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Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs – Dan Q

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:08:15 +0000

I’ve talked about imagemaps before, but the essence of them is that you define areas of an image that, when clicked, hyperlink to different places. The most-common way of doing these was always client-side imagemaps, where the HTML code itself contained all of the coordinates and, crucially, the resulting destinations. But that’s not what kind of imagemap this is.

Tags: #archives #gifs #icons #webdev

Backing up Spotify - Anna’s Blog

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:52:17 +0000

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs. It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

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Taking regular screenshots of my website – alexwlchan

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:45:09 +0000

I was mulling over this for a while, and I had an idea. I like having a set of screenshots as a visual history of the stuff I’ve worked on (including this site), but I’m not very good at remembering to create them. I just finished a bunch of design tweaking on this site, and I completely forgot to take a screenshot of what it looked like before I started making changes.

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Using static websites for tiny archives – alexwlchan

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:05:15 +0000

Because this system has no moving parts, and it’s just files on a disk, I hope it will last a long time. I’ve already migrated a lot of my files to this approach, and I’m pleased with how it’s going. I get all the simplicity and portability of a file full of folders, with just a bit of extra functionality sprinkled on top.

Tags: #archives #hosting #static #webdev

International Center for the History of Electronic Games

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:06:20 +0000

The International Center for the History of Electronic Games® (ICHEG) at The Strong collects, studies, and interprets video games, other electronic games, and related materials and the ways in which electronic games are changing how people play, learn, and connect with each other, including across boundaries of culture and geography.

Tags: #archives #feeds:subscriptions #gaming #history #imported:opml #videogames

MAME 0.151 ROMs : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:31:56 +0000

MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

Tags: #archives #gaming #imported:pinboard #mame #mess #videogames

Yahoo Kills Upcoming, Archive Team Saves the Day | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:20:51 +0000

Of course there’s a well known group of people that have made something of an art out of saving disappearing internet data — the Archive Team, headed by computer historian Jason Scott.

Tags: #archives #history #imported:pinboard #to:fb #upcoming #yahoo

Yahoo Kills Upcoming, Archive Team Saves the Day | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:20:51 +0000

Of course there’s a well known group of people that have made something of an art out of saving disappearing internet data — the Archive Team, headed by computer historian Jason Scott.

Tags: #archives #history #to:fb #upcoming #yahoo

Change Computer History Forever: Well, Here We Are « ASCII by Jason Scott

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:01:41 +0000

This is it, folks. This is the ideal world I’ve heard whispered about, referenced, and planned for a very long time. It’s here. I know you might have expected it to land with an earth-shattering boom but it was a slow and steady flowering on the Internet Archive’s servers. The Archive of Historical Computer Software is here, and it is very, very large. Blow me away.

Tags: #archives #history #imported:pinboard #software #to:fb

Yahoo! Has Probably Destroyed the Most History, Ever – And Historians Need to Wake Up | Ian Milligan

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:56:09 +0000

This stuff matters. If we want to be the profession that leads the way in understanding and interpreting the past, we should be part of this conversation, or at the very least learn and see how we can help out. I should note here, quickly, that I know there are historians who care. I follow them on Twitter and they’re awesome. But they’re a small minority of the profession, and that needs to change. This doesn’t just affect digital historians, it affects historians. Our very profession.

Tags: #archives #archiveteam #archivists #historians #history #imported:pinboard #messages #preservation #to:fb #yahoo

Yahoo! Has Probably Destroyed the Most History, Ever – And Historians Need to Wake Up | Ian Milligan

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:56:09 +0000

Tags: #archives #archiveteam #archivists #historians #history #messages #preservation #to:fb #yahoo

Technical books online

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:49:03 +0000

I've found that most of the technical books published before about 1964 never had their copyrights renewed, so now are in the public domain. So I am endeavoring to digitize and post some selected books relating to the "vacuum tube age" of electronics here.

Tags: #archives #books #diy #electronics #imported:pinboard

Archivists' Toolkit | For archivists by archivists

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:28:07 +0000

The Archivists’ Toolkit™, or the AT, is the first open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives. It is intended for a wide range of archival repositories. The main goals of the AT are to support archival processing and production of access instruments, promote data standardization, promote efficiency, and lower training costs

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Archivists' Toolkit | For archivists by archivists

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:28:07 +0000

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Encoded Archival Description Tag Library - Version 2002 (EAD Official Site, Library of Congress)

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:27:43 +0000

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