LineRecommendation for lovers of old photo and film material #prelingerarchive
#prelingerarchive #oldphotos #catsofpixelfed #catcontent #catlover
#prelingerarchive #oldphotos #catsofpixelfed #catcontent #catlover
Ross of OttawaNice lunch today listening to #KQEDforum on NPR where they're talking to the founders of the #PrelingerArchive which is a great online resource (Archive.org) where you can easily lose a lot of hours. Enjoyed harvesting from there for a few video projects. So fun.
Karsten™️@brewsterkahle The #InternetArchive is the most important site on the Internet. They have been saving almost every webpage since the 90s to preserve the history of the web. Remember #Angelfire? #Geocities? They do.
And they have much more. Millions of old videos, including the #PrelingerArchive of old PSAs and industrial films. The "Duck and Cover" ads from the 50s are my favorite, with a cartoon turtle who teaches kids how to hide under their desk in a nuclear attack.
They have every book scanned by the #Gutenberg Project. They have 16,000 #GratefulDead shows donated by the band. They have in-browser #emulation of game systems from the #Atari2600 to the #Playstation, and computers like the #C64, #AppleII, and 80s #Mac. They even have a growing library of #Elon's deleted tweets, preserved for history.
An easy way to donate: I set them up as my #Amazon Smile charity at smile.amazon.com. Now when I buy anything, Amazon donates 0.5% of my purchase to them.
Donate! History will thank you.
Warren Myers“Included in the list of #takedown demands are a bunch of the Archive's "collection pages" including the entire #ProjectGutenberg page of #publicdomain texts, it's collection of over 15 million freely downloadable texts, the famed #PrelingerArchive of public domain films and the Archive's massive #GratefulDead collection. Oh yeah, also a page of #CSPAN recordings. So much #terrorist content!”
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190410/14580641973/eu-tells-internet-archive-that-much-site-is-terrorist-content.shtml #EUfail #terrorism
EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content'
Update: The Internet Archive has issued a minor correction to its original story, noting that it was not actually Europol who sent the demand, but rather the French Internet Referral Unit using the Europol system, so that it looked like it was coming...