Author Archives: Jason Scott

HyperCard On The Archive (Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard)

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Jason Scott

On August 11, 1987, Bill Atkinson announced a new product from Apple for the Macintosh; a multimedia, easily programmed system called HyperCard. HyperCard brought into one sharp package the ability for a Macintosh to do interactive documents with calculation, sound, … Continue reading →

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Macintosh Collection Hand-Screenshotted… Plus: HyperCard!

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive’s emulated Early Mac collection, which was announced last week, has had all its content screenshotted by hand for maximum visual beauty and accuracy. Normally, we utilize a set of automated scripts that do screenshotting, allowing for a … Continue reading →

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Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Jason Scott

After offering in-browser emulation of console games, arcade machines, and a range of other home computers, the Internet Archive can now emulate the early models of the Apple Macintosh, the black-and-white, mouse driven computer that radically shifted the future of … Continue reading →

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The Internet Arcade becomes an Archive Reality

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Jason Scott

A couple years back, we introduced the Internet Arcade, which enabled people around the world to play a number of Arcade titles from the last 40 years in their browsers, instantly. We’ve also had collections of console games, and a … Continue reading →

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I CAN HAZ MEME HISTORY??

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott presents Internet Memes of the last 20 Years at the Internet Archive’s 20th anniversary celebration. ——– It’s always going to be an open question as to what parts of culture will survive beyond each generation, but there’s very … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Preserving Digital Music – Why Netlabel Archive Matters

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Jason Scott

The following entry is by Simon Carless, who worked for the Internet Archive in the early 2000’s before moving on to work in media and conferences, while simultaneously maintaining collections at the Internet Archive and running the for-free game information … Continue reading →

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The Hidden Shifting Lens of Browsers

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Jason Scott

Some time ago, I wrote about the interesting situation we had with emulation and Version 51 of the Chrome browser – that is, our emulations stopped working in a very strange way and many people came to the Archive’s inboxes … Continue reading →

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Microphone Check: Thousands of Hip-Hop Mixtapes at the Archive

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive has been growing an interesting sub-collection of music for the past few months: Hip-Hop Mixtapes. The resulting collection still has a way to go before it’s anywhere near what is out there (limited by bandwidth and a few other … Continue reading →

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Those Hilarious Times When Emulations Stop Working

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, Software Curator and Your Emulation Buddy, writing in. With tens of thousands of items in the archive.org stacks that are in some way running in-browser emulations, we’ve got a pretty strong library of computing history afoot, with many more joining … Continue reading →

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Truck and Back Again: The Internet Archive Truck Takes a Detour

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Jason Scott

When one of our employees came out of his home over the weekend, he saw an empty parking space. Granted, in San Francisco, that’s a pretty precious thing, but since this empty parking space had held the Internet Archive Truck … Continue reading →

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