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ALT Maeve Iwasaki demonstrates microfiche digitization at the Internet Archive's physical archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.
ALT Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with pallets visible inside.
ALT Screenshot of the Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon website, dated Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026, showing its masthead with a Golden Gate Bridge banner photo and navigation menu, above a "Then and Now" article titled "Clement Street and Funston Avenue." The article shows two side-by-side photos: on the left, a black-and-white 1930 photo of the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist and Reading Room, a Classical Revival building built in 1923 by architect Carl Werner; on the right, a color 2020s photo of the same building, captioned as now home to the Internet Archive, which purchased it in 2009.
ALT Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "HOMESTARRUNNER.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Homestar Runner web page from October 15, 2000, and September 13, 2026.
ALT Quote tile with an orange background and greenish-black text. Headline reads: "Can we archive a history that is designed to be hidden?" Quote below reads: "The invisible, and at times isolating, nature of care work contributes to the precarity of archiving women's care labor history." Attributed to Amanda Gray Rendon, Researcher. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.
ALT Logo of the Institute of Museum Library Services.
ALT Photo of a panel discussion at a "Digital Ghosts" event. Four panelists sit in red and gray chairs against a wall with projected text reading "Digital Ghosts" and "Dorsey, Kaufmann & Feeling Data." A large seated audience fills the foreground, with blue lighting throughout the gallery-like space.
ALT Event graphic for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm–10pm, at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco. On cream graph paper, a schematic line drawing of a classical library building (columns and pediment) is rendered in overlapping pink, blue, yellow, and orange lines with dot joints, beside bold black and pink text.
ALT Internet Archive logo beside the Better World Books logo, a blue-to-green winged book icon above the text "Better World Books," on a mustard-yellow background.
ALT Logo graphic on a pale blue-white background. Bold black text reads "TODAY'S NEWS" on the first line and "NEWS" on the second, with three yellow chevron arrows pointing right beside the text. Below, in a thin black monospace font, is the tagline "for tomorrow."
ALT Brewster Kahle gives a tour at the Physical Archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.
ALT Photo of a panel discussion at a "Digital Ghosts" event. Four panelists sit in red and gray chairs against a wall with projected text reading "Digital Ghosts" and "Dorsey, Kaufmann & Feeling Data." A large seated audience fills the foreground, with blue lighting throughout the gallery-like space.
ALT Internet Archive Wayback Machine logo.
ALT Quote tile with a light grey background and black text. Headline reads: "What can an old GIF teach us about preserving digital culture?" Quote below reads: "As with a lot of things on the web, GIFs were everywhere until the moment they weren't." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.
ALT Quote tile with a teal background and black text. Quote reads: "Early GIFs off GeoCities websites are really only accessible thanks to the work of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the GifCities search engine." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.
ALT Quote tile with an orange background and black text. Quote reads: "This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don't save it, even if it seems like it's everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.
ALT Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.
ALT Event promo graphic for Negativland live at Internet Archive, presenting "Significantly Less Deceptive" (An Over the Edge Evening), Sept. 16 at 300 Funston Ave, SF, CA, doors 6pm, show 6:30pm, Q&A afterwards, tickets $20. Ornate antique picture frames holding collaged, glitter-flecked portraits of two men with glasses sit among a field of yellow wildflowers. Photo by Jennifer Bennett and Negativland.