The web is disappearing 🕳️
According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.
Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive
Links in bio 🔗 to…
📖 Download & read
🛒 Purchase in print
#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #bookstagram
When the record disappears, accountability follows. 🕳️
A new piece from @wired highlights a growing threat to the Wayback Machine: major publishers restricting access to the very tool journalists rely on to hold power to account.
From tracking changes in government policy to preserving stories that would otherwise vanish, the Wayback Machine has become essential infrastructure for our shared digital culture. Reporters, researchers, and advocates use it every day to compare versions, verify claims, and surface what’s been quietly altered or erased.
Now, that work is at risk.
As outlets like The New York Times and others limit archiving—often citing unfounded concerns about AI—journalists are speaking out. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation @efforg & Fight for the Future @fightfortheftr are rallying support, alongside voices across media who know: without archives, there is no accountability.
For 30 years, the Internet Archive has worked to preserve the web as a public record, now over a trillion pages strong. But a more closed web puts that mission, and our shared history, in jeopardy.
The question isn’t just about access.
It’s about whether the internet remains a place where the past can be seen, studied, and understood.
📖 Read the story.
🔗 Link in bio.
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #Journalism #OpenWeb
Annie Rauwerda has built a career exploring Wikipedia’s weirdest corners 🌐
As the creator of Depths of Wikipedia, she reminds us: “If Wikipedia is worth anything at all, it’s because of the citations.”
Fueled by a lifelong love affair with Wikipedia and the Internet Archive, Annie celebrates the open web—and the communities that keep it alive.
Link in bio to learn more 🔗
@depthsofwikipedia@InternetArchive
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓
Cutest Couple: W3C & CSS
Structure meets style. The web’s ultimate power couple & still going strong. 💙
🔗 See more of the Class of '96 at the link in our bio.
THE MORE YOU KNOW 🌈 Parts of the web vanish every day without preservation.
Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.
Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. ➡️ Sign the petition at the link in our bio. 🔗
#WaybackMachine #Classof96
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓
Best Hair: Unofficial Spice Girls Fan Site
Before social media, fandom lived here: glitter text, tiled backgrounds & serious ‘Wannabe’ hair.
🔗 See more of the Class of '96 at the link in our bio.
THE MORE YOU KNOW 🌈 Parts of the web vanish every day without preservation.
Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.
Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. ➡️ Sign the petition at the link in our bio. 🔗
#WaybackMachine #Classof96
📢 LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES 📢
The Public Song Contest closes today!
DEADLINE
📆 FRIDAY, MAY 15 at 11:59pm PT to submit your song for the Public Song Project from @WNYC .
SUBMISSION DETAILS ⤵️
🔗 Link in bio
#PublicSongProject
If you were to travel back in time to 1996 with a 2TB thumb drive, you’d be able to fit the entire World Wide Web on it. Of course, that kind of storage didn’t exist in the ’90s, so it’s never been that simple for the Internet Archive.
The nonprofit site, which launched three decades ago this year, has a vast collection of digital resources — from live concert tapings and public domain e-books to troves of forgotten DOS games. Roughly 2 million people access the site’s resources every day.
Now, the @internetarchive is confronting AI scraping fears, antagonistic publishers, and rising storage costs that threaten the future of the open web.
Read a brief history of the storied site at the link in bio.
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰
As parts of the web disappear, journalists are defending web preservation, accountability, and access to the public record.
📖 Read Mark's letter
✍️ Add your voice in support of the Wayback Machine
Links in bio 🔗
Congrats to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM" by Harry Goodwin, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬
Dreamers and dreamlike imagery from seven 1930 films accompanied by the filmmaker’s own recording of "Dream a Little Dream of Me."
Watch the full short film. Link in bio 🔗
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay
🌈 MOROCCO (1930) gave us one of cinema’s most unforgettable moments of style, rebellion, and same-sex desire, long before queer cinema had a name. 🎩
📅 June 9
🕠 5:30 PM: Happy Hour and a Half 🍸
🕖 7:00 PM: Pre-Show + Screening + Q&A 🍿
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ Link in bio 🔗
#pre-code #SFevents
📢 “Let’s build systems that support communities,” Kahle says. “Let’s make tools for participation. Let’s build democracy’s library out of all the works that can and should be shared, so we’re all building on a common commons of information.” - Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive's digital librarian in @fastcompany .
🔗 Read the full article at the link in our bio.
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓
Class Clown: The Onion (online)
Making us laugh at the news online since 1996 & occasionally making it feel a little too real.
🔗 See more of the Class of '96 at the link in our bio.
THE MORE YOU KNOW 🌈 Parts of the web vanish every day without preservation.
Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.
Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. ➡️ Sign the petition at the link in our bio. 🔗
#WaybackMachine #Classof96 @theonion
