New study highlighting the critical role of web archives & the The Wayback Machine in preserving web content at risk of disappearing ⬇️ Authors: Kritika garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala, Michele Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Remember Pets.com? 🐶 This dot-com boom & bust icon is now just a memory. Websites vanish, but we're dedicated to preserving their legacy. Explore the web's past with the @WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org #InternetArchive #MemoryHole #VanishingCulture

Love the @WaybackMachine? Live in San Francisco? Celebrate the preservation of digital culture at our street party on October 23. 🌐 Livestream available! 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/escaping-the… #VanishingCulture #BayAreaEvents #SFEvents #SFLocal #SanFrancisco #SFBayArea

AltaVista, launched in 1995, revolutionized search with its fast, full-web indexing. Once a leader, it changed ownership & focus before fading into history as Google rose to dominance. Explore web history with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org #TechHistory

A small amount of the folks at Internet Archive thank you for standing with us.

8 years ago, lil (library innovation lab) WS-DL Group, ODU CS & I started the local memory project (LMP) to highlight US local newspapers, TV, & radio stations I'm happy to share that William & Mary undergrad student Ian MacDonald has redeployed LMP newsresearch.lab.wm.edu/tools/local-me… to explore 14k US local media

New update from Brewster Kahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/lea…

In a guest WS-DL Group, ODU CS post, Herbert Van de Sompel (@hvdsompl) discusses the recent move to register "doi:" as a URI scheme with IANA. TL;DR: It's likely more about branding than actual utility. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024-1…

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort ⬇️ eotarchive.org

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive End of Term Archive ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/upd…

Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's The Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

❓APIs ❓Browser extensions ❓Apps ‼️ Yes, those, too: blog.archive.org/2025/03/13/wan…

Sawood Alam (Internet Archive) rounds out the Advocacy & User Engagement session @ #iipcWAC25 with "Lost, but Preserved-A #WebArchiving Perspective on the Ephemeral Web" w/ various assessments of linkrot, depending on which src you consult. Rarely did they mention web archives.

Thank you everyone for coming to my tenure party! Special thanks to Dr. Lee Giles who drove 8 hours to attend my party (and 8 hours back)! Thank you Dr. Michael Nelson to come and help me pick a wonderful restaurant! Sorry if I missed anyone in the group photo. WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

The @InternetArchive was honored with the 2024 Project Uil award for its impact on Dutch-language Wikipedia! @Brewster_Kahle accepted the award, highlighting how the archive has fixed 22M+ broken links & enhanced the credibility of Wikipedia. More ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/04/15/bre…

Goodbye Skype! 📞💬 It transformed global communication in the 2000s, bringing free internet calls to millions. Now it's just another memory, its website preserved & accessible via the @WaybackMachine. Explore Skype’s web history ➡️ web.archive.org/web/2003120202… #DigitalHistory

Excited to share that I’ve been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor🤩 I’ll be working with @InternetArchive/TV News Archive this summer, mentored by Sawood Alam😇 summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/… #GSoC2025, Mark Graham, WS-DL Group, ODU CS, Michele Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Alexander C. Nwala

Day 3 at #WebSci2025 Excited to present my research "Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web" today WebSciConf Rutgers University 📄DOI: doi.org/10.1145/371786… Slides: slideshare.net/slideshow/not-… Michele Weigle Michael L. Nelson Sawood Alam WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

What does the web mean to you? As we celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine, we want to hear your story. Why does preserving the web matter to you? 📝 Share your story now: forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe2p… #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine