Notices by Waxy.org (waxy@xoxo.zone)

500,000 books removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library after publisher lawsuit: ebook licensing for libraries continues to be far too expensive and restrictive https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/

Archie, the internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running: a copy of the source code for the FTP search engine was found at the University of Warsaw in Poland https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/