#internet-archive — Public Fediverse posts

So, I've been downloading #GBLTQ resources and historical documents (including #QueerTalk, a radio show on #WMPG hosted by one of my first friends after I moved to #Maine). Why am I doing this? Because I don't trust #Trump and fiends to be in charge of public university archives. I'll be uploading those precious digital records to the @internetarchive soon. So grateful IA are there to be an independent repository of #History and #Culture! 📚 🎧 🎥

#PreservingCulture #PreservingHistory #InternetArchive #FundingCuts #MemoryHole #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #LGBTQ #QueerHistory

So, I've been downloading #GBLTQ resources and historical documents (including #QueerTalk, a radio show on #WMPG hosted by one of my first friends after I moved to #Maine). Why am I doing this? Because I don't trust #Trump and fiends to be in charge of public university archives. I'll be uploading those precious digital records to the @internetarchive soon. So grateful IA are there to be an independent repository of #History and #Culture! 📚 🎧 🎥

#PreservingCulture #PreservingHistory #InternetArchive #FundingCuts #MemoryHole #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #LGBTQ #QueerHistory

3️⃣/3️⃣ And you can 🎤 Join Elias & author Sonia Mansfield for a free #booktalk on August 4 at the Internet Archive, both in person AND online. With audience Q&A!

📅 Tues Aug 4
Livestream:
🕕 6 PM PT
📡 https://www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qqvHKA

In-Person:
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM PT
📍 300 Funston, SF
🎟️ Link in our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/

#InternetArchive #OpenAccess #booktalk

3️⃣/3️⃣ And you can 🎤 Join Elias & author Sonia Mansfield for a free #booktalk on August 4 at the Internet Archive, both in person AND online. With audience Q&A!

📅 Tues Aug 4
Livestream:
🕕 6 PM PT
📡 https://www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qqvHKA

In-Person:
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM PT
📍 300 Funston, SF
🎟️ Link in our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/

#InternetArchive #OpenAccess #booktalk

Lors de mes recherches pour un article de fond sur lequel je travail, fort de #zlibrary et #internetarchive je découvre des ressources inestimables sur le sujet que je traite. Ça me fait déborder sur des terriers de lapin assez fou ... Je tombe parfois sur des dingueries ...

Ici, un article du New York Times de Décembre 1991 🙃

Lors de mes recherches pour un article de fond sur lequel je travail, fort de #zlibrary et #internetarchive je découvre des ressources inestimables sur le sujet que je traite. Ça me fait déborder sur des terriers de lapin assez fou ... Je tombe parfois sur des dingueries ...

Ici, un article du New York Times de Décembre 1991 🙃

“Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception”*…

Indeed. And that’s especially true of the institutions that guard the archives that are our cultural heritage. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, which endangers these memory institutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age.

The stakes are high. As Haruki Murakami observed: “Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime… If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”

Michael Menna (a Stanford Law Fellow who co-authored the “Our Future Memory” manifesto) and Lila Bailey (Senior Policy Counsel at one of the world’s most crucial repositories, The Internet Archive), call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information…

… We are living through a troubling paradox: Digital technologies have enabled the production and distribution of more information than ever, yet access to that information isincreasingly fragmented and fragile. These technologies should permit us to engage and learn from all the digital content at our fingertips. Instead, many of the basic rights we grew accustomed to in the physical world are now being overtaken by aggressive market tactics that do not reflect the public-interest values the law was meant to protect. If copyright, privacy, and other regulatory frameworks were designed to balance the interests of creators and users with the public’s need to access and contribute to the wealth of human knowledge, then our increasingly digital information economy has thrown that balance out of whack.

In this new media environment, publishers and other content providers have unprecedented power to control knowledge and culture with technical restrictions and exclusionary licensing terms. Governments also have an easier time censoring what people can see by scrubbing their websites and pressuring commercial platforms to do the same. These sudden changes will feel familiar to anyone who has logged onto a streaming service or social media app to find a movie or news story suddenly missing. But for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”), it poses an existential risk to
their core public service mission of preserving culture and protecting history. When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse.

We write this paper from our perspective at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library that specializes in web archiving, digitization, and the preservation of media in all forms. We feel the harms from these shifts firsthand and hear many of the same complaints from our partner memory institutions around the world. That shared frustration with today’s digital landscape has given rise to an emerging consensus among libraries, archives, museums, and their allies, calling for better legal protections and practical options to continue their services and preserve cultural memory in today’s information age.

