Welcome to the Public Domain AUTUMN (1930)!

This 3rd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies 🎶 cycle was released in February, but the #AutumnEquinox is the time to enjoy it.

👀 Watch the full fall 🍁 short ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/autumn_1930

#FallEquinox #SeptemberEquinox #Disney #Animation #ClassicCartoons #VintageAnimation

Care work is often invisible and undervalued, leaving an important part of our history at risk of disappearing. Amanda Gray Rendón examines how social media can preserve caregiving work and the communities that support it. 🏛️

📚 Read 'Archiving Community Care Work Online' in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/136/

#Bookstodon #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive

🧩 A math puzzle. 🚗 A solar car. 🌪️ Natural-disaster insurance. ⚡ Electricity oversupply in Kyushu.

These were four very different questions put to ClimateGPT 4.3, a specialized climate model, during a recent Internet Archive tour. The results were a mix of useful answers, wrong turns & outright refusals.

📖 Learn more about the experiment ➡️ https://erasmus.ai/?p=875

For many artists, a website is more than a portfolio. It’s a record of a life’s work, built over decades, & something they want future generations to find.

CARTA is helping preserve more than 50 artists’ websites, many by Latinx artists, so their work can survive technical failures, lost hosting & more.

Learn more on our blog👇
https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/25/artistswebsites/

🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs brought people together to learn, trade software, share ideas & explore the rapidly changing world of personal computing. 💾

A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a remarkable time capsule of that world. These newsletters & many more for Atari, Apple II, Texas Instruments computers & other platforms are available in Internet Archive collections. 📚

More on. our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-history-time-capsule/

#RetroComputing

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, SIMULTANEOUS COUNTER-COMPOSITION (1930) 🎨🇳🇱

🖼️ Theo van Doesburg’s geometric abstraction is associated with De Stijl, the influential movement he helped shape.

See it ➡️ https://archive.org/details/simultaneous-counter-composition-1930
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The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things.

You can:
🔖 Save something before it disappears.
🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed.
✍️ Improve or contribute to a collection.
🤝 Connect with people doing the work of preservation.

Over the next eight weeks, we'll show you how.

SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT.

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/

#ToolsYouCanUse

What does it mean to participate in a library?

🔖 You could save a webpage before it disappears. 📚 Improve a book record. 🔎 Discover a government document. 📣 Share a collection. 🏛️ Help preserve your community’s digital history.

The Internet Archive has tools to do all this & more.

Over the next 8 weeks, we’ll show you how.

SAVE → DISCOVER → CONTRIBUTE → CONNECT

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/

#ToolsYouCanUse

🏛️ Government websites can change or disappear overnight, taking public records with them. 🕳️ That’s why libraries have collaborated on the End of Term Web Archive since 2004, preserving U.S. government websites at every presidential transition.

📚 The latest crawl captured petabytes of material, including 2 million videos.

The End of Term Web Archive is Democracy’s Library in action.

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/24/archiving-democracy-how-the-u-s-end-of-term-web-archive-preserves-government-history/

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Negativland’s infamous U2 parody sparked a landmark fight over fair use & artistic freedom.

Hear the group whose work helped shape that conversation, live at the Internet Archive!

📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM
📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/negativland-live-at-internet-archive/

#funcheapsf #SFevents

🌐 With 370+ campers & 350+ sessions & activities, there was no way to experience everything at DWeb Camp. That’s part of the point: JOMO, the joy of missing out.

On Aug. 27, hear about projects & takeaways from Camp with Matthew Hodgson, Arushi Bandi & Alaska.

📅 Thurs. Aug. 27
🕙 10 AM PT / 19 CET
📍VIRTUAL
🎟️ Register: https://tix.dod.ngo/dwebcamp/virtualmeetup-aug2026/

#DWeb

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/