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  1. 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?? 🙃


    #liner-notes #album-credits #musicians #music #give-credit-to-the-band #who-wrote-that-song #who-arranged-it #internet-archive #database #music-archive #liner-notes-archive #album-art-archive #album-art
  2. 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?? 🙃


    #liner-notes #album-credits #musicians #music #give-credit-to-the-band #who-wrote-that-song #who-arranged-it #internet-archive #database #music-archive #liner-notes-archive #album-art-archive #album-art
  3. Human Legacy And The Preservation Of Knowledge

    The preservation of digital information is a problem that humans have tried to combat ever since the internet’s inception. There’s the Internet Archive, IPFS (Inter Planetary File System), and other various attempts to figure out how to preserve what we do, but the very concept of preservation is itself a difficult task. How do we humans ensure that our knowledge, or at least our ways of thinking about the world, is passed on to future generations, and can that knowledge last in […]

    johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/

  4. Human Legacy And The Preservation Of Knowledge

    The preservation of digital information is a problem that humans have tried to combat ever since the internet’s inception. There’s the Internet Archive, IPFS (Inter Planetary File System), and other various attempts to figure out how to preserve what we do, but the very concept of preservation is itself a difficult task. How do we humans ensure that our knowledge, or at least our ways of thinking about the world, is passed on to future generations, and can that knowledge last in […]

    johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/

  5. 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. 😨

  6. 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. 😨

  7. @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?

    williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-
     
     
    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
      

  8. @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?

    williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-
     
     
    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
      

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

    archive.org/details/invaders-f

    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

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

    archive.org/details/invaders-f

    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

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

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

  13. 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.
    tomshardware.com/pc-components

  14. 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.
    tomshardware.com/pc-components

  15. 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

  16. 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]

  17. It finally happened.

    Someone correctly called Donald Trump a pedophile to his face.

    And all I want to know is where is the video. We need to put that video on Internet Archive.

    jp.ibtimes.com/trump-called-pa

    #DonaldTrump #Trump #Pedophile #MAGA #InternetArchive

  18. It finally happened.

    Someone correctly called Donald Trump a pedophile to his face.

    And all I want to know is where is the video. We need to put that video on Internet Archive.

    jp.ibtimes.com/trump-called-pa

    #DonaldTrump #Trump #Pedophile #MAGA #InternetArchive

  19. Well bother, my #InternetArchive uploading script had a bug, and I've overwritten something I uploaded a couple of days ago. I'm glad they keep a history directory (although I do also have local backups of course).

  20. 3/3 …and concluded with the screening, bookended by an introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Denah Johnston.

    Photos courtesy of Sterling Dudley.

    #Morocco1930 #MarleneDietrich #FilmHistory #InternetArchive

  21. 3/3 …and concluded with the screening, bookended by an introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Denah Johnston.

    Photos courtesy of Sterling Dudley.

    #Morocco1930 #MarleneDietrich #FilmHistory #InternetArchive

  22. #TIL that #InternetArchive won't show #subtitles in .sub format, but you can easily convert to .srt format (which IS shown by IA) online at sites like subtitletools.com/convert-to-s

  23. #TIL that #InternetArchive won't show #subtitles in .sub format, but you can easily convert to .srt format (which IS shown by IA) online at sites like subtitletools.com/convert-to-s

  24. Para relembrar quem ainda tenha #blog no #SAPO , e não queira perder o seu conteúdo, que está na altura de fazer o backup e exportar para outro alojamento antes do próximo dia 30 (de Junho).

    Seria bom ver a migração para sites como o nosso Masto.pt, mas parece que o Blogger é o vencedor...🤷‍♀️

    Entretanto, uma boa opção para a preservação de memória é o #InternetArchive com o serviço #WaybackMachine .

    Parlamento recomenda preservação da memória digital do Sapo – Observador
    observador.pt/2026/06/24/parla

  25. Para relembrar quem ainda tenha #blog no #SAPO , e não queira perder o seu conteúdo, que está na altura de fazer o backup e exportar para outro alojamento antes do próximo dia 30 (de Junho).

    Seria bom ver a migração para sites como o nosso Masto.pt, mas parece que o Blogger é o vencedor...🤷‍♀️

    Entretanto, uma boa opção para a preservação de memória é o #InternetArchive com o serviço #WaybackMachine .

