📽️📺 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
"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
@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?
Almost ready to start here at @internetarchiveeurope
#wayBackMachine #internetArchiveEurope
"Internet Archive et sa Wayback Machine sont en danger à cause de l’IA"
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Wikipedia #IAGen #GenAI (intégration plutôt que référencement, dommageable) ...
https://www.01net.com/actualites/le-grand-projet-darchivage-du-web-est-menace-par-lia.html
"ways of working with the Wayback Machine - studio and book talk in Amsterdam"
https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/18/wayback-amsterdam
#WaybackMachine
[via https://inkdroid.org/2026/02/22/bookmarks/]
Man there were some cool articles in WotC's dead archives about the Duels of the Planeswalkers engines but I have such a hard time navigating the Wayback Machine without a specific URL that I can't find them again #mtg #magicthegathering #waybackmachine #internetarchive
Bad news, but how do we archive now and preserve the web?
Anyone?
And no, #ArchiveOrg #WayBackMachine doesn't work for me on most sites.
#Wikipedia #Archive #History #ArchiveToday #ArchiveIS #Internet #Disinformation #Tips
Why do they have to exclude #neopets from the @internetarchive wayback machine?
🧵 Curious how researchers, journalists, and artists dig into the web’s past? 🌐
WAYS OF WORKING WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE shows how the #WaybackMachine opens up discovery & creativity from tracking platform changes to investigating misinformation & remixing archived sites.
A recent gathering at Internet Archive Europe shared methods, tools, and collaborations shaping digital research and media art.
Learn more ⤵️
https://www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/ways-of-working-with-the-wayback-machine/
Diretor critica novos bloqueios ao Internet Archive
But are #publishers right to worry that #AI cos can freely scrape the #WaybackMachine to train their tools? No, says #MarkGraham, its director.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, & monitoring to prevent abusive access."
Preserving The Web Is Not The ...
Update. But are #publishers right to worry that #AI companies can freely scrape the #WaybackMachine in order to train their tools? No, says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, and monitoring to prevent abusive access, and we watch for and actively respond to new scraping patterns as they emerge."
Does anybody else currently have problems accessing archived web pages via the Wayback Machine?@internetarchive
Techdirt: Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.. “These concerns are understandable, but unfounded. The Wayback Machine is not intended to be a backdoor for large-scale commercial scraping and, like others on the web today, we expend significant time and effort working to prevent such abuse. Whatever legitimate concerns people may have about generative AI, libraries are not the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/18/techdirt-preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Wayback Machine Director Pushes Back on AI Scraping Fears Driving Archive Blocks
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/18/wayback-machine-director-pushes-back/
À lire aussi sur la question de l'#IA et la #waybackmachine Mark Graham
Generative #AI presents real challenges in today’s information ecosystem. But preserving the time-honored role of #libraries and #archives in society has never been more important. We’ve worked alongside news organizations for decades. Let’s continue working together in service of an open, referenceable, and enduring #web
#webarchiving
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is
#iloveinternetarchive
#WaybackMachine Director Pushes Back on AI Scraping Fears Driving Archive Blocks
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/18/wayback-machine-director-pushes-back
As reported by Nieman Lab last month, some major media organizations—including The #NewYorkTimes, #TheGuardian, and #Reddit—have started blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their sites over unfounded concerns about AI scraping.
Mike Masnick in #Techdirt explained why this is “a mistake we’re going to regret for generations.”
limiting #webarchiving threatens our shared #digitalhistory.
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Regarding various news sites blocking the Internet Archive because someone, somewhere, might be using it to train AI.
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers."
"When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite."
