News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?
- Written by Tai Neilson, Senior Lecturer in Media, Macquarie University
When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking.
The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of...







