AMAZING Internet Archive!

[silverweb]

I've just discovered the _Internet Archive_, which "is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

The archivists aspire to nothing less than "universal access to human knowledge."

They've got scanned books, video of old TV shows and movies, voice and music audio files, software, and educational resources -- and they've only been at it since 1996.

I've just registered and am already lost in the virtual corridors of this incredible and growing maze of fascination. If I disappear for days at a time, you'll know where to look for me.

Come _check it out!_

[and-justice-for-all]

1. Prima! Danke! nt

[conspirator]

2. In fact the whole internet is our digital library n/t

[Perry Logan]

3. It's the Akashic Records of the internet.

[malaise]

4. Thanks for this

Bookmarked.

[LiberalMandrake]

5. Useful tool to confirm that everything has been said long ago

For example, to confirm that Obama is a remake of Dean
http://web.archive.org/web/20041129045945/http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/279893.shtml

[silverweb]

6. Kicked for the weekend people.

And added to my journal.

:kick:

[Solon]

7. Lots of movies on that site that you can download for free...

They are either distributed through the Creative Commons license, or are public domain. Here's a list of my favorite movies:

Salt of the Earth, the ONLY movie made in the US that was black listed in the US, a classic movie:

http://www.archive.org/details/salt_of_the_earth

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War is a nice documentary on the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela:

http://www.archive.org/details/Venezuela_Bolivariana_VEN_2004

Another Classic movie, Night of the Living Dead(1968):

http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead

[blogslut]

8. Archive dot org. Home of the Wayback machine

It rules and has been ruling for a good while. I dig it.

[KoKo]

9. K&R

[alfredo]

10. Betty Boop cartoons with Cab Calloway singing, what a find.

Minnie The Moocher is a real classic as is the retelling of Snow White.

[Kurovski]

11. K&R. (nt)