(Full Video of event. Announcement as posts: 1, 2, and 3)
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.
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
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!
Quotable 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.
Bringing 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!
I greatly value your work. Richard of St Victor is beyond price. Boethius most helpful.
So, when I come across a messed up page, such as the txt version of the Bible KJV, I wish there was a quick way for me to nip in to tidy up or repair.
Anyway, thanks chaps; especially for the twelfth century works.
All the best for the Jamboree, Hugh Pawsey
No one likes a 404, indeed! I would like to mention that the Memento extension for Chrome also allows replacing dead links with archived versions available from several web archives, including the Internet Archive. This is achieved by right-clicking a dead link or a 404 page. The extension is available at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/memento/jgbfpjledahoajcppakbgilmojkaghgm?hl=en&gl=US.
All the best with the celebration! I wish I could be there.
Herbert Van de Sompel, LANL
Yes, we love memento!
Looks like a wonderful event. Will do my best to come, and there is a LOT to celebrate this year (as all!)
CONGRATS!
It is first time that I’m celebrating this with Internet Archive. So it is going to be more interesting for me. Wish you.
Thanks.
will do my best to come, and there is a lotto celebrate this year!
CONGRATS!
I’m sorry that I can’t make your event. I’m here in Chicago..but you can bet….. I’ll promote it on my radio show. I hope to make it out your way sometime in Feb 2014
Best of luck to you all,
Denny Farrell
Wow really very amazing post . i like it..
I love Archive! Intelligent people doing wonderful, important projects!
Dear Organizers and archive.org team and members I m happy to hear this and I hopefully sending my regards for our grand success. This is really seems to me a political rally in this globalized world of copyrighted scenario.
Thanks for the service.
KaruMukilan
Wonderful progress! Sorry I cannot make it as I arrive on the 25th! Wish I had known earlier!
The ability to use old software to read old documents is really valuable; we also need the equipment from the various (mostly defunct now) manufacturer to read all the media we used before the Internet.
Keep up the great work!
Would come, but I will be busy decking the halls and repairing homemade christmas decorations.
I need to tell you I have used this archive website a lot. It helps me to keep up with what my competitors (to http://www.easyflatpax.com) have been up to! Keep up the great work. I wish I could be there in San Francisco. Have fun!
We have been accused of changing things on our http://madaboutikea.com website. The archive has helped us prove to our accusers, they are wrong. Thanks for such a cool site.
All the best with the gig!
Loria
I’m hoping your new software initiative will help me preserve the educational games and learning software from the 1960s through the 1990s. It will be an integral part of the History of Computing in Learning and Education Virtual Museum (hcle.org). See you Thursday night!
What a great year from what I hear. Much to celebrate!
Best wishes from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia…
Someday I hope that 1980s Voyager Expanded Books with cross-platform open-source players will be as available on the Archive as 1940s radio show MP3s are today.
But for now, I’ll keep building a blog/book with old radio shows.
🙂
http://jheroes.com “Newspaper Heroes on the Air”
IA is one of the pearls of the net. Aw hell, of civilization. And a continuing source of inspiration in our interesting times. And I’ll keep saying it no matter how much you say “Aw shucks” and rub your toe in a circle.
Wish I could join you, and I hope all of you heroes will be very merry indeed.
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Did anyone record the event? I’d love to learn more about the “No more broken links” announcement.
Yes it was recorded. Looks like the video will be uploaded soon.
Thanks. Found lots of good info in https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/
What a wonderful event. Here’s to many, many more years of the the Library of Alexandria 2.0!
The video is at https://archive.org/details/internetarchivecelebration20131024 – thanks for the link Tyler
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