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Weekly Summary 03/02/2020
Get ready to dramatically throw off your coats, and say "welcome" to spring! As a wise man once said: "Spring is the time of plans and projects", everyone (including us…
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How the Annotation Worker …Worked
So the annotation thing. You remember that, right? Well, here is how the worker seemed to function. Note that I'm getting this information from a brief cursory glance (and chatting…
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Weekly Summary 02/24/2020
This week was rather calm, with mostly positive developments. A quick update on the Bethesda forums from last week: The shutdown has been rescheduled to March 9th, so that's 2…
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Weekly Summary 02/17/2020
The focus of this week is a new Archiving Project on documenting information around us about the recent Coronavirus outbreak. The Internet Archive and the IIPC are working together to…
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Keep Circulating the Tapes
If you recognize the title, chances are you know what I'm about to talk about. For those of you who don't, the phrase appeared in the credits of the first…
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Weekly Summary 02/10/2020
The main event this week has been recovery efforts following the fire that broke out near the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) back in January. MOCA is deeply saddened…
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MSN Messenger is Back!
Think about the first instant messaging service that you used. Chances are it has been discontinued many years ago and got replaced by today's giants such as Skype or Discord.…
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Weekly Summary 02/03/2020
A warm welcome to a cold February! This week we have some updates on Yahoo Groups, and a couple of shutdowns. We recently passed the deadline for the shutdown of…
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Why is this important? Or, the story of Victor Trembly
So let's start off with a story. It's 2013 and I've just found out Homestar Runner made a reappearance. Strong Bad gets his name wrong and calls him Homestuck. I…
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Saving Private Groups: This Time the Mission is the Fan
In a little more than 24 hours Yahoo Groups will be biting the dust, if you were once a member of a community or perhaps own and/or know an owner…