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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Likely to Fix Your Computer: CNET

Before YouTube tutorials, there was CNET, walking you through every crash, install & “have you tried turning it off and on again?”

See more of the Class of ’96 ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/

Go Wayback to 1996 👉 https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174919/http://www.cnet.com/

#Classof96

May 10 at 10:14pmWeb
Show threadinternetarchive3d ago

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#WaybackMachine

Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

Fight for the Future
Show threadTim Zee3d ago
@internetarchive
Online petitions are totally useless. Sorry but true!
Get actual subscribers to contact the publications to suggest a compromise. One possibility is a 6 month embargo on links from those publications before the Wayback Machine can publish them.
Show threadgunstick3d ago
@ilust606 @internetarchive they just do a broad block on anything with a captcha or proof of work to keep AI scrapers away.
They are not specifically blocking the archive.
This means there is no embargo thing to consider.
Show threadTim Zee3d ago
@gunstick @internetarchive
My point was that as a compromise, they would permit articles to be posted at Wayback 6 months after publication. This way they would not lose readers who depend on time-sensitive content – which is probably most of them.
Some give and take is needed to resolve this.
Online petitions go nowhere. Remember the silly petition to re-do Season 8 of Game of Thrones?
Show threadKaito3d ago
@internetarchive This tells me they have something to hide that could be unsavory to know in the future.
Show threadWoozle Hypertwin3d ago
@internetarchive My first domain-based web site is in there! redhouse.com
Red House