This two-part paper (1) presents the looming threat of “vanishing culture” as a first-order political crisis, and (2) discusses the key role that libraries and other memory institutions can play in meeting that crisis.2 In the first part, we examine the underlying causes of vanishing culture and trace its ripple effects along several different facets of modern life: (a) educational resources, (b) journalistic integrity, (c) civic engagement, (d) religious study, and (e) environmental policy. In the second part, we reintroduce a framework of four rights that would ensure memory institutions’ ability to work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital materials. This framework rests on the simple proposition that memory institutions should be allowed to do the same things in the digital world that they’ve historically done in the physical world. It originated in the 2024 statement titled Four Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online3 before it became a global rallying cry for the Our Future Memory movement and its growing list of library, archive, and museum signatories. Together, these memory institutions are striving to combat the political causes and effects of vanishing culture by speaking with one voice to the importance of memory work in an age of digital ephemerality. That is why we call on all memory institutions, large and small, to sign onto the Statement and join the movement. Individuals and communities need memory institutions to educate themselves and freely participate in civic life, and every time a content provider lets critical information disappear online, it offers further proof that today’s digital markets alone do not constitute a viable alternative. If things do not change soon, we risk sleepwalking into a future where both memory institutions and the public they serve will become passive consumers, rather than active stewards of human knowledge…

Menna and Bailey explain the situation; unpack the four rights they propose: collection, preservation, access, and collaboration; then issue a call to action.

Eminently worth reading in full: “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory” (PDF here)

See also Vanishing Culture (full PDF here)

And consider joining me in supporting the Internet Archive.

* Jordan Mechner

###

As we preserve and share, we might send open birthday greetings to a man who would surely have understood the importance of Menna’s and Bailey’s arguments: Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he was born on this date in 1902.  One of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, Popper is best known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  (Or more simply put, whereas classical inductive approaches considered hypotheses false until proven true, Popper reversed the logic: conclusions drawn from an empirical finding are true until proven false.)

Popper was also a powerful critic of historicism in political thought, and (in books like The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism) an enemy of authoritarianism and totalitarianism (in which role he was a mentor to George Soros).

 source

“Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception”*…

Indeed. And that’s especially true of the institutions that guard the archives that are our cultural heritage. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, which endangers these memory institutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age.

The stakes are high. As Haruki Murakami observed: “Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime… If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”

Michael Menna (a Stanford Law Fellow who co-authored the “Our Future Memory” manifesto) and Lila Bailey (Senior Policy Counsel at one of the world’s most crucial repositories, The Internet Archive), call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information…

… We are living through a troubling paradox: Digital technologies have enabled the production and distribution of more information than ever, yet access to that information isincreasingly fragmented and fragile. These technologies should permit us to engage and learn from all the digital content at our fingertips. Instead, many of the basic rights we grew accustomed to in the physical world are now being overtaken by aggressive market tactics that do not reflect the public-interest values the law was meant to protect. If copyright, privacy, and other regulatory frameworks were designed to balance the interests of creators and users with the public’s need to access and contribute to the wealth of human knowledge, then our increasingly digital information economy has thrown that balance out of whack.

In this new media environment, publishers and other content providers have unprecedented power to control knowledge and culture with technical restrictions and exclusionary licensing terms. Governments also have an easier time censoring what people can see by scrubbing their websites and pressuring commercial platforms to do the same. These sudden changes will feel familiar to anyone who has logged onto a streaming service or social media app to find a movie or news story suddenly missing. But for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”), it poses an existential risk to
their core public service mission of preserving culture and protecting history. When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse.

We write this paper from our perspective at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library that specializes in web archiving, digitization, and the preservation of media in all forms. We feel the harms from these shifts firsthand and hear many of the same complaints from our partner memory institutions around the world. That shared frustration with today’s digital landscape has given rise to an emerging consensus among libraries, archives, museums, and their allies, calling for better legal protections and practical options to continue their services and preserve cultural memory in today’s information age.

