When Union forces retreated, soldiers and civilians fled together in panic, clogging roads and worsening the rout. The event ...

Should a linked web page go offline, the new feature will then redirect readers to the archived versions, so that there is no drop in service. The tool also archives a user's own posts, helping to ...

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...

Below is an excerpt of my conversation with Samuel, edited for length and clarity. You can listen to the full episode on ...

How Negro History Week, founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1926, evolved into today’s nationally recognized Black History Month.

The Computer History Museum, based in Mountain View, California, looks like a fine way to spend an afternoon for anyone ...

Though we sometimes imagine websites as floating around in the ether, we typically picture their physical forms as banks of servers. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive, one of the most regularly visited ...

The Internet Archive, also known as the Wayback Machine, is generally regarded as a place to view old web pages, but its value goes far beyond reviewing old pages. There are five ways that Archive.org ...

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

Uh-oh, Internet! A new report from Nieman Lab (via Gizmodo) reveals that there was a steep decline in snapshots collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine beginning in May of this year. Of ...

Following the Sept. 10, 2025, fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the administration of President Donald Trump threatened to crack down on the "radical left," including by ...