The web, it turns out, is a fragile place. Companies, governments, educational institutions, individuals and organizations put up and take down sites all the time. The problem is that the web has ...

Fifteen years after the release of the iPhone, it’s easy to overlook the role early innovators like Palm played in popularizing the smartphone. By the time HP unceremoniously shut down the company in ...

Flash's termination is set for the end of December this year. After that, the internet software will be technically dead, meaning that browsers will move past it, relying even more on alternatives ...

Back in the 1990s, America Online, Inc. (AOL) needed to spread the good word about the benefits of a home internet connection, and the company accomplished that task by distributing free trial CD-ROMs ...

The Internet Archive is facing another lawsuit over one of its conservation projects. Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and a handful of other music labels have filed a lawsuit against ...

One month to the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Library of Congress announced it had begun collecting a massive digital record comprising gigabytes and gigabytes of data culled from ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

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.

Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library. Notably, the appeals court’s ruling rejects the Internet Archive’s argument that its ...