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The purpose of this website is to catalogue the data available on Internet Archive, since their organization doesn't lend itself well to a "human-readable" view of their content. | The purpose of this website is to catalogue the data available on Internet Archive, since their organization doesn't lend itself well to a "human-readable" view of their content. | ||
| − | IA contains endless petabytes of information, but how can we find it? Where should you put a link to that neat computer history story you found in a random PDF collection, or remember which shareware disc you got a neat 90s game from? You found sixteen discs in an eighteen-disc set in one collection, then two more in another - how can you help someone else find the rest without meticulously updating every single description? You could run your own website, but who has time for that these days? | + | IA contains endless petabytes of information, but how can we find it? Where should you put a link to that neat computer history story you found in a random PDF collection, or remember which shareware disc you got a neat 90s game from? You found sixteen discs in an eighteen-disc set in one collection, then two more in another - how can you help someone else find the rest without meticulously updating every single description? You could run your own website, but who has time for that these days? We need "'''Geocities, but for Internet Archive.'''" |
== What're We Doing About It? == | == What're We Doing About It? == | ||
Revision as of 10:45, 6 February 2019
Welcome to Archivetown!
The purpose of this website is to catalogue the data available on Internet Archive, since their organization doesn't lend itself well to a "human-readable" view of their content.
IA contains endless petabytes of information, but how can we find it? Where should you put a link to that neat computer history story you found in a random PDF collection, or remember which shareware disc you got a neat 90s game from? You found sixteen discs in an eighteen-disc set in one collection, then two more in another - how can you help someone else find the rest without meticulously updating every single description? You could run your own website, but who has time for that these days? We need "Geocities, but for Internet Archive."
What're We Doing About It?
Let's make a repository of links and information about Archive's incredible content. It'll help us keep track of what we find, share our discoveries with others, make IA's content more discoverable, and above all else, advance the mission of all archivists: to keep information available and accessible to everyone!
What Belongs Here?
Anything you want, as long as it's focused on IA:
- Commentary on videotape rips
- Hand-collated lists of software titles you found personally interesting, with screenshots next to each one
- A ranking of comparative quality between shareware CDs
- Huge machine-generated tables listing every file in a collection with its metadata
The rule of thumb is, as long as there's a link to an item on IA, you're good!
