📰 News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
jbz
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⚡ Flashpoint is an online library for flash games and animations
⚡ Flashpoint is an online library for flash games and animations
Quixoticgeek
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Amazing lost media news!
52-year-old 9-track tape found with Unix V4, the operating system that everything else came from. Only 20 copies ever existed. University of Utah found theirs in a storage closet, knew what they'd found, and got the help of the California Computer Museum to reconstruct the delicate data.
I really enjoyed reading this article, which treats its readers as capable of understanding, and explains some of the technical background and challenges. Kudos to the author Courtney Tanner for conveying the excitement of this find to the audience.
Original:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2026/01/07/university-utah-finds-tape-with/
Archive:
(I realize the irony of having to link the archive article. SL Trib promises they'll remove their paywalls soon!)
#RetroComputing #LostMedia #ComputerHistory #technology #unix
Amazing lost media news!
52-year-old 9-track tape found with Unix V4, the operating system that everything else came from. Only 20 copies ever existed. University of Utah found theirs in a storage closet, knew what they'd found, and got the help of the California Computer Museum to reconstruct the delicate data.
I really enjoyed reading this article, which treats its readers as capable of understanding, and explains some of the technical background and challenges. Kudos to the author Courtney Tanner for conveying the excitement of this find to the audience.
Original:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2026/01/07/university-utah-finds-tape-with/
Archive:
(I realize the irony of having to link the archive article. SL Trib promises they'll remove their paywalls soon!)
#RetroComputing #LostMedia #ComputerHistory #technology #unix
Some years back there was a website that jokingly explained the different dysfunctional engineer personality types, and their relationship to one another. I can't find it now.
Does anyone else remember this website? Is it still around?
Feel free to boost.
alcinnz
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I talk about #lostmedia and media preservation sometimes (because I devote a somewhat significant amount of personal effort to the digitization, preservation, cataloging, and curation of various at risk or otherwise lost film and television programs. I talk about it because I'm working to overcome it!)
So I probably think about this more than most folks, I guess?
But do you ever consider how the magnitude of significance of the loss of any given piece of lost film is essentially unknowable?
We might have some contemporary press to depend on to tell us if a given film was good or not, but we might not! And even if we do, we have to trust them! The significance of a lot of films is only obvious in retrospect. Some of my favorite films were widely panned on initial release.
We'll never know what we lost.
I talk about #lostmedia and media preservation sometimes (because I devote a somewhat significant amount of personal effort to the digitization, preservation, cataloging, and curation of various at risk or otherwise lost film and television programs. I talk about it because I'm working to overcome it!)
So I probably think about this more than most folks, I guess?
But do you ever consider how the magnitude of significance of the loss of any given piece of lost film is essentially unknowable?
We might have some contemporary press to depend on to tell us if a given film was good or not, but we might not! And even if we do, we have to trust them! The significance of a lot of films is only obvious in retrospect. Some of my favorite films were widely panned on initial release.
We'll never know what we lost.
Andrew (Television Executive)
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NETV is proud to bring you authentic pieces of television history with our in-house digitization of "Space Patrol"!
https://newellijay.tv/shows/space-patrol/
This year marks the 75th anniversary of this groundbreaking sci-fi show. Join us on a journey back to the dawn of space adventure and experience the show that captured the imagination of a generation!
Tune in on New Ellijay Television to see history restored and rebroadcast.
#SciFi#Archive#Digitization#LostMedia#VintageTelevision#NewEllijayTV
NETV is proud to bring you authentic pieces of television history with our in-house digitization of "Space Patrol"!
https://newellijay.tv/shows/space-patrol/
This year marks the 75th anniversary of this groundbreaking sci-fi show. Join us on a journey back to the dawn of space adventure and experience the show that captured the imagination of a generation!
Tune in on New Ellijay Television to see history restored and rebroadcast.
#SciFi#Archive#Digitization#LostMedia#VintageTelevision#NewEllijayTV