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textfiles, 4 days ago to random

Facts (from our donor comment channel)

textfiles, 7 days ago to random

One of my projects was mirroring the OAPEN (Open-Access Materials) library collection, and all the ones it made sense to, I have, with over 28,000 books and 4,800 chapters from journals. It still has some metadata settling to do, but go enjoy them:

https://archive.org/details/oapen-library

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textfiles, 7 days ago to random

The Gofundme was a success! The tapes will now be digitized. Turns out they ARE the master tapes, lost from an unpaid storage locker. The hunt is on for more...

textfiles, 8 days ago to random

Kay Savetz took a leap of faith and bought dozens of master tapes for a lost radio show, with one of a kind interviews on them. He's seeking funds to pay a professional to digitize the tapes, and they all go on Internet Archive.

Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, MacPaint’s Bill Atkinson, Infocom’s Joel Berez, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, musician Herbie Hancock, EA’s Trip Hawkins, Stewart Brand... they're all on here.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe

Let's just fund this and move on.

textfiles, 9 days ago to random

The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/01/the-backrooms-of-the-internet-archive/

textfiles, 13 days ago to random

A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.)

So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons

textfiles, 14 days ago to random

Every time the Internet Archive goes down, a rash of tweets talk about how "they" got to it, and in doing so, demonstrate the need for a functioning Internet Archive

grahamperrin, 17 days ago to AdobePhotoshop

Internet Archive Stands Firm on Library Digital Rights in Final Brief of Hachette v. Internet Archive Lawsuit

https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/internet-archive-stands-firm-on-library-digital-rights-in-final-brief-of-hachette-v-internet-archive-lawsuit/

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Wayback #Hachette #library #digital #rights

textfiles, 22 days ago to random

A hand-made Russian manual for a Canon Navigator? YES PLEASE

https://archive.org/details/canon-navigator-manual-rus

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textfiles, 22 days ago to random

Busily spending part of my weekend enjoying one aspect of my job at the Archive - sorting through uploads of a certain type - in this case, anything calling itself a "Manual". There are hundreds of people uploading a single manual for the most obscure of things, and the style and breadth is amazing.

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textfiles, 24 days ago to random

Another lovely day working for the Internet Archive

textfiles, 27 days ago to random

Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver HQ, is a great place to have events, and it now does on the regular.