Jason Scott
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Proprietor of , historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur.
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The moment of stunned silence after someone suggested the ad copy. The two days of trying to come up with alternatives and failing.
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I mentioned the whole way that the Jimmy Fallon/Paris Hilton strangely-stilted conversation regarding NFTs was likely part of a larger promotion plan and part of being a celebrity is being told to say weird stuff due to contracts.
Someone did the digging
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If ever a metaphor for the Tech industry existed in real life
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Spread the word: The Internet Archive has put up *25,000* 78rpm records, digitized professionally.
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I don't speak Portuguese, so spread as you see fit:
If you have Brazilian culture, content or data, please upload it directly to the Internet Archive, or mail hard drives out to us to store your material. An incredible amount of material is going to be lost. We will host it.
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Remember: Just because you made a game in 1994 when you were 12 and only gave away one copy, doesn't mean it won't smack you in the face 25 years later emulated in the browser on the Internet Archive.
@Srickshaw
Yeah but ... huh? How'd you find or hear about it? I don't even have a copy, it got lost, I think I only ever sent out a physical copy to 1 person and never even uploaded it to the Internet. (IIRC) Even Google has nothing on it
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For the record, this is the goofiest, most infantilizing rejection letter I've gotten since, maybe, first year of college?
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Discord Is Not an Archive
Treat it like a refrigerator with piles of post-it notes on front that constantly fall off when you reach inside to grab a beer
Anything else and you're fooling yourself
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great news, we won the war on terror all of a sudden
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The 1977 source code for ZORK has been recovered from MIT tapes and released on github. I cloned the repository at and the official MIT github set is at
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When the cofounder of Apple reports Apple Pay has a sexist algorithm
@dhh
@AppleCard
The same thing happened to us. I got 10x the credit limit. We have no separate bank or credit card accounts or any separate assets. Hard to get to a human for a correction though. It's big tech in 2019.
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Wired picked up the "we are scanning every book mentioned on Wikipedia as we can find them and making the cited pages readable" story
Which is a big story
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To celebrate the official launce of Google Stadia (
@GoogleStadia
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RIP Hiroshi Ono, a true artist whose works you may recognize.
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If you read the bible carefully, you will discover the angels look like this:
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Fuck You, Elon Musk
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The Internet Archive has begun emulating Flash Animations, Games and Toys in a new collection. It's at and it's going to be past 1,000 items in 24 hours. You can add your own and get them running, and the animations have never ran smoother or better.
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Let's be clear: I hate cryptocurrency but I especially hate Cryptocurrency Grifters. My cat, Sockington, has an account (
@sockington
) with a million plus followers. A group of these fucksticks have decided to make a "currency" around him.
These folks can go to hell.
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On this, the "Last Day for Flash", please let people who are sad know about
and we're at nearly 3,000 Flash games, animations and toys at the Internet Archive, all playing fine!
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Look, when Tim O'Reilly first coined "Web 2.0", it was a way of saying, roughly, that static HTML files on sites were going to be augmented, maybe replaced, by dynamic HTML that would update frequently.
By this approach, "Web 3.0" or "WEB3" would be the (already here) Web Apps.
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Announced Today: The
@internetarchive
is now emulating handheld toys and games, building on the work of the
@mamedev_org
team. These are not "remakes" but emulations of the original circuits. Announcement is here: spread the word widely.
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If you give the slightest whit of a care about 1980s-2000s computer and software history, your mind is about to be very blown. Some people worked very hard on this, and anonymous credit to them. So, set aside your week, this is going to be change everything for you.
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HELLO EVERYONE I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG WEEKEND BUT MANY OF YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO <shuffles through notes> DOWNLOADING OVER 80 GIGABYTES OF J2ME SOFTWARE PRESERVED BY A COALITION OF VOLUNTEERS AND DEDICATED COLLECTORS
THANK YOU NO FURTHER QUESTIONS
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But it's quite clear that this new thing with all these opportunistic scammers is something else
So, I know it won't catch on, but maybe instead when we see them go "WEB3", we go "Oh, the Scumbag Web"
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ANNOUNCING THE MYSPACE MUSIC DRAGON HOARD, a 450,000 song collection of mp3s from 2008-2010 on MySpace, gathered before they were all "deleted" by mistake. includes a link to a special custom search and play mechanism that lets you search and play songs.
