Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publ…
“Chinatown, My Chinatown” by Kevin Sun & Christian Li 🎷 reclaims a familiar early 20th-century song through a contemporary lens 🎶 By incorporating the original lyrics, this song engages directly with …
Happy Birthday Dorothy Hodgkin! "I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things." The …
On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family Deborah Lutz Considers the Impact of a Brother’s Absence https://lithub.com/on-the-death-of-branwell-bronte-and…
The Golden Bough is a fantastical object in the Aeneid, an epic poem by the 1st century BCE Roman poet Virgil. The Trojan hero Aeneas is tasked to find the bough and remove it from its host tree to pr…
Growling in a corner: Samuel Johnson’s lost years by Henry Oliver https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/growling-in-a-corner-samuel-johnsons Samuel Johnson at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/29…
News organizations are increasingly blocking the #WaybackMachine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, @mark, Director of the Wayback Machine at the #Int…
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Best Dressed: eBay Where the outfit and the backstory come with it. Vintage, rare, unforgettable…just like the early web. Se…
Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor On the three-hundredth anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift’s satire of his own society is remarkably relevant. By Henry Oliver https://www.plough.com/en/topics/c…
#OTD in 1926, C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien meet for the first time. https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-may-11-2026/ At PG: Lewis: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/782 Tolkien https://www.guten…
Hokusai’s Manga, 1814-1878 – 15 Books of Everything In 1811, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika began work on his Hokusai Manga (curious drawings) and various etehon By Sheldon D. https://flashbak.com…
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Most Likely to Fix Your Computer: CNET Before YouTube tutorials, there was CNET, walking you through every crash, install & …
Happy Mother’s Day — may your day be full of flowers. 🌷🌹🥀🌸🌼🪻📷🌻🌺 From the book in our collection 👉 La plante et ses applications ornementales (Plants and Their Ornamental Uses) by Eugène Grasset and M.…
💐 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY 💐 💖 Celebrate with a GifCities GifGram, filled with blooming, sparkling, love-soaked GIFs from the early web. Send it to someone special or create your own custom GIF greeting for…
Researchers Just Used A.I. To Reconstruct The Face Of A Pompeii Victim For The First Time Ever By Kaleena Fraga The man died shortly after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., which destroyed th…
Accessibility Requirements at Project Gutenberg Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act requires that government funded institutions in the US must adapt their websites and electronic resource…
The Genius Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night Over the Rhône” Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhône is one of his lesser-known masterpieces that unveils his artistic genius through its depiction…
How Dante's Inferno modeled a planetary impact 500 years before modern science edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan https://phys.org/news/2026-05-dante-inferno-planetary-impact-years.html T…
Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism and s…
7 Engineering Marvels of the Colosseum That Still Baffle Architects A symbol of the grandeur of Rome, the Colosseum was built with many architectural considerations. https://picryl.com/media/colosseum…
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