The staff at the Internet Archive is fond of Raiders of the Lost Ark, thanks in no small part to the film’s famous final scene. A lowly worker wheeling a crate — which just happens to contain the ...

When Marion Stokes passed away in 2012, she left behind a family and personal legacy. She also left 40,000 VHS and Betamax tapes in her Philadelphia home, filled with local and national news shows she ...

Chicago music fanatic Aadam Jacobs began recording local shows in the early 80s and kept at it obsessively for more than 30 years. He’s never sought to monetize this work, though artists have ...

Though the nonprofit’s project is focused on the history of radio, the project’s archivist said he also wants to preserve old internet communications as well. Reading time 3 minutes As much as some ...

The Internet Archive, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has served as a public repository for all things digital for more than 20 years, has revealed plans to create a backup of its vast ...

The Internet Archive is a treasure trove for software geeks. In recent months, the site has hosted everything from GIFs from Geocities to Macintosh games from the 80s. Its latest blast from the past ...

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and ...

As part of its continuing mission to catalog and preserve our shared digital history, the Internet Archive has published a collection of more than 900 classic arcade games, playable directly in a Web ...

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Brewster Khale, the founder of Internet Archive, about the attack by hackers that put the archive offline for days — and what may have happened if it had succeeded.