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Community Spotlight: r/DataHoarder
r/DataHoarder is perhaps one of the largest data hoarding groups out there. Once a humble subreddit, it now hosts over 200 thousand members!
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Weekly Summary 05/04/2020
Wunderlist shutting down, Flashpoint 8.0, a lost Sega Genesis game and more! ShutdownsAs a reminder, Wunderlist the planning app will be shutting down in a matter days. The app has…
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Justice For All
So guess what what just declared public domain? Everybody's favorite source of reading material: legal documents! So some context: a guy by the name of Carl Malamud runs a site…
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Weekly Summary 04/27/2020
This week, we're talking about Fanfic Scavangers and The Eye going to see an Ophthalmologist... A small circle of fan fiction writers/enthusiasts have set out on a mission to archive…
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Community Spotlight: BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint
Flashpoint is a preservation project, run by volunteers from across the internet, dedicated to capturing web content (primarily made in Adobe Flash) in a more compatible and longer lasting format.
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Weekly Summary 04/20/2020
Good Morning and Hello! In case you haven't noticed, we've got a new logo now, shoutouts to JoJo Lu for doing an amazing job! I'm glad to report that the…
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Kill Screen: The Namco Catalog IP Rescue! Interview with No Context Pacman
The Namco Catalog IP was a program launched by Bandai Namco, which allowed students and developers to use their intellectual property in making their games. In the short 4 (or…
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Weekly Summary 04/13/2020
I'd like to start things off by welcoming our latest contributor, gaiages. She'll be helping us as a writer/editor from now on, so be on the lookout! Starting things off…
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Archive (almost) Any Video on the Internet with YouTube-DL
YouTube-DL is a popular, open-source tool for downloading and archiving videos on the Internet. Contrary to its name, YouTube-DL doesn't just support downloading videos from YouTube. It actually supports downloading…
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Weekly Summary 04/06/2020
What a week this was! Drama, intrigue, adventure and more! Reception to the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library we mentioned last week has been quite mixed. While this has been…