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YOU'RE THE ARCHIVE NOW, DOG: Archive Team took a full copy of You're The Man Now Dog (YTMND) last year - should be playable in Wayback Machine now or soonish.
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I'm just going to leave it at "Private Jets Are Now Tax Free".
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When twitter made that ridiculous "delete all six-months-inactive accounts" declaration and
@archiveteam
put up a google form to nominate accounts to archive, 70% of the 10,000 requests were for a single person.
Here is the story of why.
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Well, Google, you're going to send the Panics of All Panics now.
Please indicate clearly if you will delete Youtube videos under this policy if they are sitting on many, many views, or are linked heavily. Because if so, the YouTubepocalypse is here.
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Wolfenstein 3D running in DOS running emulated in a browser running in a VR headset
Totally normal, life isn't moving too fast
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FOLKS, IT IS TIME ONCE AGAIN FOR ME TO ASK EVERYONE TO TRACK DOWN COLLECTIONS OF APPLE ][ FLOPPIES IN THEIR HOMES, SCHOOL BASEMENTS, AND STORAGE UNITS. 2017 HAS BEEN A BANNER YEAR FOR US AND WE HAVE IMAGED OVER 7,000 FLOPPIES, FINDING 5,000 UNIQUE ONES IN THE PROCESS.
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So, uh, hi everybody.
Internet Archive is in the process of adding in-browser emulation support for Commodore 64. Here's a collection of currently working and tested for at least booting properly. (10,500 as of this writing, but it's growing):
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Meanwhile, in Europe, the entire Amiga floppy collection of the Belgian cracking group Bamiga Sector One has been recovered and a great guy named Simon will be imaging them.
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50 year copyrights
What’s one thing the 1920s had that the 2020s should bring back?
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Hey, new Scumbag Web feature just dropped - you can buy and sell original artwork and they destroy the original in place for a token indicating you paid for it to be destroyed. Ah, Scumbag Web, you never change
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Anyone who doesn't think this is going to happen with Youtube is kidding themselves.
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ATTENTION USERS OF TWITTER. Did someone who know or know of make the huge mistake of dying before clicking through a 2019 Terms of Service for their twitter account? Do you want to honor their memory? Please fill out this form:
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People are uploading hundreds, absolutely HUNDREDS, of out of print instructional VHS tapes. I threw them all into a (still-growing!) collection here:
If there's something you needed to learn to do via grainy standard-def analog tape fuzz... it's go time
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Audacity and it's super-nice-except-fuck-you-dude project leader seem to be getting ahead of schedule on the ruination.
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JSTOR just opened a mass of their articles and books to the public - my pal would have liked it sooner
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I'm sorry to report that
@sockington
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Someone uploaded a WIP3OUT Press CD from the time of the release of the game, and it's a great insight into a variety of graphics and culture around early Playstation history. (1999)
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I've uploaded the entirety of source code of all Infocom text adventures/interactive fiction to Github. If you don't understand ZIL, and you probably don't, read this instruction manual.
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If you have ANYTHING on DVD-Rs or CDRs, PLEASE PLEASE transfer them off NOW. PLEASE. They are probably already dead. Please.
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Congratulations everybody the search engine bought the last 13 years of your GPS Data
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Oh, a Scumbag Web Conference is being held next week, in an alley
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Do you need fantastically good news you'll want to spread around?
The Internet Archive, recognizing the National Emergency in place, has created the National Emergency Library - an 1,400,000 ebook library with no waitlists (!!!)
Full details are here:
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Your pal Jason has a Friday Writing Assignment for you. I am sorry about that, but it's about the future of the Internet, so I hope you understand what's at stake here. It's for what seems like a very boring committee, but this committee is about to make some very big decisions.
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This. I want to go to Jail for this.
all right, this is a new one. a EULA on...fruit?!
