Comments for Internet Archive Blogs

Comment on Building the Hero Award: The Story Behind Taekyeom Lee’s 3D-Printed Model of the Internet Archive by Adelaide Dupont

Adelaide Dupont — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:18:23 +0000

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“It’s a trophy, but at the same time it’s the library itself,” Lee said.

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Lee’s sensitivity to the haptic possibilities of archival work is really inspiring around here.

It also makes the Hero[es] extra moving in anticipation.

And the retinal detachment.

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Ellie Kesselman

Ellie Kesselman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:51:02 +0000

In reply to T.

I have that impression too. Some websites get relentlessly ddos’d by scraper bots.

Then there are resident proxy networks. Just learned about them. They subvert consumer devices to make them a network node for AI scrapers. The FBI warned about it in July.

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Ellie Kesselman

Ellie Kesselman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:38:35 +0000

In reply to larry.

LLM scraping seems a lot more likely to me. If so, it is really sad. They have plenty of other training material and websites to scrape: no need to do it so abusively to IA, a service that does is so helpful for so many people.

Everyone, including Donald Trump’s administration, values the archival records provided by Brewster Kahle and IA.
P.S. Mark Graham, thanks for fixing it so we don’t get the 429 error when logged in! That was considerate of you.

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:06:29 +0000

Just want to encourage all your work and will be patient!!!

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Evert van Ingen

Evert van Ingen — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:00:38 +0000

Thank you very much for this update

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Patrick Kuhlman

Patrick Kuhlman — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:16:06 +0000

I truly would like to thank you for all of your guy’s work. The archives worth is priceless and I can’t even begin to show my depth of gratitude

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Lucas Gabriel Miguel

Lucas Gabriel Miguel — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:44:49 +0000

Thanks for the update and for working to improve access for legitimate Wayback Machine users.

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Lydia McGrew

Lydia McGrew — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:21:02 +0000

I’m trying to figure out what is going on with Open Library. During the last few days, there will be long periods when you can get to search results, but whenever you click on one of the search results to try to go to a book and borrow it, you get only a black screen. What’s the deal with that? It doesn’t appear to be my Internet connection. Everything else is working. Is this somehow related to the Wayback Machine problem?

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by Tomy Power

Tomy Power — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:54:11 +0000

Fix the website test

Comment on An Update on Wayback Machine Access by John

John — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:52:02 +0000

https://archive.org/details/instructionbooka0000easy why can i not access this it worked earlier today

I go on all the books. None work. There is a blank.

Please reply to me and explain why this happened. Please reply to me.

My e-mail address is nfterno@aol.com

John Politis