This two-part paper (1) presents the looming threat of “vanishing culture” as a first-order political crisis, and (2) discusses the key role that libraries and other memory institutions can play in meeting that crisis.2 In the first part, we examine the underlying causes of vanishing culture and trace its ripple effects along several different facets of modern life: (a) educational resources, (b) journalistic integrity, (c) civic engagement, (d) religious study, and (e) environmental policy. In the second part, we reintroduce a framework of four rights that would ensure memory institutions’ ability to work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital materials. This framework rests on the simple proposition that memory institutions should be allowed to do the same things in the digital world that they’ve historically done in the physical world. It originated in the 2024 statement titled Four Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online3 before it became a global rallying cry for the Our Future Memory movement and its growing list of library, archive, and museum signatories. Together, these memory institutions are striving to combat the political causes and effects of vanishing culture by speaking with one voice to the importance of memory work in an age of digital ephemerality. That is why we call on all memory institutions, large and small, to sign onto the Statement and join the movement. Individuals and communities need memory institutions to educate themselves and freely participate in civic life, and every time a content provider lets critical information disappear online, it offers further proof that today’s digital markets alone do not constitute a viable alternative. If things do not change soon, we risk sleepwalking into a future where both memory institutions and the public they serve will become passive consumers, rather than active stewards of human knowledge…

Menna and Bailey explain the situation; unpack the four rights they propose: collection, preservation, access, and collaboration; then issue a call to action.

Eminently worth reading in full: “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory” (PDF here)

See also Vanishing Culture (full PDF here)

And consider joining me in supporting the Internet Archive.

* Jordan Mechner

###

As we preserve and share, we might send open birthday greetings to a man who would surely have understood the importance of Menna’s and Bailey’s arguments: Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he was born on this date in 1902.  One of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, Popper is best known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  (Or more simply put, whereas classical inductive approaches considered hypotheses false until proven true, Popper reversed the logic: conclusions drawn from an empirical finding are true until proven false.)

Popper was also a powerful critic of historicism in political thought, and (in books like The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism) an enemy of authoritarianism and totalitarianism (in which role he was a mentor to George Soros).

 source

Tonight's trick is to photograph a whole set of documents and upload them as a single #InternetArchive item, and then give each a separate catalogue record. This should be quicker than the other method of having each be a separate IA item. I'm not quite sure if it's poor form on the IA side though (but it's sort of how I've seen others do it so I'll assume it's fine for now).

"…this article repeats an #urgentcall for four #digitalrights that would allow #libraries, #archives, #museums, and other #culturalheritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of #preservinghistory and providing access to information. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of #archivalephemerality, which endangers these #memoryinstitutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age. This article presents this phenomenon of “#vanishingculture” as a first-order political crisis by surveying several social contexts wherein that crisis hinders people’s ability to educate themselves and freely participate in public life."
#internetarchive
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

"…this article repeats an #urgentcall for four #digitalrights that would allow #libraries, #archives, #museums, and other #culturalheritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of #preservinghistory and providing access to information. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of #archivalephemerality, which endangers these #memoryinstitutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age. This article presents this phenomenon of “#vanishingculture” as a first-order political crisis by surveying several social contexts wherein that crisis hinders people’s ability to educate themselves and freely participate in public life."
#internetarchive
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

Yeeees! Es ist online. Die Person hat es geschafft und ich bin ultra happy.

Jetzt kann die Allgemeinheit endlich die "wahren" Geschichten von X-Factor nachlesen. Ohne eine Niere bezahlen zu müssen. 🥳

Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding von Robert Tralins:

https://archive.org/details/strange-events-r-tralins-mixed

#internetArchive #XFactor

Yeeees! Es ist online. Die Person hat es geschafft und ich bin ultra happy.

Jetzt kann die Allgemeinheit endlich die "wahren" Geschichten von X-Factor nachlesen. Ohne eine Niere bezahlen zu müssen. 🥳

Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding von Robert Tralins:

https://archive.org/details/strange-events-r-tralins-mixed

#internetArchive #XFactor

@LucasWerkmeister I feel a bit like that about the #InternetArchive too!

Although, compared to relying on some random person (say… me) to run some MediaWiki site with an ever-growing amount of stuff in it, I think the odds might be in favour of Codeberg, IA, etc. (not that I view donations as the same as paying for a service, but it does give me some feeling of safety.)

@LucasWerkmeister I feel a bit like that about the #InternetArchive too!

Although, compared to relying on some random person (say… me) to run some MediaWiki site with an ever-growing amount of stuff in it, I think the odds might be in favour of Codeberg, IA, etc. (not that I view donations as the same as paying for a service, but it does give me some feeling of safety.)

