Wayback Machine
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:51 am
“I knew in principle [the Physical Archive] existed. Every time I used the Internet Archive, my mind imagined something like this. Seeing it in reality is incredible.”
John Skinner, Wikipedian and party attendee
The Wayback Machine provides a nostalgia trip for Jen Osgood of Oakland, who likes to look up old blogs and websites from when she was in college. The Internet Archive is also a good resource for art projects, too, and one of the few places she can find old botanical illustrations, she said. Touring the physical archive, she said, gave her a new appreciation of the collection. “It’s an amazing wealth of knowledge,” she said.
John Skinner said he comes from a family of special database and works as a technologist creating websites so the event was an intersection of his interests. Spending much of his time editing Wikipedia pages, he said he frequently uses the Internet Archive for research and citations.
What was his impression of the physical archive? “It’s astonishing,” Skinner said. “I knew in principle it existed. Every time I used the Internet Archive, my mind imagined something like this. Seeing it in reality is incredible.”
Services Online:
-Save Page Now
openlibrary.org
archive-it.org
Vault
scholar.archive.org
Interlibrary loan via RapidILL, OCLC
archive.org services available:
-texts
-tv news search and borrow
-audio
-moving images
-software
-uploads
-web archiving
-access via API
More services & features coming online soon.
For latest updates, please check this blog and our official social media accounts: X/Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon.
Thank you for your patience and ongoing support.
In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 9, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available.
John Skinner, Wikipedian and party attendee
The Wayback Machine provides a nostalgia trip for Jen Osgood of Oakland, who likes to look up old blogs and websites from when she was in college. The Internet Archive is also a good resource for art projects, too, and one of the few places she can find old botanical illustrations, she said. Touring the physical archive, she said, gave her a new appreciation of the collection. “It’s an amazing wealth of knowledge,” she said.
John Skinner said he comes from a family of special database and works as a technologist creating websites so the event was an intersection of his interests. Spending much of his time editing Wikipedia pages, he said he frequently uses the Internet Archive for research and citations.
What was his impression of the physical archive? “It’s astonishing,” Skinner said. “I knew in principle it existed. Every time I used the Internet Archive, my mind imagined something like this. Seeing it in reality is incredible.”
Services Online:
-Save Page Now
openlibrary.org
archive-it.org
Vault
scholar.archive.org
Interlibrary loan via RapidILL, OCLC
archive.org services available:
-texts
-tv news search and borrow
-audio
-moving images
-software
-uploads
-web archiving
-access via API
More services & features coming online soon.
For latest updates, please check this blog and our official social media accounts: X/Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon.
Thank you for your patience and ongoing support.
In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 9, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available.