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Brewster Kahle

Please donate to the Internet Archive if you can.
archive.org/donate

We are a bargain! Serving millions every day with books music video and web archives.

Please help keep everything freely available.
20 Dec 2022 at 19:18 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
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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.

@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.

20 Dec 2022 at 21:58 | Open on im-in.space
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Brewster Kahle

@mvexel @karstenbondy

Depends on what you can/want to do, but the Internet Archive needs lots of help-- wayback, search, periodicals, 78's, ILL, outreach... so much to do.

20 Dec 2022 at 23:52 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
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Brewster Kahle

@mvexel @karstenbondy

I am sure there are interesting and useful geospacial projects at the Archive.

How hard is it to disambiguate textual references to places?

We could map where bands played in the live music archive,

could map where TV news is referring to,

we could use maps to help navigate government documents (notoriously hard to navigate)

maybe add locations to home movies, to books.

whois data...

anyway, we have lots of cultural materials to play with.

22 Dec 2022 at 18:38 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
Karsten™️

@mvexel @brewsterkahle Thanks for the boost, Martijn! I'm huge fan of #OpenStreetMap and the work you've done on #MapRoulette. I could swear we did a story on it years ago when I was working on #TWiT, but I can't find any record of it.

You and the folks at OpenStreetMap.org need volunteers, too! If anyone here loves #OpenSource projects and wants a fun challenge, they should go to maproulette.org and help add places and fix data in Open Street Map. They need people to add details about everything from highways in #SaudiArabia to #museums in #France and barbershops in the #BayArea.

We've all learned a lesson this past month about how crucial it is to have open source backups to the corporate services we depend on. There's nothing keeping #Google from sending #Maps to the #GoogleGraveyard like #Reader, #Hangouts, and all the useful editing tools that Maps used to have. I'm going to try switching to Open Street Maps, and maybe even track down some US museums websites for you!

@mvexel @brewsterkahle Thanks for the boost, Martijn! I'm huge fan of #OpenStreetMap and the work you've done on #MapRoulette. I could swear we did a story on it years ago when I was working on #TWiT, but I can't find any record of it.

You and the folks at OpenStreetMap.org need volunteers, too! If anyone here loves #OpenSource projects and wants a fun challenge, they should go to maproulette.org and help add places and fix data in Open Street Map. They need people to add details about everything from highways in

21 Dec 2022 at 1:47 | Open on im-in.space
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