Doc Pop: Chuck Tingle at the Internet Archive in SF. “Chuck writes erotica, horror, and comedy books with titles like Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Pounded in the Butt by My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly but in Reality Is Just a Natural Part of the Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides. I haven’t read any of his books yet, but I can’t help loving […]

Doc Pop: Chuck Tingle at the Internet Archive in SF. “Chuck writes erotica, horror, and comedy books with titles like Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Pounded in the Butt by My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly but in Reality Is Just a Natural Part of the Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides. I haven’t read any of his books yet, but I can’t help loving […]

@internetarchive

There is always, always already a movie out there about "it".
Thinking here about "monuments men".
A winner of a war always want to erase the culture/history of the yet defeated/powerless.
It happened throughout history.
It happens right now globally in different places, so in this case too, the war of wealthy.

So the #internetarchive are actually our monuments men. Their work is to be taken as seriously important!

@internetarchive

There is always, always already a movie out there about "it".
Thinking here about "monuments men".
A winner of a war always want to erase the culture/history of the yet defeated/powerless.
It happened throughout history.
It happens right now globally in different places, so in this case too, the war of wealthy.

So the #internetarchive are actually our monuments men. Their work is to be taken as seriously important!

✨ Looking for more DWeb camping? ✨

Co-Adapt.
Co-Create.
Co-Here.

Six days left to get last-minute tickets for DWeb Camp Cascadia, by @[email protected] 💕

Salt Spring Island, Canada, Jul 30 - Aug 3.

A few shots from last year:

✨ Looking for more DWeb camping? ✨

Co-Adapt.
Co-Create.
Co-Here.

Six days left to get last-minute tickets for DWeb Camp Cascadia, by @[email protected] 💕

Salt Spring Island, Canada, Jul 30 - Aug 3.

A few shots from last year:

the ever fleeting, oft misleading #map

Quote in Alt text compiled from Herman Melville's #MobyDick or the #Whale. Chapter three The #SpouterInn #Illustrations by #RockwellKent Published 1930. tinyurl.com/yc8knx95 This Random House copy entered the #publicdomain January 1st, 2026. #InternetArchive

the ever fleeting, oft misleading #map

Quote in Alt text compiled from Herman Melville's #MobyDick or the #Whale. Chapter three The #SpouterInn #Illustrations by #RockwellKent Published 1930. tinyurl.com/yc8knx95 This Random House copy entered the #publicdomain January 1st, 2026. #InternetArchive

Here are new and clean 300dpi scans of both manuals of the SimCity graphics sets: "Graphics Set 1 - Ancient Cities", as well as "Graphics Set 2 - Future Cities".
These are from 1990 and from the US versions of the expansions. These are also the same for both MS-DOS and Amiga... and probably Macintosh, too.

Graphics Set 1: https://archive.org/details/simcity_graphics-1_manual/
Graphics Set 2: https://archive.org/details/simcity_graphics-2_manual/

Have fun! 😉

#Manual #Retro #Gaming #SimCity #90s #Preservation #EGA #DOS #Amiga #Maxis #InternetArchive

Here are new and clean 300dpi scans of both manuals of the SimCity graphics sets: "Graphics Set 1 - Ancient Cities", as well as "Graphics Set 2 - Future Cities".
These are from 1990 and from the US versions of the expansions. These are also the same for both MS-DOS and Amiga... and probably Macintosh, too.

Graphics Set 1: https://archive.org/details/simcity_graphics-1_manual/
Graphics Set 2: https://archive.org/details/simcity_graphics-2_manual/

Have fun! 😉

#Manual #Retro #Gaming #SimCity #90s #Preservation #EGA #DOS #Amiga #Maxis #InternetArchive

Oh, come on! Why is the Internet Archive down?!
P.S. Looks like it's back online. Yay!

#InternetArchive #Archive #Offline #Störung

Oh, come on! Why is the Internet Archive down?!
P.S. Looks like it's back online. Yay!

#InternetArchive #Archive #Offline #Störung

Remember the hypnotic psychedlic #visualization from the #Milkdrop plugin in #Winamp?

I wasted enough time trying & failing to get modern equivalent Project-M to work on Linux.

