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Project Gutenberg turns 54!

On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart had the idea of using a computer to read and enjoy literature. This innovation led to the creation of Project Gutenberg, which continues to thrive today.
via @gbnewby

You can read more about the history of Project Gutenberg in our 50th anniversary writeup:

https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html

#Ebooks#PublicDomain

I had the honour to be invited by @ZFAVClub to participate in an online live workshop exploring the mighty and wonderful CLI tool of the @internetarchive, in collaboration with @dweb 💕

If you are interested in data preservation and digital commons, please do watch it, as we did our best to shed some light on the most powerful yet little known features of this software.

The #InternetArchive is an invaluable resource for unlimited, public, open, and free storage for the whole Universe. It seems too good to be true, but it is!

We also touched upon the value of #FreeSoftware, #Linux, #decentralization, and #publicDomain.

https://archive.org/details/youtube-8Pr05zlXdlo

#archive#commonGood #librarian #library #hacker #hacking #hackerLibrarian#DWeb#CLI #terminal #tutorial#Python #workshop

You can watch classic public domain films on PeerTube, there's a playlist at:

🍿 https://fedi.video/w/p/fHrzK7h9WDaR2dmLRPszeM

(This is the sound film playlist, the silent film playlist is at https://fedi.video/w/p/sp9msEzM8z5SPZuizBzxFG)

- On a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

- On a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

- If you're watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

cc @film

#Film#Movies#PublicDomain#PeerTube