@archive.orgAuthors Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory has become one of the defining political challenges of the digital age. 🏛️ #VanishingCulture #memoryhole
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@archive.org@archive.org📚 Culture doesn't have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️ Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿 The paper THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY digs into why. 📖 Read or download it ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵
@archive.orgThis episode of the Future Knowledge podcast is part of our special summer series #VanishingCulture, examining how cultural knowledge, stories, and histories can disappear 🕳️ and what to do to prevent it. #VanishingCulture #podcast @hm-nde.bsky.social @laurakgibbs.bsky.social
@archive.org📖 Some folktales are preserved word for word. 🗣️ Others adapt to help communities make sense of the present. 🌍 In this Future Knowledge episode, scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs explore African storytelling and how culture is preserved. 🎧 Listen ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵
@archive.org🎞️ In January, @NPR.org covered our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, where filmmakers turned newly public 1930 works into fresh creations. 🎬 Our winners series has wrapped—a great time to revisit why the public domain fuels creativity. 🎧 Hear the full story ⤵️ www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...
@archive.orgMichael Menna and Lila Bailey, writing for the Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement, explore why vanishing culture is becoming a political crisis. #VanishingCulture #memoryhole
@archive.org🌐 Websites vanish. News archives go offline. Textbooks are withdrawn. Government reports are deleted. A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, asks what happens next. 📖 Read or download it ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵
@archive.org3️⃣/3️⃣ After Brazil was awarded the trophy permanently, it was stolen from the Brazilian Football Confederation's headquarters in 1983 and has never been recovered, making it one of sport's greatest unsolved mysteries. #WorldCup #FootballHistory #SoccerHistory #ArtDeco #PublicDomain #OpenAccess
@archive.org2️⃣/3️⃣ The Jules Rimet Cup crowned football's greatest champions from 1930 to 1970. The trophy depicts Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, holding an octagonal cup aloft.
@archive.org🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, JULES RIMET CUP (1930) 🏆⚽ 🖼️ The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Cup was designed by French sculptor Abel Lafleur. Cast in gold-plated sterling silver on a blue lapis lazuli base. See it in our collections ➡️ archive.org/details/jule... 🧵1️⃣/3️⃣👇
@archive.orgPower outage in San Francisco took archive.org offline overnight. We’re back!
@archive.orgIt takes people willing to ask new questions, share knowledge, and preserve what others overlook or reject. Palmieri explores why preserving queer memory is a community project on the #FutureKnowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture,
@archive.orgIf you don't know the words to search for, history can feel like it never existed. Brooke Palmieri explores how finding queer history requires more than institutions; it takes community knowledge and new ways of looking. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵
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,...
@archive.orgWonder how websites, books, government info & digital history are preserved? Subscribe to the Internet Archive's #EmpoweringLibraries newsletter for updates on the Wayback Machine, digital preservation, upcoming events, and the people working behind the scenes. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/07/17/k...
@archive.org🎬 Why does MOROCCO (1930) still captivate after nearly 100 years? Filmmaker & scholar Denah Johnston explores the film's enduring appeal in this excerpt from our post-screening Q&A. Watch the full discussion + much more of our gala Morocco screening event at blog.archive.org/2026/06/24/t...
@archive.org3️⃣/3️⃣ Those records are preserved in LoCALDig, the California Local Government Documents Collection at UC Berkeley, and freely available through the Internet Archive. 📚 Dig through LoCALDig on the Internet Archive ⤵️ archive.org/details/inst... #California #History #Bicentennial #UrbanPlanning
@archive.org2️⃣/3️⃣ Many of the debates shaping California today were already unfolding 50 years ago. These reports document everything from CEQA planning and BART studies to housing policy, population growth, and the fiscal pressures that helped set the stage for Proposition 13.
@archive.org🧵1️⃣/3️⃣ 🇺🇸 As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, it's worth looking back at the 1976 Bicentennial through hundreds of California local government publications preserved by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies. Learn more ⤵️ igs.berkeley.edu/news/look-ba...
@archive.org5️⃣/5️⃣ “Now, Google Summer of Code is a wonderful opportunity to connect with open-source organizations and Open Library where its work directly impacts people’s lives,” Tanishq Sangwan said. #GSOC #SummerOfCode @som-nnamani.bsky.social
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@archive.org4️⃣/5️⃣ “I built this passion and got this amazing feeling when my work was making an impact and people were receiving some value,” Tanishq Sangwan said. His work connects readers' needs with improvements that help people discover and return to Open Library.
