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Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (sfchronicle.com)
20 years ago this week, Archive.org started with just 500,000 sites. An anonymous reader quotes the San Francisco Chronicle:
Now, the nonprofit San Francisco organization -- which celebrated the milestone with a party Wednesday night -- curates a vast digital archive that includes more than 370 million websites and 273 billion pages, many captured before they disappeared forever. It's more than an archive of Internet sites. The organization, founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle, now has a virtual storehouse ranging from digitally converted books and historic film to funny memes and audio recordings of Grateful Dead concerts...
The Internet Archive has survived through community donations and by working with about 1,000 libraries around the world that pay the group to help digitize books and other material. But the site itself remains free.
We've written about Archive.org over the years, and its collection of 2,400 DOS games, over 10,000 Amiga games (and other software) and a massive collection of arcade machine emulators. And here's what Slashdot looked like back in 1998. But what's your favorite page on Archive.org?
The Internet Archive has survived through community donations and by working with about 1,000 libraries around the world that pay the group to help digitize books and other material. But the site itself remains free.
We've written about Archive.org over the years, and its collection of 2,400 DOS games, over 10,000 Amiga games (and other software) and a massive collection of arcade machine emulators. And here's what Slashdot looked like back in 1998. But what's your favorite page on Archive.org?
One thing I greatly dislike about archive.org is that they retroactively apply current robots.txt contents to archived versions of a site.
I had a website that I sold years ago which now has a no crawl directive so the entire history is gone from the archive. Why would they remove archived versions which permitted crawling?
Saw the Slashdot screenshot's article on Gimp and realized that it still sucks as badly now as it did 18 years ago.
is bad? How does A get away with it?
Audio of back-to-back Jefferson Airplane concerts from October 1966--Sygne Anderson's farewell show with the band, followed by Grace Slick's first one on the following evening, both at the Fillmore. Part of the Anderson gig was eventually (sometime in the 2000s, I think) released commercially.
She died earlier this year--on the same day as Paul Kantner, IIRC.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
that they will have to make an archive of archive.org
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
http://archive.org/details/old...
if I owned a shortwave broadcasting station i would play those old radio shows exclusively
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
i remember reading /. that day and those articles / headlines are still in my memory. feels weird.
Fuck Ajit Pai
Calling it 'archiving' doesn't change the fact that these are simply thieves who just want to deprive hard working creators of their well deserved profits.
Disgusting leeches of society .
now you've awoken Cloanta Software to send DMCA notices and try to take down Archive.org. Will there be a 21st birthday?
I tried to register on the 1998 Slashdot so I could get one of those nifty "low UIDs" that apparently denote a programmer of great skill and wisdom around here but it didn't work and I'm still a 12 year old cut and paste Python programmer.
On their 10th anniversary, their front page had things you wanted to read about and things you cared about: conspiracies!
9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions
September 11th Revisited - Were explosives used?
;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
The Old Time Radio archive, the Public Domain Movies and some kodi addons
:)
All of the Amiga games were taken down after a ~week.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
I like the audio recordings of the entire "Book of Urantia" in a computer generated Robot Voice, like for example "The Paradise Sons of God" from "The Central and Superuniverses": https://archive.org/download/U...
I would love to link to some favourite pages but, for a few weeks now, archive.org has been blocked. And not just at the DNS level either (like most of the 114,000 currently blocked sites here in Turkey) but they firewall-of-china it, timing out http connections and breaking https connections.
Probably to do with 14GB of buying-oil-from-ISIS emails leaked recently.
99% of which they don't have the rights to publish.
Most of the currents right holders won't care much but guys, this isn't right. And surely there's someone at Archive.org who knows this.
Archive.org plays it dumb when archived content becomes unavailable due to a domain drop catcher placing a robots.txt archiving exclusion on the domain.
This would not be quite so suspicious if it were not for the fact that when the original author of the material "memory holed" by archive.org pays the extortion to the domain drop catcher, archive.org and requests that archive.org restore the content for the public, archive.org will frequently (always?) fail to do sodo so.
Archive.org's motive?
What is Google's motive for making its Usenet archives virtually unusable?
He who controls the past...
Seastead this.
Nor traversed the links to find the attached Geocities sites. Seemingly it did not save Geocities, either. But at least I can document I had a site then. As an algorithm it is lacking. Pity I did not go open source and uploaded ALL my code, it did save the pure text files... But funny iexplorer is asking to play the automatic mp3 file though it does not understand the **format**...
Really, I use it when I come across a URL but the site went down or a website that is interesting or has certain info I am looking for (i.e. a story or spec sheet for equipment) but the owners either went out of business or died. I even donate money to IA, I sure wish I knew of their party. I've been to a few "Lost Landscapes" of Prelinger's collection. Of course don't expect IA to archive everything, it just can't be done. Their neoclassic, Greek-columned home on Funston that matches their logo, that was coincidence. Logo came years before then they got a good deal to locate on Funston Ave, they were pleasantly surprised front of building matches their logo. In the rear of main seating are racks of servers. When a light blinks it means someone is visiting archive.org.
mfwright@batnet.com