The Print Shop (Broderbund) : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive The Print Shop is a basic desktop publishing software package developed in the early 1980s by Brøderbund. It was unique in that it provided libraries of...

Relive those memories: archive.org/details/The_...

Berlin at night along the Spree river.

Some of the organizers of DWeb Camp from Alte Hölle, Department of Decentralization and the Internet Archive came together at c-base in February to plan for July.

Franzi and Marv, two of the stewards of the Alte Holle Collective, share the terrain of the 100,000 sq. meters retreat site.

How do you build a better, more decentralized web? 🌐

In Berlin, technologists, artists, and organizers are coming together to co-create #DWeb Camp 2026—rethinking the internet from the ground up.

Learn more: blog.archive.org/2026/04/02/h...

@getdweb.net @dod.ngo @InternetArchive.EU #BerlinTech

In THE APPLE II AGE, first encounters with computers for millions via a software ecosystem including The Print Shop & early games.

On the Future Knowledge #podcast, historian @LaineNooney.bsky.social explores its lasting cultural impact .

🎧 Listen ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/the-apple-ii...

🐣 It's Easter Monday.

A holiday for family, outings & music in many countries.

🎶 See this 🇨🇦 1899 "Festival of the Lilies" program, preserved in the collections of the Internet Archive 👇
archive.org/details/fest...

@internetarchiveca.bsky.social @InternetArchive.EU

Running an old copy of The Print Shop on my grade school Apple II was where I discovered that graphic design was my passion- along with the joy of Carmen Sandiego and Facemaker

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, LADIES OF LEISURE (1930).

#OTD 1930, Barbara Stanwyck broke out in a star-making role under Frank Capra. 🎬

🎭 Her raw, naturalistic performance helped redefine screen acting in the talkies.

Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/ladi...

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "Marshmallowpeeps.com" and "Peepsbrand.com". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Peeps website from March 3, 2000, and March 7, 2026.

🐥 #Peeps marshmallow chicks have been around for 73 years! 🤯

Their official website's decades old, but tracing its changing domains is like an Easter egg hunt through web history.

Take a "peep" into the colorful past of your favorite sites with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org

#Easter

🌐 Learn all about this and all the other works created for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions ⤵️
blog.archive.org/internet-arc...

Jesse Walton’s "1,000,000,000,000" visualizes one trillion archived pages using a custom "2x4 font" to show scale.

This text-based sculpture reflects how today’s art can become tomorrow’s artifacts.
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#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine @GrayArea.org

Poster for "No Place to Grow Old" documentary screening on April 22, 6pm. Shows an outdoor shelter made of tarps and salvaged materials. Free event with panel discussion hosted by League of Women Voters SF and other organizations.

The housing crisis doesn't spare older adults. In fact, for many seniors it's getting worse.

RSVP for a free screening of "No Place to Grow Old" and stay for a panel Q&A with community advocates.

📅 April 22
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM / 🕕 6 PM
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ luma.com/lrtq1eg5

Future Knowledge | The Apple II Age In The Apple II Age, historian Laine Nooney tells the story of the computer that helped launch Apple, and reshape personal computing. Introduced in 1977, the Apple II became a cultural phenomenon n...

Yes! We hosted a conversation with @lainenooney.bsky.social about the book: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

i'll take this moment to shout out @lainenooney.bsky.social's book, the apple II age, which does an incredible job of locating the print shop's role in personal computing histories :) a great read, for the scant few who follow me who have not yet read it

Yes, celebrate software preservation!

Snapshots of the newspaper L'Ami du Peuple in the collection of the Internet Archive Canada.

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These digitized newspapers reveal the voices & histories of Jewish Canadian, Japanese Canadian & Franco-Ontarian communities. Perfect for scholars, educators & anyone exploring Canada’s multicultural past 🗂️📖

@MsAndreaMills

Cover of The New Canadian, 1953-02-18: Vol 16 Issue 1

🇨🇦 Discover Canada’s immigrant & ethnic histories 🗂️

@InternetArcCA & the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario are making newspapers like Canadian Jewish Review, The New Canadian & L’Ami du Peuple freely accessible.

Read more ⤵️
internetarchivecanada.org/2026/03/31/p...

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Kay Savetz poses with some of the seven pallets of Bob Cooper’s material.

Even fragile and nearly lost materials are being digitized and saved for the future. 🧠💾

If it’s radio-related, it belongs here, and you can help grow the archive too. 📡

Learn more ⤵️
www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

Survey conducted by KSFS at San Francisco State University in March 1982.

The collection is a deep, searchable rabbit hole of radio history, research, and culture. 🔎📡

From early 1900s publications to college radio playlists and ham conference recordings, it’s all preserved and easy to explore. 🎙️📜

DLARC logo alongside one of the approximately 150 searchable callbooks that are part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications.

Cassettes from the series “Ham Radio and More” digitized as part of DLARC.

A QSL card for the University of Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Club station W3ABT circa 1935, digitized as part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications

DLARC: The Radio Geek’s Doomscrolling Antidote 📻🌀

The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications brings together 225,000+ items, from magazines and QSL cards to audio & video, all free via the #InternetArchive. 📚💿

Tune in ⤵️
www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

#AmateurRadio #RadioHistory

Congrats to "SEEING YOU IN DREAMS" by @numb-dame-band.bsky.social , a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬

"A sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer." A lyrical & intimate journey.

Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/seei...

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

Two Colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces : Hunton, Addie W., b. 1866 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 256 p. 19 cm

Amazing! Full book is here: archive.org/details/twoc...

Researching US Black women's involvement in WWI, reading Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson's account of their time supporting Black soldiers in France ...

Sometimes @archive.org gives you any old scanned version of a book, and sometimes ... it belonged to W.E.B. Du Bois??

#archives #Blackhistory

New Future Knowledge episode just dropped.

I love learning about retro tech

Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1951 #filmstrip teaches transitive verbs and direct objects and has great mid-century art.

VIEW AT YOUR OWN PACE: https://uncom.cc/dnona

On Apple’s 50th anniversary, the Future Knowledge #podcast presents THE APPLE II AGE 🍎

Historians @LaineNooney.bsky.social & Finn Brunton explore how software made the Apple II a cultural phenomenon.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/the-apple-ii...

#Apple #Apple50 #AppleII

I am this old. *grooves out to dot matrix printer*

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario!
Explore a growing collection of historical newspapers documenting the lived experiences of immigrant and racialized communities across Canada.
internetarchivecanada.org/2026/03/31/p...

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Chaney stars as a master of disguise leading a trio of circus performers-turned-criminals 🎭. As versatile with his voice as his body, he plays Professor Echo, the ventriloquist, performs the dummy’s voice, the parrot, a girl, and also disguises himself as the elderly Mrs. O’Grady.

#silentfilm

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE UNHOLY THREE (1930)

On April 1, we celebrate the birth of Lon Chaney, the Man of a Thousand Faces with his only sound film. 🎙️ Tragically, he died shortly after its release.

Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/theu...

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#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

the death of continuous feed dot matrix printers stole banners from us

🐦🔍 #OTD 2002 Google revealed the secret of its search ranking tech: pigeons.

#AprilFools! PigeonRank™ claimed queries were sent to a “data coop,” where flocks ranked pages in true pecking order.

See it on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
web.archive.org/web/20020401...

#WebNostalgia #InternetHistory