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Closing the Book on 2025: A Landmark Year for the Internet Archive

As 2025 comes to an end, the Internet Archive is marking a year filled with milestones in preserving the world’s digital memory. From hitting one trillion archived web pages to expanding access to government information and cultural collections, its work this year shows how vital long‑term digital preservation has become.archive+1​

A Trillion Snapshots of the Web

This year, the Wayback Machine crossed the extraordinary threshold of archiving one trillion web pages, making it the largest publicly accessible record of the web’s history. Those snapshots are more than statistics; they capture news, personal sites, and disappearing pages that researchers, journalists, lawyers, and everyday users rely on to recover lost information and document how the online world changes over time.wikipedia+3​

Since 1996, the Internet Archive has partnered with libraries and institutions worldwide to build this shared digital library, preserving everything from early personal homepages to modern government and news sites.techradar+1​

Joining the Federal Depository Library Network

In 2025, the Internet Archive was formally designated as a U.S. federal depository library, becoming part of a nationwide network that helps preserve and provide public access to government publications. Senator Alex Padilla highlighted that its digital‑first model makes it especially well-suited to expanding access to federal documents in an age when most information is born digital.bleepingcomputer+1​

This designation strengthens the Archive’s ability to collect, preserve, and share government materials so that citizens, researchers, and students can more easily find authoritative public information online.archive+1​

Capturing Democracy in Transition

Every four years, the Internet Archive works with libraries and research organizations to preserve federal government websites during presidential transitions through the End of Term Web Archive project. The 2024–2025 crawl has already gathered more than 500 terabytes of data and over 100 million unique web pages, documenting how agencies, policies, and public information evolve as administrations change.archive+1​

These collections help maintain a historical record of government activity, supporting accountability and long‑term research on topics such as climate policy, public health, and digital communications.wikipedia+1​

Building “Democracy’s Library”

To make public information easier to find and use, the Internet Archive is developing Democracy’s Library, a free online collection of government research and publications from around the world. In 2025, the project expanded its U.S. holdings, working with libraries, archives, and civic organizations to gather and organize reports, datasets, and other publicly funded materials in one open, searchable space.bleepingcomputer+1​

The goal is simple but ambitious: ensure that vital public information remains freely available, not locked behind paywalls or lost when websites change.archive+1​

Expanding in Europe

Looking ahead, the Internet Archive is deepening its collaboration with Internet Archive Europe, a partner organization based in the Netherlands that has worked with European libraries and government agencies since 2004. Together, they focus on preserving European web content and digital collections, increasingly using artificial intelligence and other tools to improve discovery and access.techradar​

This transatlantic work helps protect cultural heritage and public records that might otherwise be scattered across servers or vanish as technologies and platforms age.techradar​

New Collections, New Windows into History

Beyond large‑scale web preservation, 2025 also saw the addition of many special collections that open new windows into cultural and institutional history. These include archives of software and creative work from individual developers, long‑running youth and community programs, and historic popular literature.webpronews+1​

Each of these collections, whether focused on a single creator or a century‑old organization, shows how digital libraries can illuminate the past in ways that traditional collections alone cannot.webpronews+1​

A Community‑Powered Library for Everyone

None of this work happens in isolation. The Internet Archive’s strength lies in a global community of users, librarians, archivists, technologists, donors, and advocates who believe in “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Financial contributions, partnerships, and everyday use of the Archive’s tools all help sustain and grow this public resource.archive+3​

For those who want to support this mission—whether by donating, collaborating on collections, or simply using and sharing the Archive’s resources—2025 has shown just how much impact a community‑driven digital library can have.archive+1​

1. https://blog.archive.org/trillion/
2. https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/update-on-the-2024-2025-end-of-term-web-archive/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine
4. https://www.webpronews.com/internet-archives-wayback-machine-archives-1-trillion-web-pages/
5. 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
6. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/internet-archive-is-now-a-us-federal-depository-library/
7. https://blog.archive.org/2025/07/24/internet-archive-designated-as-a-federal-depository-library/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Term_Web_Archive
9. http://web.archive.org
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7clcQ-boEw

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📅 Onboarding Timeline Tracker

- Trello or Asana templates for onboarding tasks.

✅ Residency Proof Checklist 

- State of Hawai‘i DMV residency requirements: Hawai‘i DMV Residency Proof

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• 💰 Budget: Rent + utilities + internet ≈ $1,200–$1,800/month

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• 🧪 Schedule TB testing (required for many jobs/schools)
• 🏥 Obtain health clearance from a local clinic
• 🗂 Gather employment eligibility docs (passport, SS card, birth certificate)
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• 💰 Budget: TB test $20–$50; clearance visit $75–$150

🚗 Transportation

• 📝 Register car with Hawai‘i DMV (title, insurance, safety inspection)
• 🔧 Complete safety inspection at authorized station
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• 💰 Budget: Registration $50–$300; inspection ≈ $25; license ≈ $40

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• ✅ Book TB test before arrival to avoid job delays
• ✅ Register car within 30 days to avoid penalties
• ✅ Use relocation budget planner to prevent overspending
• ✅ Keep digital copies of all documents for faster onboarding

Day 1: Wake naturally, no alarm. Journal 5 minutes on gratitude.

