Slashdot Mirror
Google to Digitize National Archives Footage
Anil Kandangath writes "Google today announced their pilot program to digitize the entire video content of the National Archives and make it globally accessible for free on Google Video. The history of the world should be universally accessible and this is definitely a great step towards making sure that our history is not lost, and that everyone has equal and easy access towards such information. Google has provided some sample videos from the National Archives, such as the 1969 moon landing."
One small step for google kind?
So Google is archiving made-up stuff too?
Does this seem suspiciously like the giant-brain episode of Futurama to anyone else?
It all started as an innocent attempt to record and catalog everything in the universe.. but the brains decided they had to destroy the universe right after it finished recording the last bit of data, so things would stop happening and new data would not have to be recorded.
New webcomic updated on Sundays: HERE
But they're violating history's copyright!
Archive.org could use their support too
Archive.org did try selling its archive operations to google once, but google refused, pointing out that it already has the entirety of archive.org in the googlecache.
The 1969 moon landing will be archived along with other gems of human history, such as "Poop Today" and "My ex-girlfriend shows her pussy". Frankly, kudos to Google! I can't wait.
"Joy is contagious," he said, peering into the microscope.
You've been browsing through the Clinton years haven't you?
"Oh dear, she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot" -Prof. Farnsworth (Futurama)
It' really great news that "The History Of The World" will be universally accessible. If enough people watch it and apreciate it, maybe Mel Brooks will consider shooting Part II!