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37 votes
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The Internet Archive lost their latest appeal. Here’s what that means for you.
27 votes -
Internet Archive loses appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive
69 votes -
ROMhacking.net moves to news only, database and file archive released to Internet Archive
34 votes -
PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data and accounts
34 votes -
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
59 votes -
A university librarian asks: How do we rescue the past?
14 votes -
Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
41 votes -
Word processing like it's 1993
I thought younger people may find it interesting to experience what older, very popular, word processors were like. Here's WordPerfect 6.0, emulated in the browser:...
I thought younger people may find it interesting to experience what older, very popular, word processors were like.
Here's WordPerfect 6.0, emulated in the browser: https://archive.org/details/msdos_wordperfect6
Here's a link to the instruction manual: https://archive.org/details/wordperfectversi00word/mode/2up
Here's a bit of history: DOSDays - WordPerfect $495 in 1983 is roughly $1500 today.
Here's the recommended specs (not the minimum specs)
Personal computer using 386 processor
520k free conventional memory
DOS 6.0 or memory management software
Hard disk with 16M disk space for complete installation
VGA graphics adapter and monitorF1 is the default help key.
Page 409 of the manual talks about menus. This is version 6 so they give you a drop down menu. To get an idea of how version 5 and earlier would appear by default (without the menubar, just the blue screen), hit alt v, then p. T (To get the menu back hit alt =, then V, then P) People might find it weird but those drop down menus first appeared in 5.1, and were a bit deal: "On 6th November 1989 WordPerfect released what would be their most successful version - WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, selling for $495 in the U.S. This was the first version to support Macintosh-style text-based pull down menus to supplement the traditional function key shortcuts and mouse support."
I'd be interested to know how easy people find it to use. At the time I had the keyboard overlay (example for WP5) and the muscle memory, but that's all gone now.
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archive.org went down today
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Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications has grown to more than 90,000 resources related to amateur radio, shortwave listening, amateur television, and related topics
29 votes -
Notado 07/2023 Update: API Price Gouging, New Services, Archiving
11 votes -
The Digital Transportation Archive
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DLARC Radio Library surpasses 75,000 items of ham radio, shortwave history
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Judge decides against Internet Archive
20 votes -
The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser
12 votes -
The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
20 votes -
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book
26 votes -
Hundreds of unreleased prototype games are playable for free on the Internet Archive
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Internet Archive ends its "National Emergency Library" unlimited digital book-lending program in response to lawsuit filed by publishers
14 votes -
Four major US publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement, alleging that it has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public
30 votes -
Tracking down all of Isaac Asimov's books
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Why authors are so angry about the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library
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Internet Archive has created a National Emergency Library, allowing users access to all 1.4 million books in their collection with no waiting lists
25 votes -
VHSVault - A large VHSRip archive has been posted to the Internet Archive
9 votes -
The Internet Archive is digitising & preserving over 100,000 vinyl records: Hear 750 full albums now.
8 votes -
Better World Books and the Internet Archive unite to preserve millions of books
8 votes -
2,500 more MS-DOS games playable at the Internet Archive
13 votes -
Digital Amnesia (2014)
4 votes -
The remarkable story of a woman who preserved over thirty years of TV history
11 votes -
Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun
16 votes -
Delete never: The digital hoarders who collect Tumblrs, medieval manuscripts, and terabytes of text files
35 votes -
Internet Archive
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The Internet Archive fixes nine million broken links on Wikipedia
16 votes