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The Web Archive was first noticed as a Library of web sites no longer visible online. Over time it has added a text search function, and constantly-growing stockpiles of moving images, audio files, text files, and more.

Broadband connections come in handy viewing film footage of the 1936 flood in Pittsburgh and a 1937 newsreel (including the Hindenburg crash, and the Redskins-Bears championship game), as well as the anti-pornography warnings of Charles Keating. More than a few BBR members will remember the actual Duck and Cover drills of the 1950's, and how Bert the Turtle saved millions from nuclear annihilation.

Full text and illustrations of The Wizard of Oz and a full-text version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol are available.

The
Live Music Archive contains hundreds of concerts form this 1973 Little Feat show to the present. Some concert file sizes are huge; be glad for broadband.

They're also offering great deals on the new 1960 Fords for BBR members browsing the television commercials.

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Bobcat
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December 28th, @10:00AM

Not for me

I don't want that site archiving one of the web sites I run, so I explicitly instructed them not to archive my site by putting the following in my robots.txt file:
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

First post in this topic!

Doctor Olds
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Re: Not for me

And they respect that wish. I however find myself using them more and more and I hope that less and less people that put up websites take the anti-archive (using robots.txt) measure you do.

I can find a book that's out of print for 40 years, but a website that is gone after a year or two is just gone forever. It's a sad thing and they perform a very valuable service in my humble opinion.

I can only hope that you one day soon see the benefits of their service. Or if your site content isn't worth preserving, that's fine too, as it leaves more room for site content that is.

Regards,

Doctor Olds

Bobcat
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December 28th, @10:35AM

Re: Not for me

In my case, there are pages on the site that change on a weekly basis, and we don't want people to be able to see the old content. (That way, our words won't come back to bite us in the future! )

Doctor Olds
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Re: Not for me

They don't archive that frequently. Go check them out.

I was looking for info on an old modem by Efficient that has removed their pages on it. I had the old page bookmarked and found what I needed to assist someone in the Efficient Forum. It's very cool.

This is the old link (dead and gets redirected to newer content)
»www.efficient.com/products/modeth.html

This is what's available at the Way Back Machine.
»web.archive.org/web/*/www.effici···eth.html

Regards,

Doctor Olds

storm64007
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December 28th, @12:16PM

Re: Not for me

I have been using this site for years. The moving images archive is excellent. The Prelinger archives of videos and films is amazing.The live concert sections is really good.

xdeadhead
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how is this news?

i also have been using this site for years now....i guess to some this will be news....o well.
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Re: how is this news?

I think it's news. I've used the site before, but not recently. It's good to see that the site keeps expanding to include more types of media.

Even old software could be archived now.
»www.archive.org/about/dmca.php
Now they just need to archive us old folks

ArchAngel21x
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said by Bobcat See Profile:
In my case, there are pages on the site that change on a weekly basis, and we don't want people to be able to see the old content. (That way, our words won't come back to bite us in the future! )

I hope people have enough common sense to realize, if they are viewing your Web site from an archive, that it is outdated stuff. IE, anything they are looking at can't be considered valid or legally binding today.
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Stop Whining!

This is a great site!

»www.archive.org/movies/movies.php

You just have to look around.
dweeb

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Re: Stop Whining!

This is an excellent site. You gotta see some of the old videos, they are classic! You can easily download a few gigs in 1 day here.

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Re: Stop Whining!

I'm watching the Lewis & Clark expedition right now.

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edit:
December 28th, @02:31PM

The bad thing about the music..

...is that it's not organized in to genres, and I think a lot of it is electronic. Well, the open source audio is catagorized into genres. Anyway, this site is great.

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December 28th, @02:35PM

good luck

Good luck finding some of the best site material that is .php, the "Alexa robot" is about as dumb as rock. I couldn't find any good things that I wanted to see because of it.

An official replied to an e-mail from me a month ago, and told be that their system has problems archiving .php, or other similar flash, or macromedia ware type webpages.

major marco
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Nostalgic Images No Thanks to DMCA

A high speed connection is not the only thing that's nice about the archived site. The author of the byline completely missed that fact that much of the materials found there were copyrighted and then passed into the public domain for all to see freely.

Fast forward to 1998 when the abomination known as the DMCA »anti-dmca.org/ was passed by bought-off Congressional dittoheads. The web archive epitomizes everything that is wrong with the DMCA because had it been in effect when works like the Wizard of Oz were en vogue, then we'd never get to see any of the images or likenesses associated with the very concept without paying someone for it.
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Commercials

I was in my glory spending hours watching all the old commercials. What was more shocking was how many I remembered. Once again, I learn from dsl reports.
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