Today, on the Day of the Dead 2023, we at the Internet Archive honor the death of Python 2. Having mostly emerged from one of the greatest software upgrade SNAFU’s
https://blog.archive.org/2023/11/02/in-memoriam-of-python-2/
In June, we announced the official launch of Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) our platform for supporting computational research with digital collections. The Archiving & Data Services group ...
To celebrate National Library Week 2023, we are introducing readers to four staff members who work behind the scenes at the Internet Archive, helping connect patrons with our collections, serv...
https://blog.archive.org/2023/04/27/national-library-week-2023-brenton-user-experience/
Libraries are full of stories in a variety of formats from picture books to large print, audiobooks to ebooks, and more. But there’s so much more to the story. To
https://blog.archive.org/2023/04/24/national-library-week-2023-theres-more-to-the-story/
Last week the Internet Archive upped our bandwidth capacity 30%, based on increased usage and increased financial support. Thank you. This is our outbound bandwidth graph that has several stori...
https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-bandwidth/
At the end of the movie “Titanic,” from her makeshift raft Rose Calvert promises Jack Dawson, “I will never let go,” but then, well, a floating board is only so
On Monday, June 24, at a spot about one kilometer from our Richmond, CA data center, one strand of our fiber optic link to the Internet failed. We weren't trying to move fast and break things...
https://blog.archive.org/2019/06/29/two-thin-strands-of-glass/
We began developing a new system for counting views statistics on archive.org a few years ago. We had received feedback from our partners and users asking for more fine-grained information
https://blog.archive.org/2018/12/19/new-views-stats-for-the-new-year/
In B. Traven’s The Death Ship, American sailor Gerard Gales finds himself stranded in post-World War I Antwerp after his freighter departs without him. He’s arrested for the crime of
https://blog.archive.org/2018/08/25/identity-in-the-decentralized-web/
We updated our audio/video (and TV) 3rd party JS-based player from v6.8 to v8.2 today. This was updated with some code to have the same feature set as before, as
https://blog.archive.org/2018/04/11/audio-video-player-updated-to-jwplayer-v8-2/