Internet Archive
Digital library preserving web and media
Episodes
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#4748: Should You Upload That Old Manual?The legal gray area of crowdsourcing orphaned product manuals and what it means for preservation. -
#3234: Who Should Sponsor This Podcast? Open-Book EconomicsWe open the books on our AI-generated podcast: $200/month costs, 180K plays, zero sponsors. Who should we pitch? -
#1983: Why Your Digital Photos Are Slowly DisappearingPhysical paper from the 1700s is more durable than a Word doc from 1994. Here's why digital data is fragile and how archivists fight bit rot. -
#1981: The Brutal Triage of Saving Art in a War ZoneFrom bomb-proof vaults to empty frames, discover the high-stakes logistics of saving history under fire. -
#1776: The Sync Trap: Why Your Backup Isn't SafeIs your backup strategy a responsible habit or a full-blown compulsion? We explore the thin line between data safety and digital hoarding. -
#1176: Can AI Resurrect the Digital Tombstones in Our Archives?Stop saving "digital tombstones." Discover how AI and new scanning tech are turning static images into searchable, computable knowledge graphs. -
#741: The Fragile Web: Who Decides What We Remember?Explore how the Internet Archive saves the web, the legal battles threatening its future, and the rise of decentralized storage like Arweave. -
#714: The Billion-Year Backup: Escaping the Digital Dark AgeWill our digital legacy survive for billions of years? Explore the tech fighting the "Digital Dark Age," from lunar libraries to quartz glass.