Mark Graham

@mark.bsky.social

Director, Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

@archive.orgReposted by @mark.bsky.social

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

@michael-feinberg.bsky.socialReposted by @mark.bsky.social

The United States government should not attempt to hide the truth about its past, or even worse, rewrite history, but when it does, it’s up to the citizenry to preserve the real facts. Transparency and accountability are necessary foundations for a functioning democracy.

lawfaremedia.orgThe Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores ItLast week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.
@semmiotic.bsky.socialReposted by @mark.bsky.social

“Compare any two captures of [URL] from our collection of [x] dating from [y] to [z].” This is great to know about. Now I just need to figure out what to click to do the comparison.

Mark Graham@mark.bsky.social

Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited. Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison: web.archive.org/web/diff/202... The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.

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cdc.govAutism and VaccinesAnswers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
@archive.orgReposted by @mark.bsky.social

Blocking archives risks harming the public record.

Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham explains why these concerns are unfounded.

Get the story on Techdirt 🔗
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

@mark.bsky.social #techdirt

techdirt.comPreserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
@weatherwest.bsky.socialReposted by @mark.bsky.social

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.
@himarshaj.bsky.socialReposted by @mark.bsky.social

Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!

✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.

ws-dl.blogspot.com2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code ContributorThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
@mark.bsky.social

Hi Brandon, Thank you for this. We issue 429s as part of our effort to address abusive traffic. Clearly our efforts are imperfect. Please feel free to write to [email protected] so we might follow-up with you more directly is the 429s persist for you.

@archive.orgReposted by @mark.bsky.social

Did you catch the story about the Wayback Machine on CBS News Sunday Morning? 🌞 David Pogue chatted with @brewster.kahle.org about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch: cbsnews.com/news/the-way...

cbsnews.comThe Wayback Machine, a time machine for the webBecause the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely ava...
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