But thanks to the #InternetArchive I don't even need to: I can just play some files in Webamp & it comes with Milkdrop! (although I haven't worked out how to make it fullscreen yet EDIT: right-click on Milkdrop > Fullscreen))

Plus you can try different skins, like this sweeeeet #Jaws one! 😆

https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Jaws

Remember the hypnotic psychedlic #visualization from the #Milkdrop plugin in #Winamp?

I wasted enough time trying & failing to get modern equivalent Project-M to work on Linux.

But thanks to the #InternetArchive I don't even need to: I can just play some files in Webamp & it comes with Milkdrop! (although I haven't worked out how to make it fullscreen yet EDIT: right-click on Milkdrop > Fullscreen))

Plus you can try different skins, like this sweeeeet #Jaws one! 😆

https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Jaws

As an aside, I was really happy to see that @theplentynet wiki exists because I hate that so many niche wikis are just on fandom (dot) com¹

And The Plenty have a forum running on @mybb software too.

💙

¹ Fandom is like Geocities for creating your own wiki on a specialist subject and hosts soooooo much information, owned by an American private equity firm, and I really hope @internetarchive are backing all of that up regularly.

#wiki #wikis #wikipedia #fandom #internet #internetarchive

As an aside, I was really happy to see that @theplentynet wiki exists because I hate that so many niche wikis are just on fandom (dot) com¹

And The Plenty have a forum running on @mybb software too.

💙

¹ Fandom is like Geocities for creating your own wiki on a specialist subject and hosts soooooo much information, owned by an American private equity firm, and I really hope @internetarchive are backing all of that up regularly.

#wiki #wikis #wikipedia #fandom #internet #internetarchive

Petition for artists to start releasing DIGITAL ALBUM LINER NOTES and also submitting credits to places like AllMusic and Discogs and just generally making MUSICIAN and ARRANGER etc etc credits available ANYWHERE…

AND ALSO, who wants to start the '"Internet Archive" of scanning physical liner notes' project with me?? 🙃

Petition for artists to start releasing DIGITAL ALBUM LINER NOTES and also submitting credits to places like AllMusic and Discogs and just generally making MUSICIAN and ARRANGER etc etc credits available ANYWHERE…

AND ALSO, who wants to start the '"Internet Archive" of scanning physical liner notes' project with me?? 🙃

Programas de rádio sobre a história da computação sendo preservados

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/13/programas-de-radio-sobre-a-historia-da-computacao-sendo-preservados/

#MundoRetro #Apple #BillAtkinson #BillGates #computao #DouglasAdams #histria #InternetArchive #JackTramiel #KevinSavetz #programa #rdio #recuperao

Programas de rádio sobre a história da computação sendo preservados

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/13/programas-de-radio-sobre-a-historia-da-computacao-sendo-preservados/

#MundoRetro #Apple #BillAtkinson #BillGates #computao #DouglasAdams #histria #InternetArchive #JackTramiel #KevinSavetz #programa #rdio #recuperao

Human Legacy And The Preservation Of Knowledge

https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/human-legacy-and-the-preservation-of-knowledge/

Human Legacy And The Preservation Of Knowledge

https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/human-legacy-and-the-preservation-of-knowledge/

So I was browsing through audio books on the #InternetArchive a little while ago. Sorted by highest all-time views and... yikes. I feel like my soul has been stained in ways that can never be cleaned. 😨

So I was browsing through audio books on the #InternetArchive a little while ago. Sorted by highest all-time views and... yikes. I feel like my soul has been stained in ways that can never be cleaned. 😨

@PurpleJillybeans you #NerdSniped me with this, so down the 🐰🕳️ I went… 🤬😩

I was going to suggest that you reach out to the person who wrote the blog post below, but I see in the comments that he’s already been asked to upload the install media to #InternetArchive and has declined

the article might be of interest to you anyway – he lists his install configs & also links to video playlists of installations of lots of (all? 🤔) versions…

…which are on the official VMware YT channel 🤔

ah, OK. it looks like he currently works for #Broadcom, so that’s probably a dead end as far as getting the installers that he has (access to) preserved on IA 😕
 
 
How to install all versions of ESX and ESXi in VM?

