WHAT: Based at the Presido in San Francisco, the Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that maintains an online library of web and multimedia resources. What kind of resources? Using their "Wayback Machine," you can check out the snapshots they've taken of websites in the past, as well as browse and download archived copies of software, movies, books, and audio files. It's a digital library of information, in one place.
WHY: On the purely entertainment side, it's an odd pleasure to gaze back on early websites such as Yahoo from 1996, Google from 1998, or Apple's early web days. But more than a novelty or a "space in time," documentarians, researchers, and artists can find public domain media to include in their own original projects - news reel footage of World War II, those odd 1950's-era gender stereotype films they showed in school rooms on 16mm projectors, and rare bits of music that won't be found anywhere else. These just happen to be great resources for the low-budget filmmaker.
The Internet Archive has been recognized by the State of California as an official library. According to Wikipedia, it's the only library in the world with a mirror - an identical backup version - and that's located in Egypt. If you're so inclined, you can even find games such as Final Fantasy II or "Knights of the Republic" for download...
Internet Archives: http://www.archive.org
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
ENTERTAINMENT & REFERENCE: The Internet Archive
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