Notices by Jason Scott (textfiles@mastodon.archive.org)

If the archive is down at this point, it is basically that we are fixing more and more things and strengthening for a better future. So, don't worry too much, we have a lot of eyes on this and a lot of people are helping us from a lot of different places.

The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.

https://archive.org

Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.

Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.

I like our side.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/09/leidse-proefschriften-worden-toch-niet-vernietigd-400000-dissertaties-gaan-naar-de-vs-a4868698

Greetings, cool people. The Internet Archive is having our yearly celebration event in October. The announcement and the link to getting tickets to attend are here:

https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/19/celebrate-with-the-internet-archive-on-october-22nd-23rd/

BREAKING NEWS: BLACK SUVS LEAVING INTERNET ARCHIVE AS SPECULATION ABOUT KAHLE AS VP PICK GROWS

@Albatross THERE WAS BLACK SMOKE OUT OF THE TRANSFORMER OUTSIDE

Internet Archive suffered a major power outage over the weekend and we are still recovering; if the site seems a little janky and slow, that's why.

Kay Savetz took a leap of faith and bought dozens of master tapes for a lost radio show, with one of a kind interviews on them. He's seeking funds to pay a professional to digitize the tapes, and they all go on Internet Archive.

Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, MacPaint’s Bill Atkinson, Infocom’s Joel Berez, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, musician Herbie Hancock, EA’s Trip Hawkins, Stewart Brand... they're all on here.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe

Let's just fund this and move on.

The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/01/the-backrooms-of-the-internet-archive/

OK, the big experiment has begun. A ham radio group has funded the scanning of 4,000 manuals from the Great Manuals Plus Haul. Now, the experiment is - will people kick on a special link in the blog entry to help fund the other 20 PALLETS of manuals?

https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/24/a-happy-ending-for-some-manual-labor-and-a-call-for-support/

@tychotithonus

@tychotithonus

@tychotithonus Jesus buddy. Here's as much of those as I can do in about 5 minutes.

@Moon

Hey everybody. I'm at the internet archive headquarters all day. Tell me something you want to picture of and I'll do my best to supply. Where I can, I'll include a capsule description of what you're looking at as well.

@trobador @kzodasnowman @internetarchive

Email jscott@archive.org.

HEADS UP

In a short while I'm going to be asking for a lot of donations, or maybe some big ones, for a project that has taken nine years to see completion. If you want to write some whopper of a check NOW (it'll be five figures) that would be hot. Tax-deductible donations to https://archive.org/donate - mention "Jason's Project".

Details come in another day or two.

The semantic search engine of over 25,000 CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive is back:

http://DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM is once again helping people discover long-lost computer history, forgotten images and music, and endless other buried treasures.

It was gone for half a year. Now it's here to stay. Enjoy.

"Jason, what's it like when someone does a pitch-perfect Internet Archive emulated-in-browser item of a modern creation of a game on a 40+ year platform and hits every single aspect of it perfectly?"

https://archive.org/details/dragon_202401

This is a frankly infurating framing of the natural end of a copyright literally a human century later