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Computers

The Internet Archive's trove of historical software dwarfs all others, archivist claims

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The past doesn’t always fade into oblivion.

For the past two years, computer archivist Jason Scott has been hard at work helping to improve the Internet Archive’s storehouse of historical software from classic PC games to old BBS content. On Saturday, Scott made a bold announcement, claiming the Internet Archive now houses the largest historical software collection in the world.

“My provided goal was do for software what archive.org has been doing for [books, music, visual items, and Websites],” Scott said on his personal blog. “In short summary, I have done that.” Scott didn’t disclose the software collection’s exact size, only that it is comprised of terabytes of data.

If you’re a computer history buff, the Internet Archive’s software collection includes a variety of old programs, games, and utilities you can download. The archive is split into several sections, including the Shareware CD archive, PC games, mirrors of old FTP sites, programs pulled from old disk drives, and The Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) for firmware and programs of classic computers and game consoles.

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From: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034656/the-internet-archives-trove-of-historical-software-dwarfs-all-others-archivist-claims.html#tk.rss_all

Linux

Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 102

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This week’s episode relays bits from USDA Radio about supercomputers as well as the sixth season announcement from the Ubuntu UK Podcast team where they announce they’re shifting to weekly releases. News more local to the Ohio Local Community Team is also presented as members are implored to update the February 2013 Team Report and to log Ubuntu Global Jam events on the LoCo portal.

Unlike normal episodes, producer Gloria Kellat presented this week while head writer Stephen Michael Kellat stood temporary duty as recording engineer.

Download here (MP3) (ogg) (FLAC), or subscribe to the podcast (MP3) to have episodes delivered to your media player. We suggest subscribing by way of a service like gpodder.net. Please note that due to upload size limitations some audio formats for episodes are now being hosted at Internet Archive instead of directly on the team’s server.

Burning Circle Episode 102 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/02/20/s06e00-season-6-is-coming/.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

News, Politics, Government

Virginia • Summit Archives – Communities of the Northern Piedmont

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By Gary Triplett Summit Archives – Communities of the Northern Piedmont

The WayBack Machine at archive.org archived “www.summit.net” starting in 1999. The first pages of Summit (then: Summit Web Communications Internet Services) were not archived since Summit’s content began in 1995, four years before The Wayback Machine grew to archive the information.

Although outdated, some information found here is still relevant. At any rate, it’s interesting to see the past and compare the many changes around the world over time.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

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Statistics: Posted by Gary Triplett — Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:22 pm

Source: FULL ARTICLE at gov.summit.net