Tucows closes its once-popular software download site

Posted on 22/01/2021 by Engadget

It was inevitable, really. In the early days of the internet, Tucows was known as a reliable place to find and download new software. Today, however, most people are happy to use a modern App Store — Microsoft and Apple both run their own — or naviga...

The Internet Archive now has better scans of Computerworld magazine

Posted on 31/12/2020 by Engadget

The Internet Archive announced that it has made Computerworld’s print issues from 1967-2014 available online in better quality than ever. The publication provides a historical record of sorts for computing, as it launched during a key period in the i...

Flash content like Homestar Runner lives on in the Internet Archive

Posted on 19/11/2020 by Engadget

Mere weeks before Adobe’s planned end of support date for Flash, the Internet Archive has come in to save everyone’s favorite mid-aughts plugin and the creative content that came out of it. Over on its website, the organization has created a new coll...

Internet Archive adds fact checks to explain web page takedowns

Posted on 01/11/2020 by Engadget

Fact checking is increasingly a mainstay of the modern internet, and that now includes ‘dead’ web pages. The Internet Archive has started adding fact checks and context to Wayback Machine pages to explain just why they were removed. If a page was par...

The Wayback Machine and Cloudflare team up to keep websites online

Posted on 18/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The saying goes, “the internet is forever.” Now, the Wayback Machine and Cloudflare are doing their part to strengthen that adage. The two are joining forces to ensure more web pages are archived, according to a post on the Internet Archive blog.The...

Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy

Posted on 01/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

When libraries around the US began closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) responded by creating a “National Emergency Library,” a collection of 1.4 million books from its free e-book repository Open Library. Pu...

Wikipedia references now include book previews hosted by the Internet Archive

Posted on 04/11/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Wikipedia is an incredible resource, but the accuracy of claims published on its pages is sometimes called into question. To improve the site's credibility and usability, the Internet Archive is working to make references easier to follow by linking...

After Math: Stand and Delivery

Posted on 20/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Things happened this week, such as Alphabet commencing commercial flights of its Wing drone delivery program in Christiansburg, Virginia. But they weren't the only tech corporation that decided to put things where they previously were not at speeds t...

Internet Archive adds 2,500 more DOS games to playable database

Posted on 16/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Since 2013, the underappreciated heroes at Internet Archive have been working diligently to preserve old and abandoned PC games. In 2015, the organization started hosting 2,400 DOS games, allowing you to play cult classics like Gods and Tongue of the...

Internet Archive races to preserve public Google+ posts

Posted on 18/03/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Just because Google+ is shutting down on April 2nd doesn't mean your years of social posts will be lost in the void. The ArchiveTeam recently started caching public Google+ content to make it available on the Internet Archive after the fateful day....

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