Woman feared people would rewrite history, so she recorded TV nonstop for 30 years. Now archivists realize she saved something priceless TV networks were erasing history, so she saved it herself. We Got This Covered · Oct 28, 2025
Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since Almost three decades since it started backing up the web, the Internet Archive now holds 1 trillion archived pages and over 100,000TB of data. TechRadar · Oct 14, 2025
Internet Archive settles two-year lawsuit with record labels over music preservation program A settlement has been reached in a lengthy copyright lawsuit over early 20th century records. PC Gamer · Sep 21, 2025
33 Pics Showing How Dangerous Playgrounds Were In The Past How much different is the world we live in today? Bored Panda · Sep 15, 2025
Zoomable magazine archive lets you plunge eyeball-first into personal computing's first baby steps through the 70s and beyond Byte back. PC Gamer · Aug 27, 2025
The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content Google and OpenAI can scrape Reddit's content, but they paid for it. PC Gamer · Aug 11, 2025
Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites Data hoarders are working overtime to save federal websites that are in danger of being wiped. Tom’s Hardware · Feb 13, 2025
The rush to preserve data Trump deleted The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear Salon · Feb 4, 2025
Lessons in cybersecurity from the Internet Archive Breaches Pinpointing the blast radius post-cyberattack is tougher than ever. What we need is attribute-based access. TechRadar · Dec 3, 2024
Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay Finally, a win for game preservation. PC Gamer · Nov 14, 2024
Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine. Reason · Nov 10, 2024
The Internet Archive hit with a new level of cyberattack The Internet Archive failed to rotate API keys, which meant attackers still had some level of access. TechRadar · Oct 21, 2024
Internet Archive is back up in a provisional "read-only" state since cyberattack Internet Archive works its way back online following sustained attacks and a major September security breach. Tom’s Hardware · Oct 14, 2024
31 million users impacted by Internet Archive data breach — what we know A threat actor compromised 'The Wayback Machine' and millions of users information has been stolen. Tom’s Guide · Oct 11, 2024
International Business Times · Oct 10, 2024 Internet Archive Reels From 'Catastrophic' Cyberattack, Data Breach The Internet Archive, an online repository of web pages, was offline Thursday after its founder confirmed a major cyberattack that exposed the data of millions of users and left the site defaced.
Tom’s Hardware · Oct 10, 2024 Internet Archive hacked and 31 million user accounts leaked — hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' claims responsibility Hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' hacked The Internet Archive and leaked 31 Million user account data which includes emails and hashed passwords in an SQL file and defaced the website with a pop-up message.
PC Gamer · Oct 10, 2024 Change your passwords: Attackers claim a 'catastrophic security breach' of the Internet Archive, with 31 million emails and hashed passwords captured "See 31 million of you on HIBP!"
TechRadar · Oct 10, 2024 Internet Archive hacked, millions of records stolen following DDoS attack One of the internet's best resources has been hacked, with 31 million Internet Archive users reportedly affected.
Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2024 Internet Archive hack exposes data of 31 million users One of the web's most important sites has suffered a data breach and series of DDoS attacks
PC Gamer · Sep 21, 2024 A veteran developer found a beta build of Half-Life in his storage unit and has made it available for anyone to download Videogame preservation in action.
Tom’s Guide · Sep 16, 2024 How to access archived web pages in Google Step into a virtual time machine and see how websites used to look.
Tom’s Guide · Sep 11, 2024 Wayback Machine links are now are part of Google Search — here's what's new Google and the Internet Archive have teamed up to provide WayBack Machine links for older versions of websites.
PC Gamer · Sep 6, 2024 The Internet Archive has lost the appeal for its landmark copyright case, agreeing to pay an undisclosed amount to publishers This has been four years in the making.
PC Gamer · Aug 20, 2024 Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel The Famous Computer Cafe aired in California in the early 1980s.
PC Gamer · Jun 27, 2024 Paramount rounds out a grim month for media preservation by nuking 25 years of Comedy Central video Why keep today what you may or may not sell again tomorrow?