Notices by Jason Scott (textfiles@mastodon.archive.org), page 2

The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.

https://archive.org

I stand with @internetarchive 🏛️

While waiting for Internet Archive to return, 51 terabytes of extracted data from 26,000 CD-ROMs are waiting for you to search and enjoy at DISCMASTER.

https://discmaster.textfiles.com/

Official reports and statements come from the @internetarchive account, not me.

I'll just say: I've been watching the organization work to clean up the mess left by others and the team at the place is really just top notch. A lot of folks have had their sleep schedules screwed up but are doing their best to make sure we return online and bring the memories of the Internet back again.

Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.

Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.

I like our side.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/09/leidse-proefschriften-worden-toch-niet-vernietigd-400000-dissertaties-gaan-naar-de-vs-a4868698

Now at the archive: FORMAT CHANGES - airchecks of radio stations signing off forever, switching formats, or starting their new lives as a new call-sign.

https://archive.org/details/airchecks-formatswitches

BREAKING NEWS: BLACK SUVS LEAVING INTERNET ARCHIVE AS SPECULATION ABOUT KAHLE AS VP PICK GROWS

@bastelwombat @Sweetshark @corbet been working on it for 10 years so yes

Internet Archive suffered a major power outage over the weekend and we are still recovering; if the site seems a little janky and slow, that's why.

The Internet Archive is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. In my opinion, this is the most crucial and important position we have had open at the company in some time. The right person in this position is not just helpful, but a make or break key between success and merely acceptable levels of technological advance for the archive. It's a non-profit level of pay but the work is world changing.

https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/91807-director-of-platform-engineering

It's Internet Archive Court day! Time to appeal in the book case. You can catch us just about 45 minutes at this address: https://ww2.ca2.uscourts.gov/court.html .. courtroom 1505! Woop woop

A few years ago, a kid mourning his dad handed me over 300 DVDs his dad had made of local bands in his London Suburb in the 2010s before passing on. He didn't know what do with them. I did. All of them are up at Internet Archive, hundreds of hours of cover bands playing in a bar, and now, thanks to a volunteer, Ducky, we have them all with dates and descriptions, where known. Enjoy.

https://archive.org/details/hamiltonpubperformances

A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.)

So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons

OK, the big experiment has begun. A ham radio group has funded the scanning of 4,000 manuals from the Great Manuals Plus Haul. Now, the experiment is - will people kick on a special link in the blog entry to help fund the other 20 PALLETS of manuals?

https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/24/a-happy-ending-for-some-manual-labor-and-a-call-for-support/

A pair of really sweet uploads in the last bit of time: Two Pacific Bell specialized home phone catalogs, encouraging you to break out of the standard telephones (that they offered) into a plastic insane world of pure 1980s kitsch.

https://archive.org/details/pnb-the-famous-phones-in-your-life
https://archive.org/details/pnb-famous-phones-for-pacific-northwest-interiors

Then there was the time the creator of Prince of Persia stopped by the Internet Archive to help Brewster Kahle get better at playing Prince of Persia:

https://blog.archive.org/2024/03/26/a-visit-from-and-conversation-with-jordan-mechner/

@Moon disproportionate responses are the best responses. I just made everybody in the office very happy, thanks to you

@Moon

Hey everybody. I'm at the internet archive headquarters all day. Tell me something you want to picture of and I'll do my best to supply. Where I can, I'll include a capsule description of what you're looking at as well.

The semantic search engine of over 25,000 CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive is back:

http://DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM is once again helping people discover long-lost computer history, forgotten images and music, and endless other buried treasures.

It was gone for half a year. Now it's here to stay. Enjoy.