Mastodawn

Haha, such a funny coincidence that as the #Epstein scandal was featured heavily in the global news today, meanwhile the #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine @internetarchive @waybackmachine was down. 🙈

internetarchive Mar 15

🎬 The Oscars celebrate movie history, but their website has a history too.

Take a trip back to the early web with this vintage capture of oscars․org, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.

See how Hollywood’s biggest night's site appeared online 30 years ago ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229154935/https://www.oscars.org/

#Oscars #InternetHistory #WaybackMachine

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petersuber Mar 12

Update. While the #ThomsonReuters employee letter is not yet public, #Poynter quotes from it: "The detrimental actions of #ICE, and the #DHS’s lack of oversight and direct falsehoods regarding the situation in #Minnesota and other cities, makes us question if our investigative products and services are being used in accordance with our mission and values, as well as in accordance with the law and our nation’s constitution.”
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsrooms-letter-against-ice-dhs/

The same article links to a similar letter from #RELX employees to management about a $22.1 million contract with ICE. RELX is the parent company of #LexisNexis and #Elsevier.
https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/law360-demand-letter.pdf

That letter is public. From the RELX employee letter: "We are deeply concerned that RELX is directly aiding the separation of families, the removal of children from schools and the death of individuals in detention centers."

RELX deleted a page from its FAQ, posted during the Biden administration, saying that its tools would not be used for these purposes. But here's a copy from the #WaybackMachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307061658/https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government/our-services-for-homeland-security

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Journalists push back against parent companies’ contracts with ICE - Poynter

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

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_GreyWolf Mar 5

Question to you internet archaeologists and old neck beards out there:

Can anyone tell me what skyweyr[.]com was originally? I stumbled upon this domain and it was used in valid contexts in 1998, but the first snapshot by the #WaybackMachine is already a redirect to a porn page.

But maybe some of you were there back in the day?

Please Boost

iam-py-test Mar 4

What website archiving services do people use [multiple choice]?

#WaybackMachine #Megalodon #GhostArchive #ArchiveToday #WebArchiving #Archivism #Poll

Wayback Machine

71.4%

Megalodon.jp

Ghost Archive

archive.today

14.3%

perma.cc

archive.today unofficial Chinese clone

7.1%

Other (please comment)

7.1%

Poll ended at Mar 11 at 7:07pm.

internetarchive Mar 2

📽️📺 Named for a classic Star Trek torture device, The Agony Booth was a cult site for brutally honest movie & TV reviews.

Running from the early 2000s until 2022, it chronicled pop culture pain for a generation.

Revisit web history with the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org

#WebNostalgia #InternetHistory #WaybackMachine #PopCulture #MovieReviews #StarTrek

Longreads Feb 25

"To understand the Archive is to understand the physical reality of digital memory. It is a story of 20,000 hard drives, 45 miles of cabling, and a vision that began in 1996. . . ."

Bruce Li for HackerNoon: https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting

#Longreads #Internet #Web #Technology #Hardware #Servers #WaybackMachine #InternetArchive

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon

A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.

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☑️ Cath Feb 25

@internetarchive True, but the Internet Archive does not work anymore for many Dutch newspapers, like #Volkskrant #Trouw #AD #Parool #VN #DPG , so how do we preserve the web now?

#WayBackMachine