'the recipient of the produce contained in this package agrees not to propagate or reproduce any portion of this produce, including "but not limited to" seeds, stems, tissue, and fruit.'
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Few examples of justice being meted out in the world can match the brothers finally receiving financial reward in what I hope is literally millions for their lifetime project of Dwarf Fortress.
This thread is 17 pages of people posting "yes" to the question of: "have all those ppl been playing free DF for 25 years and just waiting for an opportunity to pay $30?"
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Internet Archive is under attack. Someone is posting tens of thousands of posts, comments and other vectors and is crushing the system. We're working on it, sorry for the inconvenience.
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I was walking with a friend in Sunnyvale, and a cat started following us.
For 20 blocks.
After a while, we're worried we just lost someone's cat. and we go over to him and pick him up.
His tag said "I AM NOT LOST, I JUST LIKE FOLLOWING PEOPLE"
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Thank you to the 500,000 people who have visited this tweet. I'm delighted to see so much interest in the public domain. We take a one day break every year to celebrate the hundreds of thousands of works that become locked open.
Here's a great overview:
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Today, Jon Stewart testified about the important of extending the 9/11 fund past 2020, to handle the health and welfare of first responders who went to Ground Zero and worked there, suffering greatly in the years hence. I'd like to add something to that discussion, something new.
Jon Stewart testifies for September 11 Victim Compensation Fund: "Accountability doesn’t appear to be something that occurs in this chamber…I'm sorry if I sound angry and undiplomatic, but I am angry, and you should be too."
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Let's once again remember that the Internet Archive is hosting not only 65,000 Winamp Skins (!!) at - but we have a javascript-based Winamp emulator called WEBAMP that will create a working Winamp in the browser.
Also: Visit
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For decades, powerhouse Sears would not allow anything to be sold in their incredibly popular Christmas catalog that wasn't in their warehouses by September. In 1979, Atari sent several hundred Atari 400s in September with no parts inside, then issued a "recall" in October.
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Update: those ridiculous fridge door cover TVs are now starting to die meaning they are actually even worse than a pane of glass telling you what's inside
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The 30 year history of the World Wide Web seems to be one of barely glomming together a relatively robust, relatively well maintained set of information sources and then destroying them at the first sign of a company offering a slicker product.. which then spectacularly dies
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Someone downloaded 80,000 Winamp skins and is now selling them as NFTs. The person has been reported, and it'll wind down, but I'll say again that this isn't some strange anomaly; this is the very nature of what NFTs are. Absorb everything you can modularize into the goo. Forever
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This would be a fantastic week to say something about how the Internet Archive has helped you over the years. Quote-tweet or reply.
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Hey, so, don't tell anyone, but I'm announcing PalmPilot emulation at Internet Archive for the holidays, probably next week. All the currently-working items need descriptions, so it's not quite ready. Don't tell anybody, OK?
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Hey, great news, Google Chromium just started a war and I'm going to enjoy this one
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10.5 petabytes of space up at the Archive.
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I'm glad everyone is spreading the news and reacting.
...that we now have a scanned 1970s style guide for Bell System vehicle livery, including all major models and variations.
Your support during this time is appreciated.
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Think I'm hyping up? I'm going to do even worse. I'm not going to do anything but give you the URL.
Happy Exploring.
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The Internet Archive Wayback machine now has a feature called "Changes" in beta, if you visit it - the ability to now compare two snapshots and see the changes. This is huge.
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I'd be really sad if you got this far into 2020 without knowing about The Hidden Palace Prototype collection, where you can try prototypes of released and unreleased console games, in the browser, many of them saved from certain oblivion.
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Here's an announcement I say is among the biggest news of the year,
@internetarchive
-wise. We have acquired Better World Books and converted it into an affiliated non-profit.
INTERNET ARCHIVE NOW HAS A BOOKSTORE.
They will send us every unscanned book and we intend to scan it.
Announced at
#ChsConf2019
by
@Brewster_Kahle
:
@InternetArchive
&
@BWBooks
uniting to scan, preserve & provide access to more books than ever. “Now libraries can provide books to
@BWBooks
knowing a digital copy will be created if one doesn’t yet exist”
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