Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

🔎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

#lostmedia #lostwave #research #webarchives #internet #internetarchives

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/

The #FBI Is Going After #InternetArchives Now... #yt #sog someordinarygamers

https://youtu.be/1agNXZihwFo

#privacy #security #archivetoday

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/

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/

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/

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/