News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...
Mission Local

At the Internet Archive, employees stay forever — in clay sculptures

Nuala Creed, the artist behind a collection of ceramic sculptures of archivists, sits next to her works in the Great Room of the Internet Archive. Photo by Junyao Yang on Jan. 7, 2025. The Great Room ...
Wired

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself

If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle.