Local news outlets are blocking Internet Archive from preserving their journalism, erasing digital history as AI fears drive ...

Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with them.

McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.

This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving the internet through the Wayback Machine, which allows users to see how websites looked in the past.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The internet is ephemeral, with the average life of a web page – before it's changed or deleted – about 100 days. And so, the ...

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archives copies of websites every few weeks or months, going back to 1996. The Wayback Machine currently has almost 500 billion archived webpages. By entering a ...