internet archive
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You Can Now Read the Whole Earth Catalog Online
Remember the Whole Earth Catalog? If you’re a fan of the anarcho-libertarian magazine that helped usher in a popular interest in all things tech and internet culture, there’s good news: a nearly complete collection of the publication’s archive has been digitized and uploaded to the web for easy browsing. Whole Earth was first published in…
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The Winamp Skin Museum Is X-Tremely Gnarly
At this moment, thousands of people around the world are booting up the just-released remaster of the classic Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game and hearing those plinking Primus riffs on the soundtrack for the first time in a couple of decades. If you’re one of the people who are about to spend the weekend…
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Somebody Is Furiously Uploading ’90s Windows Desktop Themes To The Internet Archive
Two free-roaming archivists are wildly uploading hundreds of early Windows Desktop themes from the ‘90s and early aughts to the Internet Archive, populating the site with a trove of off-brand fan art you can install as your desktop wallpaper. Why? I do not know, but they have a captive audience. They probably would anyway, but…
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Thousands Of Lost MySpace Songs Have Been Recovered — No Thanks To MySpace
Last year, a borked server migration resulted in MySpace losing all of the music uploaded to the website between 2003 and 2015 — a loss estimated at more than 50 million tracks from 14 million artists. But now a small fraction has been recovered thanks to an anonymous group of academics and uploaded to the…