https://williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-install-all-versions-of-esx-and-esxi-in-vm.html
 
 
it’s so frustrating that vendors don’t just make this available as part of preserving their own product history, if nothing else. I sincerely doubt that anyone’s going to be downloading & running ESX 1.5 in production 20+ years later to avoid buying the current version 🤪

what I’d really like to see is legislation that mandates that all no-longer-supported software be made available publicly & released into the commons, but given the US is allergic to regulating just about anything I don’t see that happening any time soon 😩

#DigiPres
#VMware #GSX #ESX #ESXi
#VintageSoftware
#RetroComputing
  

@PurpleJillybeans you #NerdSniped me with this, so down the 🐰🕳️ I went… 🤬😩

I was going to suggest that you reach out to the person who wrote the blog post below, but I see in the comments that he’s already been asked to upload the install media to #InternetArchive and has declined

the article might be of interest to you anyway – he lists his install configs & also links to video playlists of installations of lots of (all? 🤔) versions…

…which are on the official VMware YT channel 🤔

ah, OK. it looks like he currently works for #Broadcom, so that’s probably a dead end as far as getting the installers that he has (access to) preserved on IA 😕
 
 
How to install all versions of ESX and ESXi in VM?

https://williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-install-all-versions-of-esx-and-esxi-in-vm.html
 
 
it’s so frustrating that vendors don’t just make this available as part of preserving their own product history, if nothing else. I sincerely doubt that anyone’s going to be downloading & running ESX 1.5 in production 20+ years later to avoid buying the current version 🤪

what I’d really like to see is legislation that mandates that all no-longer-supported software be made available publicly & released into the commons, but given the US is allergic to regulating just about anything I don’t see that happening any time soon 😩

#DigiPres
#VMware #GSX #ESX #ESXi
#VintageSoftware
#RetroComputing
  

More fun from the Internet Archive: Invaders from Mars (1953)

https://archive.org/details/invaders-from-mars-1953_202209

actually filmed in color (sort of). Technically, there's only one invader, though he does have a bunch of muscle to help him? Also, in this whole film, I didn't see a single cigarette being lit, which is impressive for the time.

#movie #1950s #internetArchive #aliens #scifi

More fun from the Internet Archive: Invaders from Mars (1953)

https://archive.org/details/invaders-from-mars-1953_202209

actually filmed in color (sort of). Technically, there's only one invader, though he does have a bunch of muscle to help him? Also, in this whole film, I didn't see a single cigarette being lit, which is impressive for the time.

#movie #1950s #internetArchive #aliens #scifi

Light on the Back of an Eye

https://uneasy.in/0fb9921 #InternetArchive #MediaArchaeology #Memory

Light on the Back of an Eye

https://uneasy.in/0fb9921 #InternetArchive #MediaArchaeology #Memory

First time I've seen errors like this on the #InternetArchive

First time I've seen errors like this on the #InternetArchive

#Enshitification : Poopunk muzak for poocore lovers in #freedownload here https://yoshiwaku.bandcamp.com/album/enshitification Released on #InternetArchive too but so big shit that it broke the player ! #shitcore #poopcore #extreme #experimental #industrial #shit #weird #odd #insane #strange #outsider #music #noiserock #ccmusic #creativecommons

Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing #harddrive prices due to the AI boom — #WaybackMachine and #Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots
#InternetArchive, whose mission is to provide "universal access to all knowledge," is one of the organizations affected by this crisis. Holds 210PB of archives, with another 100TB added daily to the Wayback Machine.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratospheric-storage-pricing-and-stricter-anti-scraping-measures-blocking-the-wrong-bots

Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing #harddrive prices due to the AI boom — #WaybackMachine and #Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots
#InternetArchive, whose mission is to provide "universal access to all knowledge," is one of the organizations affected by this crisis. Holds 210PB of archives, with another 100TB added daily to the Wayback Machine.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratospheric-storage-pricing-and-stricter-anti-scraping-measures-blocking-the-wrong-bots

I fucking hate seeing that when I try to find an archived page, I get "404 - page not found".

"All the nightmares came today,
and it looks as though they're here to stay"
[David Bowie, Oh! you pretty things]

#internetarchive #internet #ObjectPermanence #ObjectPermanenceNoMore

I fucking hate seeing that when I try to find an archived page, I get "404 - page not found".

"All the nightmares came today,
and it looks as though they're here to stay"
[David Bowie, Oh! you pretty things]

#internetarchive #internet #ObjectPermanence #ObjectPermanenceNoMore