An aquaintance mentioned wanting to read " Education and Learning in the Early Islamic World" by Claude Gilliot. But as always reading has a price - 85 £. And now our hero enters the stage. Archive.org. You can find the book there and even read it online, without downloading anything. The Internet archive is a great source for books, which are not the newest bestsellers.
https://archive.org/details/EducationAndLearningInEarlyIslamicWorld/page/n14/mode/1up
#education #resources #internetarchive #islam

Is it at all possible to search archive.org (the top-level search, not the wayback machine) without javascript nowadays? #archiveorg #internetarchive

(It's strange that I get notices about redirecting to other version, but then even that version does not work.)

I was watching an old #SNL on the #InternetArchive about the Rock announcing he was running for president with Tom Hanks as his Vice president from 2017.
https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-42-e-21-dwayne-johnson

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

Isn't the Internet Archive a wonderful Institution, not just for the online world, but far beyond.

#internetarchive #stopuselesscopyright

Hi, corporations should have no control whatsoever over library books

#internetarchive #libraries #books #copyright #bookstodon

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-lawsuit-libraries-books/

We need a "Leave Britney alone" for the Internet Archive site, https://archive.org/

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

If you can donate, please do. This is important work!

#InternetArchive

4am’s Crack of Spare Change
Spare Change is an odd little Apple II game from 1983, where the player tries to thwart mischievous creatures who escaped from an arcade game, who are trying to steal quarters from the machines. One of Broderbund's earlier hits, although it never gained the recognition of Lode Runner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5l5JOPZmWk
Such
https://setsideb.com/4ams-crack-of-spare-change/
#retro #4am #appleii #crack #internetarchive #retro #softwarepreservation

One of the things I'm most proud of finding is an #OhMyGoddess #AnimeV cassette tape featuring VERY rare archived recordings of the cast and creator talking about songs from the Tokuten-Ou album! I snatched it up the second I saw it, and looking into its history was a lot of fun!

More details in the description -- please check it out!

https://archive.org/details/oh-my-goddess-mystery-midnight-talk

#ああっ女神さまっ #AhMyGoddess #cassette #InternetArchive #archiving #anime #manga #RetroAnime #audio

Want to help Internet Archive's Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications? Are you in or around #Oakland, California? Are you available WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30?

In 2015 #InternetArchive acquired a *massive* collection of manuals, rescued from the closing Manuals Plus in Maryland. The manuals were packed up and sent to San Francisco, awaiting for a day some or all of it would be digitized. That day has come.

We need help sorting the manuals, looking for the radio-related stuff.

It just occurred to me that the #InternetArchive is basically the only thing holding back the persistent bit rot that’s destroying the history of the net… so naturally enormous corporations are attempting to destroy them.

Also, one goal of the push towards ubiquitous cloud computing and the War Against General Computing is to watch every single thing we do, and destroy our ability to copy and spread whatever we feel like, instead of what the corporations decide we are “permitted” to partake in.

#InternetArchive sued by #recordlabels as battle with book publishers intensifies
#Music #copyright bomb hits just as other court conflict leads to lending limits
Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ Copyright #Lawsuit alleging IA violated respective music companies' copyrights by digitizing and distributing online audio files transferred from old #78RPM recordings.
https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/

Until #Australia grows an internet backbone and has an #InternetArchive of our own, please donate to the #archiveDotOrg, if you can.

There is a wonderful 1947 documentary film on "Making Books" on Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/MakingBo1947

If the link doesn't work on mobile, try this direct link to video file:

https://archive.org/download/MakingBo1947/MakingBo1947_512kb.mp4

#histodons #books #primarysources #internetarchive

Posted a scan of the June, 1941 issue of Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs to Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-1941.6

Articles include an exploration of castle building in Japan and the history of Japanese war literature. However, it also includes one of several pieces in the journal by the interesting international legal scholar Thomas Baty. 1/

#primarysources #japan #internetarchive #histodons

The #NewYorkTimes has blocked #OpenAI’s #webcrawler, meaning that OpenAI can’t use content from the publication to train its AI models. If you check the NYT’s robots.txt page, you can see that the NYT disallows #GPTBot, the crawler that OpenAI introduced earlier this month. Based on the #InternetArchive’s #WaybackMachine, it appears NYT blocked the crawler as early as August 17th. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/21/23840705/new-york-times-openai-web-crawler-ai-gpt #copyright #legalresearch

In WWII, the US War Department's collection of language phrase books proliferated signficantly. I found a copy of the 1944 Korean phrase book that must have come in handy when US forces showed up on the peninsula in September, 1945. US forces were infamously ill equipped to engage with Korean locals, depending a lot on Japanese interpreters and Japanese speaking Koreans. Posted to IA:

TM 30-642 Korean Phrase Book https://archive.org/details/tm-30-642-korean-phrase-book

#primarysources #korea #histodons #internetarchive

@samwilson Is it really wise to contribute to further consolidation into #OverDrive, which is leveraged to attack the #InternetArchive? https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/09/controlled-digital-lending-and-open-libraries-helping-libraries-and-readers-in-times-of-crisis/

#InternetArchive Responds to #RecordingIndustry #Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media
Some of the world's largest record labels, including #Sony and #UniversalMusicGroup (#UMG), filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive and others for the #Great78Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of #78 pm records that are 70 to 120 years old.
https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

Algunas mafias están perfectamente integradas en la sociedad. @internetarchive las está sufriendo con connivencia institucional.
#internetarchive
https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/110879983411465250

Kommentar: Klage gegen #InternetArchive – (geistiges) Eigentum bekommt Recht | heise online https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Klage-gegen-Internet-Archive-geistiges-Eigentum-bekommt-Recht-9244511.html #copyright #Urheberrecht