A web archivist recounts discovering that teapuppies.com, a fansite for the Ochaken anime and toy line that had been online unchanged since 2005, had vanished and its domain was repurposed to serve online gambling ads. The author, who works professionally in web archiving, admits they never archived the site themselves despite having the tools, and uses the loss as the basis for a guide teaching readers how to back up webpages using standard formats like WARC.
blog.mistys-internet.website
· 2026-11-02
A Reddit user who bought a storage unit's contents found an Intel development PC containing a working Larrabee GPU prototype along with USB drives holding Intel's original graphics drivers and documentation. The owner backed up the software and published it on the Internet Archive, letting surviving Larrabee cards run properly for the first time. Tests showed the card running Crysis at 1280x720 with medium settings, hitting roughly 17 FPS on one driver build and about 36 FPS on another.
techspot.com
· 2026-11-02
Clipart Studio is a new free app that lets users browse and collect clipped-out images, evoking the old-school practice of cutting pictures from magazines. It combines an archive-like library of imagery with a Pinterest-style interface for saving and organizing favorites.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-31
Project Timestamper has cryptographically timestamped the entire Common Crawl archive, covering 339 billion web page snapshots gathered over 18 years and totaling more than 10 petabytes. Using existing hash blocks of up to 3,000 index entries provided by Common Crawl, the team hashed roughly 134 million blocks and committed them via the OpenTimestamps service to the Bitcoin blockchain as of September 26, 2026.
projecttimestamper.org
· 2026-10-09
The Internet Archive said the Wayback Machine has faced surges of high-volume automated traffic, prompting it to deploy protective measures that occasionally block legitimate users. The organization updated the error message shown when requests are rejected with a 429 'too many requests' code and is refining how it distinguishes abusive bots from genuine visitors.
blog.archive.org
· 2026-09-15
The Internet Archive is asking supporters to start recurring monthly donations of $25 or more in September, with each new gift matched 2:1 during the campaign. The nonprofit says it relies on donor funding to maintain its own servers and infrastructure, which store 210 petabytes of freely accessible material without ads or paid subscriptions.
blog.archive.org
· 2026-09-07
X has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nitter, a free tool that let people view public tweets without logging in or agreeing to X's terms. Nitter initially relied on X's API, then switched to scraping public web pages after that API access was cut off; now X is treating even that as an illegal circumvention of its platform.
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
· 2026-08-27
The Internet Archive page for Isaac Asimov's classic 1958 short story 'The Feeling of Power' is accompanied by a fundraising message from the nonprofit, asking readers to support its free-access mission. The organization notes it relies on small donations, averaging about $14, rather than advertising or selling user data to fund its operations.
archive.org
· 2026-08-26
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