Celebrate at the Internet Archive — 1024 — Thursday Oct. 24th

Internet Archive invites you to a fun evening in San Francisco on October 24th for our once-a-year celebration and announcements of new services. (And it just so happens to fall on 1024, which our fellow geeks will recognize as 2^10.)  We will drink and be merry with our friends, then gather together to tell you about the new steps we’re taking to guarantee permanent, free access to the world’s knowledge.  

No More 404s

October 24, 2013
Free Admission, Donations Welcome
6pm – 7pm : Cocktails and Reception
7pm – 8pm : Announcements
300 Funston Ave., San Francisco CA 94118
415-561-6767

Clapper

Please RSVP – we don’t want to run out of wine!

Some of the things we’ll share include:

  • No more broken links. Help wipe out dead links on the Internet with new tools and APIs to replace dead links with archived versions.  Down with 404s!
  • Reader PrivacyQuotable Television News.  A new interface for the TV News Research Service will facilitate journalists, bloggers and your news-addicted relatives to search, quote short clips and borrow from a massive, searchablearchive of U.S.television news programs.
  • Reader Privacy for All.  We are helping to protect the reading habits of our users from prying eyes by increasing encryption and keeping less user data.
  • Data tape with HamurabiBringing Old Software Back to Life.  First steps to bring the software for Apple II’s, Commodore 64’s etc back from cassette and to the web.
  • Petabytes, Gigabits, and More.  Come see for yourself!

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