Posts by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
(DIR) Post #Aqvv9bfCuZvRUACpIO by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-02-08T20:07:28Z
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https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/
(DIR) Post #ArEqwM9wId6naVK3OK by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-02-18T01:12:31Z
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Power outage at the internet archive. Systems will take a little while to get up.
(DIR) Post #ArHaG7WXJAOuF2btGi by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-02-19T16:13:47Z
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Someone has made it his mission to try and spam the archive's uploads with links to their junky malware-filled ebooks site. Something like 2,500 false ebook uploads in a day. It takes time to clean this out and defend it against it, but that's all in a day's work. In another few hours they'll realize it's not working, walk away, and then we never hear from them again.Wednesday!
(DIR) Post #ArHacCDOXxWdA7BQzw by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2024-12-07T18:06:43Z
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The archive is absolutely overrun with my favorite kind of scanned history: Family or community cookbooks, including art and writing style befitting the audience they're intended for, often the other parts of the family or people.Has there even been more love than shared food ingredients in a spiral-bound photocopy
(DIR) Post #Arf3kuFvV3KQrwXEsy by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-03-03T00:31:47Z
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In 2022, I introduced the project DISCMASTER, which is a unique project to make the internals of tens of thousands of 1990s-2000s CD-ROMs findable in a semantic search.Today, I'm announcing the team has now made DISCMASTER 2, a ground-up rewrite with so much improvement.http://discmaster.textfiles.com
(DIR) Post #Arf3kvOpFS2cPphrOa by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-03-03T00:32:18Z
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If you missed it the first time, DISCMASTER does semantic search after analyzing hundreds of millions of files locked deep down inside ISOs and BINs of CD-ROMs from the era when the CD-ROM reigned. We've already found long-lost media, buried citations, and forgotten applications and items. What now?
(DIR) Post #Arf3kwT7Gz4FjQiniq by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-03-03T00:32:24Z
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The new system will also be ingesting new CD-ROMs. How many? There are 20,000 it is beginning the process of adding. Within a few months, DISCMASTER will have a grip on so much material that otherwise would be endless time for researchers and fans to find. It's going to be amazing.
(DIR) Post #ArsoVMYnibeMv9vtKa by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-03-09T14:57:14Z
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It's my 14th year work anniversary at Internet Archive!
(DIR) Post #AsObVCZ3JzYZnEa8lU by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-03-24T17:06:59Z
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What have we here!https://www.internetarchive.eu/
(DIR) Post #AtDXACWDmD4YluaRyC by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-04-18T13:46:48Z
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It was only a matter of time - a contracted, approved grant to the Internet Archive was cut with no warning.https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge-neh-funding-cuts-sf/
(DIR) Post #AtTbSalVsK3VWu7iJk by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-04-26T06:12:36Z
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It'd be cool if you signed this petition.https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive
(DIR) Post #AvCl4aiKij7QeI6atk by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:47:53Z
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The Internet Archive gets many donations over the months and years - some are dealt with immediately, while others might not be gotten to for some time, or are redundant. In one case, a treasure trove sat for a few years and has finally come online: The Bob Lardine Tapes.https://archive.org/details/boblardinetapesThere are three sets of materials here: Interviews, Personal Tapes, and Jewish Hour Radio Tapes. Let's talk about the first.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4f4oV5TgBAebUe by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:49:47Z
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Bob Lardine was a journalist all his life, doing writing and interviews. Among his long history, these interview tapes are from his time working for the NY Post in the 1970s and 1980s. His work included the Hollywood beat, talking to actors, producers and directors about their projects and life, and then putting them into the Sunday NY Post edition.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4jfpPPSkR80Dk8 by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:50:44Z
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These are audio tapes he used to do those interviews. He would often use the same tape multiple times, overwriting with each new interview, but he obviously didn't know I'd be coming down the line decades later.In the 56 interview tapes we recovered, digitized, and put up, we have extensive interviews with stars both here and gone, television and movies, stars at the end of their careers and stars just starting out, speculating on what comes next.All are of spectacularly terrible quality.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4njsIJ4n2pvVbc by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:52:21Z
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Clearly, Bob would put the tape machine on the table in the dressing trailer, restaurant, or home of the interviewee and let it rip while he took notes. I suspect he was working mostly off the notes and just kept the tapes as a drop-dead verification he wrote something down. But we get to hear the tone, thoughts, and voices of the people being interviewed, and it's quite illuminating. Bob is a VERY good interviewer, and these stars are not putting up a front as they chat.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4sN14ilLPOGpAe by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:55:00Z
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A personal favorite for me is Henry Winkler, just recently given co-star status on Happy Days in the third season, and speculating about where his career could go. People have talked about how Winkler seems so gentle and thoughtful in interviews for later years, but he's definitely like that here: Humble, realizing his luck, worried about typecasting, respecting his temporary status on the "throne", and being ready for the next stage of life when it comes.https://archive.org/details/Henry_Winkler_Interview_by_Bob_Lardine
(DIR) Post #AvCl4wgf1cqwnTUZLU by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-17T00:00:03Z
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Finally, there's another bit of precious history in these tapes that came out - Bob did work with something called the Jewish Hour in Arizona, which was syndicated to other parts of the country. It has Yiddish sequences, songs, and other aspects of variety and news radio, and as far as my multiple searches can tell, there's basically no information on the net about this. And here we have recordings!https://archive.org/details/Jewish_Hour_Recordings_And_Interviews
(DIR) Post #AvCl51RbL2mHYDU74C by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-17T00:01:59Z
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I hope there's other amazing recordings out there, other sets we can bring to life. If there are, I'll be proud to do it.
(DIR) Post #AvkBYJ9TiN3J1yUMRk by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-07-03T03:21:24Z
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Loren and Roger Cox were two brothers whose lives were radio and satellite. They collected them and loved them. When Loren and then Roger died, the antique radios were sold. But the reels of media were considered trash. Tim Stamps saved them, and helped get the rest to the Archive.Tim has digitized the first 300+ reel to reels from the brothers, and they're amazing:https://archive.org/details/loren_and_roger_cox
(DIR) Post #Awsfp1rEKigDwYxiT2 by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-08-06T02:32:02Z
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My favorite unhinged tech documentary, SEEKING MAVIS BEACON, is showing at the Internet Archive this Friday. I can't make it but you definitely should, if you can. It'll change how you think these retro-computing docs need to go.https://blog.archive.org/event/screening-seeking-mavis-beacon-documentary/