#WaybackMachine

Internet Archive

@archive.org

20 minutes ago

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" and "OSCARS.ORG". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Oscars website from December 29th, 1996, alongside one from March 8, 2026.

🎬 The #Oscars celebrate movie history, but their website has a history too.

Take a trip back to the early web with this vintage capture of oscars․org, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.

See how Hollywood’s biggest night's site appeared online 30 years ago ⤵️
web.archive.org/web/19961229...

The Egalitarian Who Refuses to Give Up

@theegalitarian.bsky.social

1 day ago

umm. archive.org #WaybackMachine

petersuber

@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

3 days ago

Update. While the #ThomsonReuters employee letter is not yet public, #Poynter quotes from it: "The detrimental actions of #ICE, and the #DHS’s lack of oversight and direct falsehoods regarding the situation in #Minnesota and other cities, makes us question if our investigative products and […]

Lee Sims

@leesimsmusic.bsky.social

5 days ago

The #March2026 #WayBackMachine is a celebration of "Wyoming Wind" which has been voted as the Independent Music Network 2025 Country Song of the Year!
Tune In to www.leesims.com/intro for the full video, available on the #LeeSimsCountry Wayback Machine website page in #March2026 only.

#CountrySky

SparkyLanders

@sparkyl.bsky.social

1 week ago

Fun picture: Men in purple robes carrying torches cross the bridge to the medical school castle. Ca. 1456

Worry ye not! #BrainWormBobby has found the #WaybackMachine and has sent Dr. Oz back in time to one of the best medieval medical schools. Potions, spells, surgeries, and other things from back then will be brought here.

What's the copay for my leg amputation?
Four goats, a black cow, and a chicken.

Stéphane De Caneva

@stephane-decaneva.bsky.social

1 week ago

#WaybackMachine "Medusa is dreaming", illustration réalisée en 2016 pour l'artbook collectif "Kirby & Me" #handmade #comics #comicbook #ink #draw #fantasticfour #dessin #marvel #comicbookartist #kirby #inhumans

MonriaTitans

@monriatitans.bsky.social

1 week ago

archive.org ⯆ #WaybackMachine

Karyx Dragon

@karyx.rocks

1 week ago

Just thought I'd add some tags to this to see if I can get this any traction. #digital_hoarding #software_archaeology #linkrot #livejournal #moodtheme #sapphire_heaven #internet_history #waybackmachine #internetarchive

_GreyWolf

@underscoregreywolf.bsky.social

1 week ago

Question to you internet archaeologists and old neck beards out there:

Can anyone tell me what skyweyr[.]com was originally? I stumbled upon this domain and it was used in valid contexts in 1998, but the first snapshot by the #WaybackMachine is already a redirect to a porn page.

Internet Archive

@archive.org

1 week ago

📽️📺 Named for a classic #StarTrek torture device, The Agony Booth was a cult site for brutally honest movie & TV reviews.

Running from the early 2000s until 2022, it chronicled pop culture pain for a generation.

Revisit web history with the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
web.archive.org

#WebNostalgia

Nadeeta

@nadeeta.bsky.social

1 week ago

i miss the way old youtube looked. i wish we could sign in, cause i wish to see videos that are no longer on youtube as well as see groups on youtube, as I've made a few. groups are no longer on youtube so would be nice to see them. sadly that's not how the wayback machine works but still, lol.

#oldyoutube #waybackmachine #nostalgia #memories #early00s

Lee Sims

@leesimsmusic.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

The #March2026 #WayBackMachine is a celebration of "Wyoming Wind," voted as the Independent Music Network 2025 Country Song of the Year!
Tune In to www.leesims.com/intro for the full video, available on the Lee Sims website in March only.

The Egalitarian Who Refuses to Give Up

@theegalitarian.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

@archive.org #WaybackMachine!

c3974

@c3974.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

GitHub - c3974/wayback-gap-detector: Wayback Gap Detector: CLI tool to find unarchived URLs using Wayback Machine CDX API Wayback Gap Detector: CLI tool to find unarchived URLs using Wayback Machine CDX API - c3974/wayback-gap-detector

大量のURLがアーカイブ済みかどうかをWayback MachineのCDX APIを用いて一気にチェックするツールが完成したので公開
github.com/c3974/waybac...
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

Carole King

@carolekingofficial.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

16 year old Carole King signed to ABC
Paramount Records in 1958 Photo:
Carole King Family Archives.
#caroleking #waybackmachine

Amber Howe

@amberhowepi.com

2 weeks ago

The #WayBackMachine is a great investigation tool.

Gaby Wald

@gabywald.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

"Internet Archive et sa Wayback Machine sont en danger à cause de l’IA"

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Wikipedia #IAGen #GenAI (intégration plutôt que référencement, dommageable) ...

www.01net.com/actualites/l...

