I’ve used The Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine for years to find pages which had otherwise dropped off the web. What I didn’t notice until recently, is their extensive and highly useful collections of other media.
Why bother with such an archive? See their reasoning or take a look for yourself. For example, their video collection has:
- Old films and cartoons including the three stooges, popeye, and so on.
- Free recordings of MSRI Math lectures including a nice one about Fermat’s last theorem.
- Game videos including machinima and speed runs. (Definitions: Machinima, Speed Run)
They also have an archive of non-web texts and are working to archive old software so that copies will remain in existence when their copyright has expired.
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