Hi5 was an early social platform, launched in 2003. Mostly forgotten in the U.S., but big in Latin America & Southeast Asia with tens of millions of users around 2007–2008. Today it’s mostly social games & dating. The #WaybackMachine preserves the early web, from the famous to the forgotten. Use it to find your forgotten corners of the internet. ⤵️

Wayback Machine

#Wayback1T #Hi5 #DigitalHistory #SocialMediaHistory #Nostalgia

Today’s web is fragmented, paywalled & dominated by a few powerful platforms. Some of the internet’s founders & current leaders gathered to discuss how it can still be saved: “a game with many winners.” Learn more ⤵️

Internet Luminaries Unite to Defend the Open Web: “Let’s Have a Game with Many Winners” | Internet Archive Blogs

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From the Cleveland Museum of Art collection, these oil paintings capture autumn’s glow — forest paths, sunlit hills, & mountains brushed with color. A quiet reflection on the beauty of change. 🌄 View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, NY, After a Storm, 1838 by Thomas Cole 🌄 Autumn Scene in the Adirondacks, 1877 by William Hart 🌄 Autumn in the Catskills, 1873 by Jervis McEntee 🌄 The Golden Hour, 1865 by Samuel Palmer Each captures the atmosphere of the season. More ➡️

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Vancouver Public Library has been honoured by the City of Vancouver for an innovative digitization project in partnership with Internet Archive Canada. 🏆🇨🇦 Together, they’ve made thousands of rare & historical materials from British Columbia accessible online, preserving local heritage for future generations. 📚 Learn more ⤵️

Vancouver Public Library Honoured for Innovative Digitization Project with Internet Archive Canada – Internet Archive Canada

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What could a new court ruling mean for the future of Wikipedia? Authors Alliance ( @npub17kr5...p88t ) unpacks the surprising implications of the latest decision in Authors Guild v. OpenAI ⬇️

Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)

This is a guest post by Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory Unive...

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocols that built the Internet, celebrates the Internet Archive reaching 1 trillion pages & reflects on why preserving our digital history matters for generations to come. More ⤵️

Voices Celebrating 1 Trillion Pages: Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer | Internet Archive Blogs

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🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨 #CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. This talk explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next. Co-hosted with @npub17kr5...p88t 📆 Fri Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️

Book Talk: Enshittification with Cory Doctorow

🌐 From dial-up to a trillion pages, we’ve built a web worth remembering. Watch THE WEB WE’VE BUILT, a cinematic journey through our shared digital history & preserved pages in the Wayback Machine. Our web is a story of connection, creativity, and triumph. 🎬

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The Web We

The Web We

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Looking Back on Our Shared Digital History: “The Web We’ve Built” Mini-Doc | Internet Archive Blogs

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From the first web page to today’s sprawling internet, the web has reshaped how we live, learn & connect. 🌐 Hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee (@npub1rknc...cdxd) & @npub1ftlr...3e6s on the Future Knowledge #podcast discussing the web’s explosive growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come. 🎧 All episodes ⬇️

Future Knowledge

Future Knowledge | Building and Preserving the Web: A Conversation with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, chat with Lauren Goode of Wired about the...

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Autumn has arrived. 🍂 Listen to a reading of Robert Frost’s "Gathering Leaves" — a quiet meditation on raking, repetition, and the season’s small joys. 🍁 For more, hear New Hampshire, Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, read in full by LibriVox volunteers. 🎧

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New Hampshire - A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes : Robert Frost : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

LibriVox recording of New Hampshire - A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost. Read in English by volunteer readers.New Hampshire is a vo...

#poetry #autumn