Today, I woke up extremely thankful for my honey bunny for paying attention to me as I spoke in my sleep and dreamed of crazy scenarios and conversations. When I spoke, Averi would ask me, "What did you say?" This tells me how safe I really am.

I am grateful for waking up. I woke up knowing that today is a wonderful day. I will learn to enjoy and really focus on the good things in my life. I am happy with the food, waffles, chicken, and salad. I am glad that we have access to both potable and filtered water, as needed.

I want to thank my dad for telling me that the world is out there and that I should go out there and take it. In other words, he encouraged me to join in significant work. I am thankful to my mother, who always supports me, no matter what the situation is or even if the outcome is one of sacrifice; my mom is cool like that.

I am thankful for my sister and how she shares her son with me.

Gatekeepers: Arbitrary Obstacles

From the moment we are born, we are expected to learn how to crawl, walk, speak, and even communicate with our parents. Subsequently, we are compelled to communicate with strangers who ultimately become our friends and learn about our families.
Next, we are expected to study diligently, earn good grades, get a good job, and then work for 50 years to save enough for retirement, ideally reaching 90 years old and having lived a good life. But is this truly a good life? Why must we work for 50 years to enjoy the fruits of our labor? For most of our lives, we are working to help another person get rich. We work to make investors richer, or we work for a non-profit organization to make a better life for those less fortunate. After being laid off from a good job after 14.5 years, totaling 23 years of my life, I began to realize that this pathway is a deception. It is a scam to hold you back in life from achieving your true happiness.
As someone who has never been in need, I found myself requiring assistance. This assistance is at the mercy of lawmakers and administrators for each County in Hawaii. These lawmakers determine who gets the funds, but first, they must be elected into their respective positions. I am extremely thankful that there are funds that can help me to become healthy. In fact, since I stopped working, I am the healthiest I have ever been. With the help of Medicaid, I can now address all of my ailments that I could not navigate while working. With the constant need to please the organization, bosses, and coworkers, I found it difficult to get the help that I needed during work hours. I forfeited everything that my family wanted to do with me because I simply did not have vacation time for them, let alone myself. Moreover, because of the business need, it was extremely difficult to abandon the company for personal health.
You must be wondering why the topic of this post is "Gatekeepers." Everything that you do has steps to get there. Study hard because if you do not get good grades, then you will be prevented from getting a good job. This is not always true. Some of the richest men and women in the world do not have such an education. Therefore, this is an arbitrary gate that does not necessarily result in success. Then, you get the job of your dreams. Do you really have the job of your dreams, or are you working to further someone else's agenda and not your own? Here you can see a gate preventing you from pursuing your actual passion. Next, you will have to work at least 40 years minimum. If you don’t work that long, then your retirement will not be enough to live on after you retire. Here you can see these years are something that you need to complete to retire. Another blockage for you to fail in getting your retirement. My father worked 42 years before retiring, and he worked for two main companies. If he didn’t do this, he believes that he would not be able to provide for his family.
People justify this self-punishing behavior because this is all they know. They are sheep who are herded by the social construct of society. They think that this provides them with the accomplishments that define their existence, otherwise they remain nothing. The truth be told, we are born with innate knowledge, skills, attributes, and other skills that do not require us to pass through life like a maze with obstacles at every step, gates, stopping us from reaching our potential.

New Years Eve and New Years Day

Looking at these beautiful colors reminds me of the night we popped fireworks. In Hawaii, aerial fireworks remain illegal for the most part and we did not have those fireworks. As I was growing up, it was a tradition to have Red Devils or Duck brand firecrackers hung on a pole, preferably a telephone or electric pole, so we could ring in the new year. This year will be a year of growth for me. This year will be the year of no-holds-barred. In other words, I will not give up on my passion for anyone, anything, or any place. 

The beauty of last year stems from how last year fortified this year. It made this year a cakewalk and has helped us to prepare for the future of 2025. Noticeably, there are many people writing to me venting their biggest fears about transgender rights and how they affect the lgbtqia+ men and women as citizens. Although this is sort of the previous generations' Mission Objective, the issues sometimes do not overlap but in fact, make those from the 80s seem old but you are not really old. Gosh, my brain is turning off, let me rest for a little bit.

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