Festive 1950s holidays 🎄 From decorating the home & wrapping the gifts to Christmas morning delights for the kids 🎁🚂 🎞️ Carefully preserved #homemovies like this capture cozy fall & winter family moments, safeguarding these holiday memories for future generations. 👀 Full film ⤵️ #preservation #PrelingerArchives
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 8-bit #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required to stoke this very 1980s hearth. Thanks to software preservation, the flames are still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #8bit #SoftwarePreservation #ComputerHistory
'Twas the night before #Christmas… DOS-style 🎄💾 In 1987, PC Life Magazine gifted us with ’Twas the Night Before Christmas: Animated Musical Christmas Disk — a charmingly low-res, CGA 4-color holiday e-card. Animated poem, printable cards, a Letter to Santa app, and even a tile game 🎅🧩 Play it in your browser ⤵️
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🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open! 🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎼🎶🎭📚 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 #publicdomain #contest #filmmaking image
❄️ ’Tis the season for exploring the web’s past! @npub1933j...q89d has transformed millions of Dutch websites from the Wayback Machine into a festive, interactive Christmas mosaic. 🎄 More than just fun, it offers a new way to see the web & highlights the scale and value of digital collections. Try it yourself ➡️ @npub10nud...98vr #WebArchive #DigitalHeritage #WaybackMachine #InteractiveWeb #MerryWebmas image
2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts. From investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times to video features from the BBC and CNN, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/top-news-stories-about-the-internet-archive-2025/ image
The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed. @npub1ftlr...3e6s says people clearly want access to the internet’s past. Hear Kahle (@npub1umd6...wfr7), Vint Cerf (Google), Cindy Cohn (EFF) & Jon Stokes (Ars Technica) explore the past, present & future of the web on the Future Knowledge podcast. 🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️ #OpenWeb #podcast
Have yourself an 8-bitty little Christmas 🎄👾 🎶 Up On the Housetop was performed using two Atari 2600 consoles playing together in stereo 🤯 The full 2003 album celebrates classic retro platforms, including: Spectrum • NES • VIC-20 • Atari 2600 • Game Boy • C64 • Atari ST • X68000 ⬇️ Download The 8bits of Christmas by The 8bitpeoples #8Bit #Chiptune #RetroTech #ChristmasMusic