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The Internet Archive & The Wayback Machine

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The Internet Archive is awesome enough to leave me speechless. I wandered into it through the NitroExpress site, where I noticed that the downloadable hunting books books had been digitized by Microsoft. A little research led me to the Archive.

Man, does it have information!

The Open Library has 23 million catalog records of books, in addition to the full texts of over 1,861,000 digitized books, with another thousand a day being added; An Audio Section with over 73,150 concert and music recordings and 472,242 recordings of news broadcasts, audio books and old time radio shows; 247,257 movies, feature films and newsreels, classic cartoons, pro- and anti-war propaganda, Skip Elsheimer's "A.V. Geeks" collection; and ephemeral things like advertising, educational and industrial films and amateur and home movie collections; NASA's image, video, and audio collections; and even a Software Section with all kinds of rare or difficult to find, legally downloadable, software titles and background information on those titles.

Top this off with their Wayback Machine, which has cataloged and preserved almost all the Internet's websites and all of their incremental changes from 1996 to today, with over 150 billion web pages archived.

And yeah, it is all searchable.

In their words: Most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture and heritage. Without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form. The Archive's mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars.

There are no restrictions on what you download or how you use it. Have fun.

Cool factoid: The world's greatest library was founded by Ptolomy at Alexandria, Egypt. When it burned in 40 A.D.a tremendous storehouse of the knowledge of antiquity was lost forever . The Internet Archive is now mirrored there, so when California shakes into the ocean all THIS knowledge will not be lost.

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