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Tech NewsNewsEven the Wayback Machine Is Adding Fact-Checking Labels Now
Online platforms are in the midst of a reckoning, and it hasn’t been pretty. Disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories have run rampant online for years, bleeding into the real world in terrifying or even deadly incidents, but websites only recently began cracking down on them in earnest with comprehensive fact-checking policies. Now, the internet’s largest … Continued
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Tech NewsWhen the Internet Archive Forgets
On the internet, there are certain institutions we have come to rely on daily to keep truth from becoming nebulous or elastic. Not necessarily in the way that something stupid like Verrit aspired to, but at least in confirming that you aren’t losing your mind, that an old post or article you remember reading did, … Continued
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Tech NewsLibrary of Congress Gives Up Collecting All Tweets Because Twitter Is Garbage
In 2010, the Library of Congress started archiving every single public tweet that was published on Twitter. It even retroactively acquired all tweets dating back to 2006. But the Library of Congress will stop archiving every tweet on December 31, 2017. Why is it stopping? Because tweets are trash now. The Library of Congress issued … Continued
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President Trump Deletes Every Old Press Release, But The Internet Never Forgets
Yesterday, journalists discovered that the Trump regime had deleted the president’s infamous press release from 2015 that called for a ban on all Muslims traveling to the United States. But it wasn’t just the Muslim ban. Every single press release from before January 1, 2017 has been erased from donaldjtrump.com. Thankfully, the internet never forgets. … Continued
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The Wayback Machine Is Getting a Search Engine
The Wayback Machine is knowledge storage on a colossal scale: maintained by the Internet Archive, it’s a repository of how everything looked on the internet in the past. But the biggest libraries are the hardest to organize, which is why $2 million is being spent to give the Wayback Machine its very own Google. The … Continued
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Russia Is Banning the Internet Archive and Blaming It On Terrorism
Russian internet users can no longer time warp through internet history. This week, the Russian government blocked the Internet Archive domain–which makes the nonprofit’s popular and useful time-warping tool, the Wayback Machine, off limits. The Kremlin has an explanation for blocking the Internet Archive, of course: A censorship monitoring project run by the Russian Pirate … Continued
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The Internet Archive Has Now Saved a Whopping 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of Data
If you try to think about how big the Internet is, and how much data it contains, the results are mind-boggling. That hasn’t stopped the Internet Archive from trying to collect it all though, and now they’ve hit a big milestone: 10 petabytes. That’s 10,000 terabytes, or 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. It’s a bit. What are they … Continued
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Old Websites Sure Are Embarrassing
The Wayback Machine offers an incredible catalog of what the web once was. But unlike that beloved Polaroid of your dad donning tweed and an afro, anyone can access the skeletons in your digital closet, anytime. Here’s our peek wayback. https://gizmodo.com/old-websites-sure-are-funny-349333 Memory [Forever] is our week-long consideration of what it really means when our memories, … Continued
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Old Websites Sure Are Funny
Digging through websites cached from the 90s is akin to seeing a celebrity’s high school yearbook pictures—during the early, awkward years of the web, brave companies made a stab at winning consumer hearts through 15″ CRTs and 14.4k dial up modems. Inspired by this MSU page, we decided to take a gander through the Internet … Continued
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