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 ⤵️
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Home Movie: 096556 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Festive fall and winter family days in the 1950s filled with child-oriented activities including Halloween costumes and rituals, children playing i...
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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 ⤵️
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Sierra Christmas Card 1986: A Computer Christmas : Sierra On-Line : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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'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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'Twas the Night Before Christmas: Animated Musical Christmas Disk : PC Life Magazine : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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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 👉
2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You! | Internet Archive Blogs
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❄️ ’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 ➡️
Stitchting Internet Archive - NL
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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. ➡️
Top News Stories About the Internet Archive: 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs
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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 (@internetarchive), 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 ⤵️
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Future Knowledge | The Open Web at a Crossroads: A Conversation with Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, Cindy Cohn & Jon Stokes
What made the early web so thrilling, and how do we reclaim that spirit today? In this special episode, recorded at Georgetown University’s histo...
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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
The early web was driven by curiosity, openness, and play, not monetization. Creativity flourished because experimentation was encouraged. Creator Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture—and why preserving it still matters. Learn more ⤵️
The Joyful Chaos of the Early Web: A Conversation with Creator Audrey Witters | Internet Archive Blogs
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