It comes from a loose coalition of #archivists & #librarians, who are standing athwart #history & yelling “Save!” They belong to organizations such as the #InternetArchive, which co-created a project called the End of Term Web Archive to back up the federal web in 2008; the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, or #edgi; & #libraries at major #universities such as #MIT & the University of #Michigan.
The erasure of this Black #MedalOfHonor recipient is another example of what I'm helping to document on @wikipedia with the help of the @internetarchive.
Listened to a presentation what the #internetarchive is up to these days, such as archiving all the deleted US government pages on climate, inclusion, tolerance etc etc and making it available easily in context to people.
IMHO it’s just a matter of time until it will be in the cross hairs of the current US administration.
It deserves your support.
@Rocket @internetarchive There are extensions to automate it so that every single page you visit is automatically saved if it hasn't been saved in the last 30 days.
I use the Internet Archive Saver, which works on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, etc
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/391088-internet-archive-saver/code
Music labels will regret coming for the #InternetArchive, sound historian says - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/ " Labels push to spike cost of Internet Archive fight over old 78s. " #copyright
I just archived this web page on the #InternetArchive. I plan on doing that with every US government page that I come across with useful information!
#OrganicPhotovoltaics Research
"The benefits promised by #OPV #SolarCells include:
Low-cost manufacturing: Soluble organic molecules enable roll-to-roll processing techniques and allow for low-cost manufacturing.
Abundant materials: The wide abundance of building-block materials may reduce supply and price constraints.
Flexible substrates: The ability to be applied to flexible substrates permits a wide variety of uses."
https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/organic-photovoltaics-research
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jhrg9
#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #RenewablesNow
SparkFun were great at keeping all of the product details for their retired products on their website. But that's all gone with the redesign.
If you've got some old SparkFun kit, you're going to be relying on the Internet Archive a lot now.
"Home movies [...] ancestors of the videos we shot on camcorders and now capture on cell phones. We might think of each home movie as a pixel in a giant collective documentary spanning a hundred years, endless films picturing family, friends, travels, rituals and celebrations."
https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/vanishing-culture-no-film-left-unscanned/
Update. "EDGI Relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker"
https://envirodatagov.org/press-release-edgi-relaunches-federal-environmental-web-tracker/
"In response to the #Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (#EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker…The… Tracker makes records of significant changes to federal environmental websites publicly available in a searchable database…Since the first Trump administration, EDGI has monitored thousands of federal environmental webpages. Partners at the #InternetArchive download these webpages every day, and EDGI’s #OpenSource software compares versions of these webpages to identify differences."
Update. "Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump"
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/28/internet_archive_trump_admin_data_purge
"Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second #Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the #InternetArchive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources."
Update. "How the Wayback Machine is preserving outdated government websites."
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-the-wayback-machine-is-preserving-outdated-government-websites/
"The #WaybackMachine is helping preserve the record of government websites before they were changed by the TTrump administration. CBS News Confirmed's Rhona Tarrant reports."
In today’s post on @medium, I describe how the @internetarchive and @wikipedia are preserving a record of the changes made by the #Trump administration.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
@hacks4pancakes
> The few properly recognized women and black scientists are quickly having their biographies wiped from US records and institutions. Please maintain a record of them
This is where the @internetarchive and their Wayback Machine really shows its value. Presumably they've been taking snapshots of all government websites for years, so we can compare versions from BOS (Before Orange Stalin) with those from DOS (During Orange Stalin).
Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday (TODAY), meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.
Join the Internet Archive and the Library Innovation Lab on Feb. 13, 3pm Eastern for a special event exploring the terabytes of data they have already saved and how to access it.
So... one thing that I think is going to happen in the next few years is that the #Trump Administration will go after the #InternetArchive . Since they are obviously highly interested in rewriting history to suit their agenda, the Wayback Machine is going to be seen as an obvious threat.
And taking them down is probably not going to be hard. Not only is the Internet Archive an US-based organization, but they are already in legal jeopardy due to their "National Emergency Library" and their hosting of a lot of copyrighted material which is easily legally available.
So... _do_ we have a backup plan for preserving the digital history of the Internet - one hosted in a jurisdiction that is safer (for now)? Or are we are just going to have to accept that this will be gone forever?
Does anyone know of organized efforts to backup publicly available datasets from US government websites? I want to join any efforts to preserve datasets, especially for NOAA. #noaa #data #science #academia #internetarchive
Daily podcast: Why The World Should Protect The Internet Archive
#News #TechNews #Technology #InternetArchive #History #HistoricalPreservation #CDC #transparency #podcast
"This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear."
I think most SDF members are capable of doing this if they have bandwidth and room.
ArchiveTeam Warrior - Archiveteam
#Archiving #InternetArchive
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
Among the other things the @internetarchive does: make archives of government websites at the end of each presidential term.
https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/
