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🔎How about some literature ? Here are some wonderful texts, articles and research on Lost Media (because it’s fun 🙂) :
Hanáková’s thesis surrounding the lost star wipe effect : Lost Media: Collecting and Archiving of Artefacts from the Digital Era

https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/175778/120427589.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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Tom’s Hardware: Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald’s boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09. “If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard of these nostalgic artifacts from the days of analog TV, stored carefully in McDonald’s boxes, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/toms-hardware-gigantic-vhs-videotape-hoard-of-thousands-of-videos-stored-in-mcdonalds-boxes-being-given-away-for-free-internet-archive-looks-set-to-claim-the-tapes-of-u-s-news-output-s/

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The FBI Is Going After Internet Archives Now...

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Code4Lib Journal: Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study. “This article outlines how The University of Kentucky Libraries downloaded over 86 thousand previously uploaded newspaper issues from the Internet Archive for local use. The process leveraged ChatGPT to automate the process of generating Python scripts that accessed the Internet Archive via its API (Application […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/22/code4lib-journal-extracting-a-large-corpus-from-the-internet-archive-a-case-study/

Code4Lib Journal: Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Internet Archive Blogs: Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived: Share Your Wayback Story. “Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been capturing the web—saving the voices, creativity, and communities that make up our shared digital history. Nearly one trillion pages later, we’re still archiving, so that future generations can look back and understand the world as we lived it online. Now we […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/27/celebrating-1-trillion-webpages-archived-share-your-wayback-story-internet-archive/

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How-To Geek: The 8 Best Internet Archive Alternatives for Digging Up Old Stuff. “Until recently, the Internet Archive has been my go-to wayback machine for accessing websites, documents, and files that are no longer available on their original sites. But lately, I’ve discovered some other sites that let you dig up old stuff in totally new ways. These are some of the best Internet Archive […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/how-to-geek-the-8-best-internet-archive-alternatives-for-digging-up-old-stuff/

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Internet Archive Blogs: Librarians Convene to Develop Strategies for Documenting Their Community’s Digital Heritage. “Made possible in part with support from the Mellon Foundation, the meetings allowed librarians from across the country to discuss shared challenges and opportunities around documenting, preserving, and sharing the unique culture and digital heritage of their communities.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/15/internet-archive-blogs-librarians-convene-to-develop-strategies-for-documenting-their-communitys-digital-heritage/

Internet Archive Blogs: Librarians Convene to Develop Strategies for Documenting Their Community’s Digital Heritage | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Internet Archive Blog: Wayback Machine to Hit ‘Once-in-a-Generation Milestone’ this October: One Trillion Web Pages Archived. “This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That’s one trillion memories, moments, and movements—preserved for the public, forever.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/wayback-machine-to-hit-once-in-a-generation-milestone-this-october-one-trillion-web-pages-archived-internet-archive/

Wayback Machine to Hit ‘Once-in-a-Generation Milestone’ this October: One Trillion Web Pages Archived (Internet Archive) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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