#the wayback machine

[mesopelagic-zone]

Internet Archive and 'The Wayback Machine' are Experiencing an Existential, Legal Threat.

Below is a link to a petition whose goal it is to save one of the most effective tools against digital censorship available to the public.

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Defend the Internet Archive

"At a time when digital information is being deleted, rewritten, and erased, preservation is more important than ever."

Signing this petition is FREE and takes less than 5 minutes.

Recently, user @we-are-astronomer was able to utilize Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to locate and preserve government articles DELETED from the NASA website by Trump Administration censors. For more information, their post can be found underneath the break.

If resources such as these are destroyed, we risk losing every digital article and file deleted under the Trump Administration's censorship. Without a method for restoring erased information, censorship proceeds unhindered. No body, no crime.

Collective action gets results. Do your part to protect public peace of mind.

Post by @we-are-astronomer

💬 13  🔁 2828  ❤️ 3191 · HIYA. · So a lot has gone on in the last little bit. NASA recently was ordered to scrub their site of women's contri

[caine-shrine]

I want to express my condolences to anybody who was at all attached to Gooseworx being on Tumblr. I heard on Discord that it appears she has deleted her account. Now, there’s a 30 day window in which she can come back if she decides to, so all of that stuff wouldn’t be lost

If you are personally invested in that, I would encourage you to send some gently-worded messages to her on her other social media accounts.

Otherwise:

I will reblog this maybe once a week during that period, if time blindness doesn’t get me. 

[l1ttle-m1ss-suzi3]

Angus Oblong’s website (circa. 2004)

(Found via the Wayback Machine)

[autisticaboutstufflol]

Hello tumblr users!

Are you someone who uses the Internet Archive, or the Wayback Machine?

Well, do I have a survey for you to fill out!

I’m doing a research project for my diploma in library services, and part of that is researching what impact two GLAMR organisations have on their community. I have chosen a local library to me, and, as implied by the initial question, the Internet Archives!

And what better place to find people who are just as passionate about the Internet Archives as I am than tumblr!

If you have a spare 5 – 10 minutes, and are a user of the Internet Archive or the Wayback Machine, I would really appreciate it if you filled out this survey, that has a couple of questions about how you use the archives, and how it impacts you + the community.

There's no financial incentive, but I can offer you a shitty drawing of your blorbo! After you're finished with the survey, simply DM me the secret word, along with a reference of your blorbo, and I will do my damndest to make them look at least a bit alright.

Thank you so much! Reblog if you'd like, I'd love as many answers as I can get, and I appreciate all your time!

Internet Archives Survey

Hi! Thank you for coming over to the form! This is just a quick survey to get some information from the online community as to how the Inter

[infinity-times-infinity]

What did Sleeping At Last look like in 2001?

Here’s their site [via wayback machine]

[j4yph0bic]

Now more than ever, support the Internet Archive [bsky thread]

Sign Here: https://chng.it/FVNDjw8dHH

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Please reblog so this reaches more people!!

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

girl who's capturing my blog on the wayback machine

[inhumanliquid]

My beautiful wife (the Wayback Machine) is sickly (keeps throwing 503 errors) and is too tired to even lift her hand (currently unable to save pages correctly) but I need her to help me renovate the house (I exclusively use Wayback links on my PluralSpace and if I used non-Wayback links as placeholders I'd forget)