Image via Internet Archive Most internet users have probably encountered a dead link at some point. A news article disappears ...
Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has become increasingly essential as more and more web content vanishes into the ether or is ...
There is a particular irony in a publication deleting its own past. For nearly 30 years, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has done the quiet, unglamorous work that newsroom archives and library ...
In January, Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers — including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. — had started blocking the Internet Archive due to concerns that AI ...
Fearing that the well-known archiving service will be used for AI training, more and more news sites are blocking the Wayback Machine – not just in the USA. In the fight against the unauthorized use ...
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. All that’s on top of the Archive’s vast collection of other digital resources, ...
Canal+ has cut DStv Internet’s product offering down to just three fixed-LTE packages, each offering 400GB of anytime data ...
The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director ...
Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin designed to combat link rot—the gradual decay of web links as pages are moved, changed, or taken down. It automatically scans your ...
In efforts to block AI companies' web crawlers, publishers are also not allowing Wayback Machine to take snapshots of their content, fearing that it could later be scraped from the pages of the ...
The Internet Archive has been responsible for saving and providing access to trillions of websites over the past 30 years. AI is putting a damper on the organization’s work, as large language models ...
An analysis from Originality AI, an AI detection company, found that 23 big news sites block the Internet Archive’s crawler, Wired reports. A USA Today spokesperson told the publication that the move ...