporate interests that have a particular and strongly biased perspective, hyperpartisan, and it's not going to provide us with a depth and a breadth of an understanding of the balance of perspectives that is required for us to be able to have a true understanding of the world that we live in." Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom.Current Affairs quote card. Chris Freeland is quoted in large serif text that reads: "Yes, the news used to be a public good. It has a lot of protections in the Constitution. Now it's treated as just another commodity." Current Affairs wordmark appears at the bottom in pink.
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🍲 A cookbook isn't just recipes. It's handwritten notes, grease stains, clippings, and memories. Katie Livingston examines why preserving everyday culture matters, on the #FutureKnowledge podcast special #VanishingCulture series. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

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Preserved in the Prelinger Archives, this film follows the same family over ten years, from 1958 to 1968. Preserving home movies preserves the everyday lives that so often go undocumented. #HomeMovies #FilmPreservation #PrelingerArchives @footage.bsky.social

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☀️ Summers fade. Home movies help them live on. Time warp back to a 1958 backyard pool party where the whole family's having summer fun. 🏊‍♀️ 👙🩲 Moments like these weren't meant for history books, yet they speak to us across time. 🎞️ Watch the full film ⤵️ archive.org/details/2008... 🧵👇

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⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco. WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was just a tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, to cash in on the tournament at over 4× the original price. 💸 Its awfulness has been saved for posterity ⤵️ archive.org/search?tab=a...

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22 archival works, Coco Chanel costumes, & perfectly pitched narration. Jen Zhao is a Canadian filmmaker, producer, & actor interested in autofictional works. Aaron Sharp is a screenwriter & actor from Los Angeles. He has an MFA from UCLA TFT. #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

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CONGRATS AGAIN to “BATTLE LINES” by Jen Zhao & Aaron Sharp 🥈 SECOND PLACE winner in the 2026 Internet Archive Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎬 Doc(mock)umentary tracking the rivalry between Piet Mondrian & Theo van Doesburg over the diagonal line. Full film ⤵️ archive.org/details/2026...

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Drawn by their admiration for Soviet cinema, Hollywood’s ultimate power couple visited Moscow in 1926, greeted by Beatlemania-level crowds 🎬🌍 At Mezhrapom Studios, Pickford planted a playful kiss on actor Igor Ilyinski, inspiring Sergei Komarov’s comedic film the following year. #silentfilm

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106 years ago today, Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks, arrived in the Soviet Union. Their global fame inspired "A Kiss for Mary Pickford "(1927), sparked by a playful, moment during their Moscow visit. Check out this archive of Pickford & Fairbanks items ⤵️ archive.org/details/%40i... #OTD

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2/2 Handwritten notes, magazine clippings, and adjustments to favorite dishes...none of that survives when food culture is reduced to content on someone else’s platform.

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🧵 Family cookbooks contain more than recipes. They preserve history. 📖 On the #FutureKnowledge #podcast special #VanishingCulture series, Katie Livingston explains why everyday artifacts matter. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

futureknowledge.transistor.fmFuture Knowledge | Vanishing Culture #2: The Stories Hidden in Cookbooks with Katie LivingstonWhy preserve a cookbook? In the second episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks with Katie Livingston, a doctoral researcher at Stanford University who st...
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🌐 The web changes daily. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️ 38% of URLs that existed 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive's @mark.bsky.social & Chris Freeland on why preserving the web matters, via @currentaffairs.bsky.social. 🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil...

Promotional graphic for the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Mark Graham and Chris Freeland, both wearing glasses, are pictured against a background of burning books. The Current Affairs masthead appears at the top in white serif type on black.White card with centered black serif text reading: "From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive's Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it." The Current Affairs name appears below in pink, followed by a decorative flourish.Opening paragraph of the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Large decorative W begins the text, which describes how websites go dark, governments purge public records, and streaming platforms remove films and music. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is introduced as a tool preserving snapshots of a constantly rewritten web.
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🔦 We turn the Public Domain Spotlight on ALWAYS (1925) 🎼 Written by Irving Berlin, it became one of the most beloved love songs ever. This scene from the 1928 film Lonesome used classic just a few years after it debuted. See into the sheet music on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/alwa...

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