We saw the www.lostlandscapes.org show which was put on to benefit the Internet Archive which suffered from a fire recently. The show featured footage of SF from the 1920s to 1980s. The soundtrack is the crowd, as they yell out recognized locations and ask questions, etc. The Internet Archive (which has the Wayback Machine) is located in a former church. The grand hall is where the show was held, and you can see that the church pews are still in tact. In the alcoves at the back are two server racks which store the master copy of the archives. On the edges are little statues. Those are representations of people who dedicated many hours volunteering for the archive. The one I happened to photograph is Aaron Swartz.
The Archive
IIPC WAC 2024 Presentation: A Conceptual Model of Decentralized Storage for Community-Based Archives
Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives
Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…
The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
The FBI is hunting for the archived website that's making the media u…
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The Skeleton Library
On Interpolatable Archives, Part 1: Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital Oralities
Webrecorder: Web Archiving for All
Webrecorder provides open source solutions for everyone to archive the complex, interactive Web.
An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75)
Illustrator Zara Picken maintains an archive of commercial illustration from the mid-20th century. So much throwback inspiration here!
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
The little editor that could
