Internet Archive stories:
Yahoo's GeoCities Takes Its Final Bow Today
Oct 26th, 2009 - PC World
Sometime today, the servers for what once was one of the most popular sites on the web will be shut off. As earlier announced, Yahoo will be shutting down the once very popular GeoCities web hosting service for good...
Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?
Sep 23rd, 2009 - ZDNet
I'm reposting an insightful piece about the pull-back of the Google Books settlement by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. Brewster was among the first to cry foul over the deal and he has been a leading voice throughout the full debate...
Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets
Sep 18th, 2009 - ZDNet
Back in 2002, Brewster Kahle invented the Internet Archive Bookmobile. This was a low-tech affair. Starting with scans or plain-text of public domain works ("The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in Wonderland" were favorites)...
Internet Archive videos from YouTube:
12:40Internet Archive, In Depth
archive.org has many secrets beyond the Internet Way Back Machine, this episode gives you details on many of the other great services you can find, and all the free types of media for download!
2:01Internet Archive-XO laptop
Brewster Kahle demonstrates the XO laptop as an e-book reader
2:39What has Deathviper04 been up to? GINORMO SWORD!
Yes I have been caught up playing a flash game. I don't know how it happened. I started playing for a few minutes thinking "This is kind of lame.." Next thing I know a few hours have passed and I'm still playing! Sorry for the low audio ...
2:04Internet Archive
www.archive.org The Internet Archive is a complete snapshot of all web pages on every website since 1996 till today. Since the average lifetime of a page on the Internet is 100 days, this snapshot is retaken every two months. The Internet Archive at BA includes the web collection of 1996 to 2006 ...
Internet Archive from WikiPedia:
Coordinates: 37°48?0?N 122°27?37?W? / ?37.8°N 122.46028°W? / 37.8; -122.46028
The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the World Wide Web.
With offices located in the Presidio in San Francisco, California, and data centers in San Francisco, Redwood City, and Mountain View, CA, the archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings. To ensure the stability and endurance of the Internet Archive, its collection is mirrored at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, so far the only library in the world with a mirror.
The IA makes its collections available at no cost to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. It is a member of the American Library Association and is officially recognized by the State of California as a library.
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