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She had beauty and brains, a great combination. Hedy Lamarr was far more than a Hollywood star. She was a pioneering inventor whose ideas helped lay the foundations for modern wireless technology. Her life bridges glamour, wartime innovation, scientific brilliance, and a legacy that took decades to be acknowledged.
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Wayback Machine Stats
498 million pages captured per day
800,000 viewers per day
1,250+ libraries and partner organizations creating collections through Archive-IT
Cultural & Historical Highlights
Earliest archived pages
Web Archive 96
Web Archive 96 was a project of the Internet Archive & Smithsonian Institution to archive websites associated with the 1996 U.S. presidential election.
Web Archive 96 is available via the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/19971011050541/http://www.archive.org/smith…
Press release from Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (March 7, 1996).
Early writings about web archiving:
“Preserving the Internet” by Brewster Kahle in Scientific American (written & submitted in 1996, published in 1997).
Examples of important defunct sites preserved:
MTV News - Link
Spangler, Todd. “MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline” Variety, June 24, 2024.
Alex, Michael. “The Disappearance of MTV News’ Online Archive Is a Tragedy: Guest Post by the Website’s Founding Editor” Variety, June 27, 2024.
Graham, Mark. “New Ways to Search Archived Music News” Internet Archive Blog, July 10, 2024.
Alex, Michael. “MTV News and the Wayback Machine (video)” YouTube, October 21, 2024.
Gawker - Link
Matsakis, Louise. “The Gawker Archives Aren't Going Anywhere” Wired, January 31, 2018.
End of Term Web Archive - Link
Lucas, Julian. “The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge,” The New Yorker, March 14, 2025.
Hsu, Tiffany. “The White House frames the past by erasing parts of it,” The New York Times, April 5, 2025.
Examples of important pages that would be lost except for the Wayback Machine:
CNN: "After a backlash, National Park Service restores old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman"
Impact Stories
Canadian Musician Relies on Wayback Machine for Immigration Documentation: https://blog.archive.org/2023/06/26/canadian-musician-utilizes-wayback-…
When Canadian violist David Samuel applied for U.S. permanent residency under the “extraordinary ability” category, he relied on the Wayback Machine to recover evidence of his international music career. By accessing archived concert programs and web postings, he was able to document his accomplishments and build a stronger case, calling the Wayback Machine “an important tool” in the process.
Love, Loss, and Archives: https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/19/love-loss-and-archives/
When Paul Lindner lost his wife Julie to cancer, he turned to the Internet Archive to help preserve her memory. By recovering emails, Usenet posts, music, and websites through the Wayback Machine and other archival tools, Paul built a rich memorial site that captures Julie’s humor, passions, and digital life—ensuring her memory would endure.
From Fake News to Open Data: Studying the Histories of Digital Media Using the Wayback Machine: https://blog.archive.org/2023/10/09/from-fake-news-to-open-data-studyin…
Researchers Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray of King’s College London use the Wayback Machine to study the evolution of digital media, from fake news monetization strategies to the politics of open data. Their investigations have supported international journalism collaborations, informed public policy research, and equipped students with tools to trace how the web—and society—has changed over time. As Bounegru puts it: “It is an essential tool for our research.”
The Wayback Machine’s Vital Role in Investigative Work: https://blog.archive.org/2023/07/10/preserving-the-past-empowering-the-…
Laura Ranca of Tactical Tech’s Exposing the Invisible project calls the Wayback Machine “a precious tool” in her work training journalists and researchers to investigate and preserve digital evidence. From uncovering altered or deleted web pages to retrieving decades-old government reports, the Wayback Machine empowers investigators to hold power to account and protect knowledge for future generations.
In April of 1970, the National Archives accessioned its first electronic records: data from computer punch cards.
Their holdings of federal records, not including electronic holdings in the Presidential Libraries, include over 100 terabytes of electronic records and another 100 terabytes of born-digital photography and motion pictures.
They accept more than 60 types of electronic records and file formats, ranging from email to webpages to geospatial data records to meeting presentations.
The infamous audio recording studio perfectionists are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan. They are music maestros.
I am so disappointed that I was considering burning my Federal Communications Commission license when I read this news.
I had to study hard to pass my FCC license test when I was much younger. Now, the court has cut its wings to fly like an eagle.
A federal appeals court dealt a fatal blow to the Federal Communications Commission’s decade-plus effort to gain stronger oversight over the Internet. Tech billionaires win. All humanity, especially children lose. So sad
Federal Court Strikes a Final Blow to FCC’s Net-Neutrality Rules
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Just in time for turkey-day, MSNBC is reportedly watching their ratings crumple following GOP's Election Day’s razor thin victory.
The cable network’s audience keeps shrinking while Fox News is the only cable channel showing post-election growth.
At least dozens are dead and thousands injured in Lebanon in an attacks targeting the pagers and walk-in talkies of Hezbollah members, the Lebanese health ministry says.
Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager explosions across Lebanon
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-woun…
Global IT outages have been reported raising the warning sign and alarming many sectors affected on the World Wide Web.
The AP says a global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air.
It was a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers.