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Consumer protection agency deletes thousands of pages as Trump administration seeks to dismantle it

Deletion of the bureau’s website content is just the most recent part of a larger plan to ‘undermine an agency that’s helped people’

The Guardian - US

‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted

Group has banded together to rescue data as Trump administration has removed or altered data on climate change, reproductive health, LGBTQ+ people and more

The Guardian - US

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in a garage — code was open-sourced to mark 86-DOS 1.00’s anniversary

Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.

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Why news publishers are blocking AI from accessing internet archives

AI companies using archived news content could be a major violation of copyright laws, especially in the midst of active lawsuits against companies such as OpenAI and Perplexity.

Euronews

Relive the PC magazine cover disk era with 758-strong archive.org CD-ROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes Floppy Disks from as early as 1993

If you miss the old cover-mounted demo disks of yore, take a look at the Internet Archive's extensive collections.

Tom’s Hardware

If you want to remember feeling hopeful for the future, you can read over 200 issues of the legendary Byte magazine for free on the Internet Archive

Take me back.

PC Gamer

The Internet Archive has preserved 758 old PC Gamer demo discs you can download and play

Dive into a treasure trove of throwbacks and previews.

PC Gamer

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AI could mean the end of the Wayback Machine, as news websites are increasingly blocking it to prevent content scraping

This isn't the first time the Wayback Machine has faced what could be deemed an existential threat.

TechRadar

News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages — 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models

Many major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine's crawler from archiving their pages, despite using the tool for their reporting. Their primary concern is that AI tech companies are breaking fair use and training their models on publicly available data.

Tom’s Hardware

Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

In 1989, an up-and-coming band called Nirvana played in Chicago. Aadam Jacobs was there

The Independent UK

Beloved YouTuber The Gaming Historian moves on from making videos with a 'parting gift': A ton of ancient Nintendo court docs you can browse on the Internet Archive

The docs are from what may be the company's most famous lawsuit.

PC Gamer

'Preserving the web is not the problem. Losing it is,' claims the director of the Internet Archive

"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers."

PC Gamer

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community, and they've even updated the game for modern PCs: 'This is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years'

Wicked sick.

PC Gamer

News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking.

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The Wayback Machine recently captured its trillionth web page – here are 5 surprising facts about the 'living history of the internet'

You might be surprised at what the Internet Archive, the non-profit keeper of the Wayback Machine, gets up to.

PC Gamer

TIL the Wayback Machine saves 150,000 gigabytes of webpages every day and lives in a church in San Francisco

Currently, one copy of the Internet Archive is 175 petabytes of web history and counting.

PC Gamer

Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard

Microsoft is working with the Internet Archive's Jason Scott.

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 being given away for free on Reddit.

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Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post

Two posts explaining the campaign, both from earlier this year, were deleted after redditors took notice.

PC Gamer

'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'

The Internet Archive has archived one trillion webpages since its inception.

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Woman feared people would rewrite history, so she recorded TV nonstop for 30 years. Now archivists realize she saved something priceless

TV networks were erasing history, so she saved it herself.

TechRadar

Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since

Almost three decades since it started backing up the web, the Internet Archive now holds 1 trillion archived pages and over 100,000TB of data.

PC Gamer

Internet Archive settles two-year lawsuit with record labels over music preservation program

A settlement has been reached in a lengthy copyright lawsuit over early 20th century records.

PC Gamer

Zoomable magazine archive lets you plunge eyeball-first into personal computing's first baby steps through the 70s and beyond

Byte back.

PC Gamer

The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content

Google and OpenAI can scrape Reddit's content, but they paid for it.

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