@internetarchive please archive everything you are able to archive 😭

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i’m frequently asking myself the opposite. Why whatever out of print book , or newspaper collection, is not on the internet .

Do we have storage what for ?

@internetarchive “Radio Fundamentals” from the 30s too, has some gems for learning morse code and also the billing system because the phone was a monopoly so better to just bake that into the education too.

@internetarchive well this was quite the rabbit hole for a Wednesday morning

@internetarchive I can't seem to find the reference now, but I do remember hearing that notes produced for the 1800s novel flat land contained math that ended up being useful for making two-dimensional spaces that appear three-dimensional in video games in the 1980s. It takes pennies to hold on to these things, and while it's rare that they get used when they do the payout is much much larger

@internetarchive As a doll hobbyist, I always wondered why a huge % of 19th century dolls representing children were dressed in white. Your archive has a book from 1857 that stated it was for health reasons! I guess some of those early dyes might be toxic.

@internetarchive -- my opinion is that governments or organizations benefiting from the archives (like universities or libraries) should be the main contributors; individuals do donate but I am sure it's not systematic

@internetarchive Good point. Maybe it could lead to an ancient artifact just like in those movies.

@internetarchive Exactly.

@internetarchive All accumulated thought and knowledge of the human race should be available to absolutely everyone, at all times.

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Why wouldn't you digitize out-of-print textbooks from the 1930s if you could?
That's history.

Every time we lose the last copy of a physical book or photo, we lose a piece of what led us to this moment.
If we do not know where we came from we cannot grasp how far we've come.