🎬 William Webb earned an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest for HOFFMANN’S HONEYMOON. 🌙 His film blends 1920s home movies with early Hollywood audio, celebrating the quirks of everyday life. Show us how YOU can remix the public domain of 1930 in the 2026 contest. Open now! 📆 Deadline: Jan 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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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, the first appearance of Betty Boop 🔍 The first 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🤡 Animal Crackers 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🎥 Creators: Enter the Public Domain Film Remix Contest 💻️ Virtual Party: Jan 21st @ 10am PT 🎟️ Film Screening: Jan 21st @ 6pm PT Learn more:
Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive: 2026 | Internet Archive Blogs
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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! @Internet Archive Europe 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 ➡️
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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. @Brewster Kahle 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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