Lee Sims

@leesimsmusic.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

The #February2026 #WayBackMachine cranks up a live cover of #MerleHaggard’s “Swingin’ Doors,” recorded in 2018 at Lulus Inn in Watkins, CO.
Tune In to www.leesims.com/intro for the full video available only in Feb 2026.

#SwingingDoors #LiveMusicVideo #LeeSimsCountry #HonkyTonk#CountrySky #MusicSky

v_i_o_l_a

@v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

ways of working with the Wayback Machine - studio and book talk in Amsterdam Last week I gave a book talk on Public Data Cultures and co-organised a Wayback studio with the Internet Archive Europe.

"ways of working with the Wayback Machine - studio and book talk in Amsterdam"
https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/18/wayback-amsterdam
#WaybackMachine
via [https://inkdroid.org/2026/02/22/bookmarks/]

Mia Blais-Côté (MiaQc)

@miaqc.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Vincent Belgab What can I tell you about me? Hmm… Thinking *Process Failed – Brain Module Overheating* Yo! I’m Vincent — student by day, AI music wizard by night. I make music when I’m not buried in university chao...

Via the #waybackmachine
web.archive.org/web/20260103...

Internet Archive

@archive.org

3 weeks ago

Promotional slide captioned “Ways of Working with the Wayback Machine, 9 February 2026, Internet Archive HQ,” with Internet Archive Europe and Wayback Machine logos at the top. The slide includes a photo of about ten adults seated in a bright room with large windows and wooden floors, arranged in a casual circle discussion. To the right is a graphic of a magnifying glass over a document icon.

🧵 Curious how researchers, journalists, and artists dig into the web’s past? 🌐

WAYS OF WORKING WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE shows how the #WaybackMachine opens up a world of discovery and creativity.

Learn more ⤵️
www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w...

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#WebArchives #DigitalResearch

Peter Suber

@petersuber.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Preserving 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…

But are #publishers right to worry that #AI cos can freely scrape the #WaybackMachine to train their tools? No, says #MarkGraham, its director.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, & monitoring to prevent abusive access."

petersuber

@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

Update. But are publishers right to worry that #AI companies can freely scrape the #WaybackMachine in order to train their tools? No. So says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-th...

"The Wayback […]

Jonas R. (er/ihm)

@jonasjrichter.mastodon.pnpde.social.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

screenshot from part of the calendar with dates for archived page versions, the popup for a date giving the message "Hrm. Fail with status: 503"

Does anybody else currently have problems accessing archived web pages via the Wayback Machine?@internetarchive

#WaybackMachine #InternetArchive

Bagolina

@bagolina.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

À lire aussi sur la question de l'#IA et la #waybackmachine Mark Graham
Generative #AI presents real challenges in today’s information ecosystem. But preserving the time-honored role of #libraries and #archives in society has never been more important. We’ve worked alongside news organizations […]

Bagolina

@bagolina.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

#WaybackMachine Director Pushes Back on AI Scraping Fears Driving Archive Blocks
blog.archive.org/2026/02/18/wayback-machi...
As reported by Nieman Lab last month, some major media organizations—including The #NewYorkTimes, #TheGuardian, and #Reddit—have started […]

Interesting Links

@interesting.bookmarks.kvibber.com.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

**Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.**
Regarding various news sites blocking the Internet Archive because someone, somewhere, might be using it to train AI.
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers." "When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses […]

Internet Archive

@archive.org

3 weeks ago

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" and "OLYMPICS.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Olympincs website from February 9th, 2006, alongside one from February 9, 2026, both showing pages about the opening ceremony.

🇮🇹 Italy hosted the Winter Games in 2006 and they’re carving fresh tracks in the show again, right now, in 2026 ❄️⛷️⛸️

Official sites get replaced, but you can still revisit the originals & compare past & present on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
web.archive.org

#Olympics #WinterOlympics #InternetHistory

Lee Sims

@leesimsmusic.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

The #February2026 #WayBackMachine cranks up a live cover of Merle Haggard’s “Swingin’ Doors,” recorded in 2018 at Lulus Inn in Watkins, Colorado.
Tune In to www.leesims.com/intro for the full video, available only in February 2026.
#SwingingDoors #MerleHaggard #LiveMusicVideo #LeeSimsCountry

Winbuzzer

@winbuzzer.com

3 weeks ago

winbuzzer.com/2026/02/15/p...

Publishers Block Internet Archive Over AI Scraping Fears

#AI #WaybackMachine #InternetArchive #Google #Reddit #OpenAI #BigTech #TheNewYorkTimes #NewsPublishers #AIScraping #OpenWeb #CommonCrawl #PerplexityAI #Media