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This October, we are publishing The Vanishing Culture Report, a new open access report examining the power and importance of preservation in our digital age.  As more content is created

https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/08/coming-this-october-the-vanishing-culture-report/

Patrons come to the Internet Archive’s software collections for many reasons, and among the major reasons are some manner of playing historical software in our in-browser emulation environment....

https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/02/the-easy-roll-and-slow-burn-of-cassette-based-software/

To celebrate National Library Week 2022, we are taking readers behind the scenes to Meet the Librarians who work at the Internet Archive and in associated programs. Alexis Rossi has always love...

https://blog.archive.org/2022/04/13/meet-the-librarians-alexis-rossi-media-access/

Great news for everyone concerned about the Flash end of life planned for end of 2020: The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in our software

https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/

WE HAVE ONE SIMPLE REQUEST…. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LLAMA. Clicking on the Llama will release Webamp, a javascript-based player that mimics, down to individual strangeness and bugs, the operation...

https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/02/dont-click-on-the-llama/

The Internet Arcade, our collection of working arcade machines that run in the browser, has gotten a new upgrade in its 4th year. Advancements by both the MAME emulator team

https://blog.archive.org/2018/09/21/over-1100-new-arcade-machines-added-to-the-internet-arcade/

Jason Scott, free-range archivist, reporting in as 2017 draws to a close. As part of our end-of-year fundraising drive, I thought it might be fun to tweet highlighted parts of

https://blog.archive.org/2017/12/30/30-days-of-stuff/

The Internet Archive’s emulated Early Mac collection, which was announced last week, has had all its content screenshotted by hand for maximum visual beauty and accuracy. Normally, we utilize a...

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/25/macintosh-collection-hand-screenshotted-plus-hypercard/

After offering in-browser emulation of console games, arcade machines, and a range of other home computers, the Internet Archive can now emulate the early models of the Apple Macintosh, the

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/16/early-macintosh-emulation-comes-to-the-archive/

Jason Scott, Software Curator and Your Emulation Buddy, writing in. With tens of thousands of items in the archive.org stacks that are in some way running in-browser emulations, we’ve got a

https://blog.archive.org/2016/06/27/those-hilarious-times-when-emulations-stop-working/