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Is a database of everything in the public domain, any format you can think of: videos, digital books, audio files, software files, etc., all available in any type of file you knew existed, and others you didn’t. It is a useful tool for finding archival video footage, any sort of audiobook you want to listen to, commercials aired on Cartoon Network in 2006, or incriminating documents on your enemies. Sometimes, when all my free trials of streaming services run out I spend the final lazy hours of my day browsing archive.org finding all sorts of esoterica like: Horses 2 (Wide Screen), The care and training of your pet rock [digital book], and Virtual Women 95 [computer program].
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Full of information, archives within archives. A lot of cool old government film clips and PSAs and science and educational films. Tons of books and audiobooks and really obscure/fringe writing from the whole spectrum of political thought as well as classics. Also going on the website wayback machine and looking for websites I made on Geocities when I was 12 is fun. Makes you feel like an archaeologist.
Sep 20, 2022
Jan 28, 2024
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The internet archive is just the greatest thing ever, i love it for the ephemeral films and lost home videos, old religious and esoteric manuscripts, textbooks, nasa photos, centuries’ worth of magazine issues, old records, lectures…. 💌
Jan 13, 2025
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my favorite youtube personality, makes incredibly insightful and charming videos about beach boys songs. She'll recreate or analyze entire songs and focus on specifics of different songs/eras of the beach boys. She focuses in on what interests me about the Brian Wilson, both the technical and emotional
Dec 11, 2023
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brilliant Geography songs with great production. British Isles, Former USSR, Eastern Europe, and Middle East are all highlights of the 34 track album but the true gem to me is Southeast Asia
Dec 11, 2023
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Was a Bizarre tennis superstar from the 70s and 80s. His tennis playing was graceless but amazing, he moved like an action figure, rarely came up to the net yet hit every ball spinless, low, and from the back of court, which doesn’t make much sense because topspin makes your hits more reliably land in play from a distance. He used a Wilson T2000 which was the first widely-distributed non-wooden racket, made of heavy stainless steel that most other tennis players refused to use, even when it was new in 1967. He continued to use it until 1987, missing out on of millions of dollars of racket sponsorship deals. He was distinguished for being widely unliked by tennis audiences and commentators. His Wikipedia article includes how he would put his racket in between his legs when he disagreed with a call and waddle around the court, then would “yank on the handle in a grotesque manner,” which the crowd hated.
Dec 11, 2023