    Parlamento recomenda preservação da memória digital do Sapo – Observador
    observador.pt/2026/06/24/parla

  26. I didn't know I needed a full band version of You Were Cool, but I kinda needed a full band version of You Were Cool. ❤️🎶

    #TheMountainGoats #Music #LiveArchive #InternetArchive #Bootlegs

    archive.org/details/tMG2026-05

  27. I didn't know I needed a full band version of You Were Cool, but I kinda needed a full band version of You Were Cool. ❤️🎶

    #TheMountainGoats #Music #LiveArchive #InternetArchive #Bootlegs

    archive.org/details/tMG2026-05

  28. @catsalad I saw this recently on the #InternetArchive & saved it for similar reasons of amusement… 🙃

    #YoRobot
    #IRobot
    #Asimov  

  29. @catsalad I saw this recently on the #InternetArchive & saved it for similar reasons of amusement… 🙃

    #YoRobot
    #IRobot
    #Asimov  

  30. 2/2 As librarians, academics, booksellers, and collectors embrace social media and digitization, historic collections are reaching readers far beyond the walls of any one institution.

    From “When Preservation Meets Social Media,” by journalist Caralee Adams, part of the Vanishing Culture report.

    📖 Download & read:
    archive.org/details/vanishing-

    🛒 Purchase in print:
    betterworldbooks.com/product/d

    @book-historia.bsky.social #VanishingCulture #InternetArchive

  31. 2/2 As librarians, academics, booksellers, and collectors embrace social media and digitization, historic collections are reaching readers far beyond the walls of any one institution.

    From “When Preservation Meets Social Media,” by journalist Caralee Adams, part of the Vanishing Culture report.

    📖 Download & read:
    archive.org/details/vanishing-

    🛒 Purchase in print:
    betterworldbooks.com/product/d

    @book-historia.bsky.social #VanishingCulture #InternetArchive

  32. So many #InternetArchive items have very long item IDs, I guess because they default to a normalised form of the title field. But so many short ones are still available! I've been uploading a bunch of `HMWnnn` IDs, and it does make things a feel neater.

    Not that I'm advocating for trying to be uniform with IDs or anything (because imagine uploading a thousand and then finding that the next one must be out of form — it'd be very frustrating, and one must Be Prepared for such disappointments).

  33. He empezado a subir mis fanzines antiguos a @internetarchive para que puedan leerse y descargarse y no desaparezcan en el olvido.

    I've started uploading my old fanzines to the Internet Archive so they can be read and downloaded and don't disappear into oblivion.

    archive.org/details/@ericafust

    Give me five, 2015
    ¿Hay alguien ahí?, 2015
    Caracola, 2016
    Diario de lo que aconteció..., 2023

    #fanzines #internetarchive #mastoart

  34. Why we do this work…

    by @beet_keeper

    There aren’t many rewards in a discipline that is about taking the long term view but occasionally something comes up that you can take some pride in.

    Last month, Ed Summers put out a call on Mastodon: digipres.club where he was wrestling with a CD-R format that was difficult to recognize. The disks likely held precious data belonging to his late brother.

    Much of the search area had already been examined and narrowed down by folks in the community, including Misty de Meo, Roxi Ruuska, Ethan Gates, and Johan van der Knijff who all contributed suggestions and analysis..

    Ed was able to share a copy of one of his disk images, and I had some time that I could dedicate to taking a look as well.

    Long-story short, we were able to identify the disks, and Ed has written up the background here: inkdroid.org/2026/06/12/tascam

    The situation might be familiar to others: a digital file that isn’t recognized by the major file format identification tools, and yet, because of its context, you know it is something that might be important.

    I have different experiences with these types of files, sometimes they are valuable (and you want to look after them), sometimes they are not (and it can still benefit you to get rid of them). The process of finding this out often follows a similar path.

    In this instance the files turned out to be incredibly valuable and I wanted to elaborate on the path of discovery. Even though it really isn’t very sophisticated, I hope it will be helpful to those with unidentified digital records who might find the task of identifying them quite daunting.


    #DAW #digipres #DigitalForensics #digitalHeritage #DigitalPreservation #internetArchive #MusicProduction #personalDigitalArchiving #TASCAM #TEAC #WebArchives #webArchiving