🎃 Trick or treat!

💀 The @internetarchive is handing out vintage chills with THE SKELETON DANCE (1929), the bone-rattling classic cartoon where skeletons swing & sway till dawn! 🕺🦴

Fill your candy bag with it and other #PublicDomain goodies from our #SpookySeason Collection ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025[https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025]

#Halloween #DigitalHistory

🎃 Trick or treat!

💀 The @internetarchive is handing out vintage chills with THE SKELETON DANCE (1929), the bone-rattling classic cartoon where skeletons swing & sway till dawn! 🕺🦴

Fill your candy bag with it and other #PublicDomain goodies from our #SpookySeason Collection ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025[https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025]

#Halloween #DigitalHistory

💀 Get yourself ready for #Halloween by listening to this spooky tune. No lyrics… just lively blues with a xylophone that coffin-nails the "spooky-ooky" effect. 👻

🦇 Listen & unlock a cabinet of creepy curiosities—audio, video, & vintage #Halloween delights await in this #SpookySeason collection ⬇️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025[https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025]

#PublicDomain

🎃 On the eve of Halloween, lend an ear to a mischievous little ode to the Jack-o’-Lantern: who lives to glow, grin & give a fright (all in good fun).

💀 Then wander through more vintage frights & autumn delights in this #SpookySeason collection ⤵️
More spooky season ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025[https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025]

#PublicDomain [ https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/PublicDomain] #Halloween
[ https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/Halloween] #SpookySeason
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Creepy cartoon fun! 👻🎃
The @internetarchive is serving vintage chills. Today’s treat: THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1929), where #MickeyMouse faces a swarm of skeletons who make him play the organ — some animation recycled from THE SKELETON DANCE! 💀🐭

More spooky season ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025[https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025]

#PublicDomain #Halloween #SpookySeason

Monsters from an Edo era picture scroll. More examples at https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-bakemono-zukushi-monster-scroll-18th-19th-century/
(via Martin Knepper, via @wikimediafoundation Commons, via Damien Kempf)
#PublicDomain #EdoEra #Monsters

Creepy cartoon fun! 👻🎃
The @internetarchive is serving vintage chills. Today’s treat: THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1929), where #MickeyMouse faces a swarm of skeletons who make him play the organ — some animation recycled from THE SKELETON DANCE! 💀🐭

More spooky season ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025[https://archive.org/details/@sterling_dudley/lists/1/spooky-season-2025]

#PublicDomain #Halloween #SpookySeason

Wiki Loves #PublicDomain 2025 Has Begun — Let’s Celebrate Free Culture Together! - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/10/wiki-loves-public-domain-2025-has-begun-lets-celebrate-free-culture-together/ "It’s a quiet but powerful moment — when culture opens up and forgotten stories can find new life online." #pd

Wiki Loves #PublicDomain 2025 Has Begun — Let’s Celebrate Free Culture Together! - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/10/wiki-loves-public-domain-2025-has-begun-lets-celebrate-free-culture-together/ "It’s a quiet but powerful moment — when culture opens up and forgotten stories can find new life online." #pd

Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since

Internet Archive is still adding about 500 million pages a day

By Wayne Williams

https://www.techradar.com/pro/internet-archive-reaches-new-1-trillion-page-landmark-almost-30-years-after-it-started-backing-up-the-www-and-more-than-100-000tb-of-files-have-been-safeguarded-since

Well done @internetarchive !!

#publicdomain #CulturalHeritage

Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since

Internet Archive is still adding about 500 million pages a day

By Wayne Williams

https://www.techradar.com/pro/internet-archive-reaches-new-1-trillion-page-landmark-almost-30-years-after-it-started-backing-up-the-www-and-more-than-100-000tb-of-files-have-been-safeguarded-since

Well done @internetarchive !!

#publicdomain #CulturalHeritage

I've seen an AI parody of the Obama "Hope" poster going around featuring #PortlandFrog and I decided that I should make a non-AI version (left). This is also under #cc0 ( #publicdomain ) so feel free to use it however you wish.
#portlandfrogs #antifascist #antifa #amphifa #frog #frogs #poster #vector #portland

RetroStrange TV is now streaming!

24/7 science fiction and horror all October long

#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree

https://live.retrostrange.com

RetroStrange TV is now streaming!

24/7 science fiction and horror all October long

#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree

https://live.retrostrange.com

Tim Berners-Lee ( @timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."

But he adds:

"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."

#PublicDomain #OpenInfrastructure #Solid #Web