As so often, the Internet Archive has come to save the day.
At its newly opened Aadam Jacobs Archive, you can now listen to nearly 2,500 of the concert recordings that volunteers have digitized and uploaded so far.
In that more than a terabyte of files, you’ll find concerts by Nirvana, Phish, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Björk, They Might Be Giants (recorded four times in 1988 alone), and the Mekons, a…
Gedächtnis der Menschheit: Das Internet Archive schlägt Wurzeln in der Schweiz
Mit einer Stiftung in St. Gallen will das Internet Archive nicht nur bedrohte Archive retten, sondern auch die KI-Ära konservieren. Doch Widerstände wachsen.
A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822–24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude; and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants. To which is added, much useful information on the coasting navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands.
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A voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24: containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude, and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants : Weddell, James : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
iv, 276 p., [4] leaves of plates: ill. (some folded, 1 col.), maps (some folded); 22 cm. Subtitle: To which is added much useful information on the coasting...
Hier mal eine positive Nachricht über Online-Archive aus der Schweiz aber auch wider KI:
(Der Begriff KI ist eine breit gefächerte Formulation für Automatisierung)
«Internet Archive erhält Standort in der Schweiz:
Internet Archive Switzerland hat am 5. Mai 2026 seine operative Arbeit aufgenommen. Die Stiftung will Schweizer Inhalte sichern, KI-Modelle archivieren und gefährdeten Dokumenten einen digitalen Zufluchtsort bieten.»
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@kohnzn/116571527487946402
This vintage Commodore TV commercial is legit!
There's a whole collection on the Internet Archive with more of them. Ah, the 80s...
The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital.
https://archive.org/details/noaa
The "Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology" is simultaneously the most boringly titled book - though accurate, it's a super boring book - and one of the most useful for my current project. It's basically just a list of officeholders, regulations, laws, geographical divisions, etc., etc. But gloriously helpful. Thank you to my forebear, the historian Frederick H. Armstrong, for making the lives of the handful of us who work on early 19th-century Ontario so much easier.
I donated to the Internet Archive today.
They do valuable work and are a huge resource for humanity.
https://archive.org/
"The Internet Archive, a non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to rese…
Claude Code is good at doing research!
In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion).
This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good.
Interested in learning about accents and dialects for your #writing or #voiceover work? Check out The International Dialects of English Archive (https://www.
Lo strumento di archiviazione più potente di Internet è in pericolo
Mentre i principali organi di informazione bloccano la Wayback Machine, giornalisti e gruppi di pressione si stanno mobilitando per proteggere la vasta collezione di pagine web dell'Internet Archive.
https://www.
241 Newsportale blockieren bereits die Web-Crawler des Internet Archive — darunter Guardian und NYT. Ausgerechnet Medienhäuser, die von der Beweismittelkette des offenen Webs profitieren, sägen daran. Carla Siepmann @CarlaSiepmann auf @netzpolitik_feed mit einem wichtigen Text. #LinkRot #InternetArchive
I was able to pull up my old Dragon Ball Z website from the Internet Archive. I made this website 25 years ago on Angelfire. I was 12 at the time. Time flies by!
#memories #webdev
An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-gene…
Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!
I love the internet archive so much
Just learned a cool word: illfare.
There's "welfare", right? So it makes sense to have "illfare".
I learned about this from the preface to J. A. Hobson's book "Work and Welfare": https://archive.org/details/workwealthhumanv0…
Linking data with the help of AI.
There are old medical PhD theses coming online (yea!).
Found Wikipedia articles about the doctors, and then edit the wikipedia articles that would be improved by pointing to them. Also added a review to the Internet Archive items to point to the wikipedia.
I really like Google Search’s stated mission to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” but I’m curious what organizations do y’all think are most ideally invested in that mission?
Wikipedia seems like an obvious one. Internet Archive seems like another. Any others?
RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116615756889889576
The web shutting out the Wayback Machine is bad. But I'd turn this around: If someone wants to move their website into the darknet, so be it. But I won't link to thin…
"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
I just found it in the Internet archive and I can tell: that is NOT how Doom did sound with my Soundblaster16. 🤔
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Doom-soundtrack-becomes-a-cultur…
Menschen haben ein Gedächtnis. Ein Kurzzeitgedächtnis und ein Langzeitgedächtnis. Ein episodisches Gedächtnis und weitere Formen des Gedächtnisses. Fällt eines dieser Gedächtnisse aus, funktioniert auch der Mensch nicht mehr richtig.
Auch die Menschheit hat ein Gedächtnis. Es besteht aus dem Google Cache, aus dem Internet-Archive, aus Archive Today, aus Annas Archive, aus Wikipedia, aus Grokipedia.
Den Google Cache gibt es nicht mehr. Archiv Today hat sich selbst komp…
Menschen haben ein Gedächtnis. Ein Kurzzeitgedächtnis und ein Langzeitgedächtnis. Ein episodisches Gedächtnis und weitere Formen des Gedächtnisses. Fällt eines dieser Gedächtnisse aus, funktioniert auch der Mensch nicht mehr richtig.
Auch die Menschheit hat ein Gedächtnis. Es besteht aus dem Google Cache, aus dem Internet-Archive, aus Archive Today, aus Annas Archive, aus Wikipedia, aus Grokipedia.
Den Google Cache gibt es nicht mehr. Archiv Today hat sich selbst komp…
History repeats itself more than it should.
If you think we cannot get out from under these ghouls, then all I can say is we did it several times before.
We should be getting good at it by now.
The closest Trump's gonna get to heaven is on an airplane.
Go figure, cause I can't
Keep protests peaceful.
Don't kill anyone.
They DO make a difference.
Here are some resistance related guides from around the world:
🇺🇸 Fundamentals …
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