Posted inNews
Invidious Shutting Down
So, you remember when we wrote about annotations? Well, the site we have them stored on is going down, namely invidious, the open-source YouTube frontend. Omar, the person running it,…
Posted inHistory
Unusual Beginnings on Google Video; YouTube CC History pt.1
YouTube's Community Contributions are going away soon, but did you ever wonder how the idea for this feature came about? And would you believe me if I told you that it doesn't even start on YouTube...
Posted inNews
Adobe’s “End of Life” Killswitch for Flash Player
3 years ago Adobe announced their plans to end their development and support for Flash Player on December 31, 2020, the "end of life" date. More recently they've authored an…
Posted inTutorial
How To Find a Speech or Talk on YouTube
Trying to remember where a quote is from? YouTube actually has a hidden feature which you can use to search for a speech, if you know a portion of it.…
Posted inNews
The Impact of YouTube Removing Community-Contributed Closed Captions
For about a decade now, YouTube has supported one form or another of contributing closed captions on videos which don't already have them. Which is why it is an absolutely HORRIBLE idea that they've decided to remove them by September 28, without offering any real alternatives.
Posted inNews
Search for Sound: A New Feature on Internet Archive
If you've been browsing the Internet Archive recently, you might have noticed a new search option called "Search radio transcripts". You can now search through radio broadcasts as if looking…
Posted inCommunity Spotlight
Puyo Puyo Preservers!
Puyo Puyo Preservation Place is an archive team dedicated to one very particular series: Puyo Puyo. ...which probably could have been guessed. Now, they aren't just uploading the games online…
Posted inNews
Classic Google Sites To Disappear Starting November 1, 2020
I recently received an email from Google stating that websites created in the original version of Google Sites need to be converted to the new Google Sites format. Sites that…