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ALT Art deco-style poster for the Internet Archive’s Public Domain Film Contest 2027. Giant cream letters with red and green outlines spell “PUBLIC DOMAIN” across the top of a dark, grainy charcoal background. Below, Lockette, a yellow open padlock with human arms and legs, lounges in a director’s chair with legs crossed and red strappy heels, holding a red megaphone. A cream and teal beam of light, like a projector beam, extends to the right, with “FILM CONTEST” in bold red letters, and “2027” in tilted gray numerals beneath it. The Internet Archive logo sits in the lower left. Lockette illustration by Freya Morgan.

ALT A vintage-style postcard design with an orange border and a faded photograph of a grand neoclassical library building in the background. Large, tilted navy-blue lettering filled with images of computer servers reads “WAYBACK,” with teal, red, and yellow retro stripes beneath each letter. Smaller script lettering in the upper left reads “Greetings from.”

ALT Three-panel banner for “Remix Culture and the Stories We Share,” November 12th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, online. Left: the title, headshots of the three speakers (Meredith Rose of Public Knowledge, Alec Robbins and Liz Gotauco) and a collage with a pink classical bust and a disc. Middle: event details, a short description about remixing the public domain, and Internet Archive and Authors Alliance logos. Right: a retro-futuristic illustration of a Steamboat Willie–style Mickey Mouse at a ship’s wheel among books, computers and a bust, above the Future Knowledge logo.

ALT Screenshot of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine displaying the original 1998 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time website at zelda64.com. The bright yellow and blue homepage features the Zelda logo, fantasy artwork of Link riding a horse, and navigation links including Ocarina Legend, Hyrule News, Adventure Strategy, Legends of Zelda, Village Square, and Treasure Chest. A link invites visitors to buy the Player’s Guide online. The Wayback Machine toolbar shows the site captured on December 12, 1998.

ALT Two stacked screenshots. The top has a sage green background, the yellow title “Exploring Seed Catalogs at the Internet Archive,” and rows of vintage seed catalog covers labeled Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables. The bottom has a black background and white text reading “Proposition: That the American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro,” with video stills, portraits, book covers and web pages about the 1965 Baldwin and Buckley debate.

ALT Greenish-black graphic for the Vanishing Culture series with the headline 'Could your attic hold the most important film footage no one's ever seen?' and a quote from Rick Prelinger, Archivist and Filmmaker: 'Most still live with the families that made them ... all vulnerable to deterioration.' A column of pixels dissolves beside the quote.

ALT Light green-gray graphic quoting Rick Prelinger, Archivist and filmmaker, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote 'Of all films, home movies are the closest to our hearts, the most charismatic, the most fascinating—and they are in the greatest jeopardy.' Pixelated greenish-black bars sit above and below the text.

ALT Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

ALT Image with a banner at the top that reads: “Wayback Machine” alongside an Internet Archive logo. Below is the word “NOW” with a red arrow pointing down to a Wayback Machine capture of the CBC web page from November 2, 2026. Below that is the domain name “CBC.CA”.

ALT Brewster Kahle, with gray hair and glasses, wearing a gray blazer, holds a microphone as he gestures while speaking in a warehouse aisle. A group of visitors stands along a wall of stacked shipping containers, listening.

ALT Internet Archive logo beside the Better World Books logo, a blue-to-green winged book icon above the text "Better World Books," on a mustard-yellow background.

ALT Dark green graphic with the quote "The Wayback Machine has become collateral damage in a fight between publishers and AI companies." Attributed to Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Internet Archive. Internet Archive logo at bottom right.

ALT Black graphic with a cream banner reading "Welcome to The PUBLIC DOMAIN" in red script and black block letters. Below, a black-and-white 1930 Vogue photograph by Edward Steichen shows model Marion Morehouse in a Madeleine Vionnet dress with a pale, puff-sleeved wrap top and long dark skirt. Caption: "Fashion for Vogue (1930)." At bottom, the "Lockette," an animated yellow padlock character by Freya Morgan, its shackle open, strikes a pose on white cartoon legs and red heels.

ALT Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" then "Genie.com". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Genie Online Service website from November 28, 1996, and a current view showing the site is no longer available, represented by a pixel-art frowning face on a teal background.

ALT Three-panel graphic. Left: The Future of the Library of Congress, with portraits of a smiling woman and man captioned Kate Zwaard, CNI, and Blake Reid, Colorado Law, beside a collage of a pink bust, a disc, and a mainframe. Center: October 29th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, ONLINE, event details, and Internet Archive and Authors Alliance logos. Right: retro-futuristic art with a vintage cartoon mouse at a ship’s wheel and the words Future Knowledge.