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71 votes
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Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results
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The Internet Archive lost their latest appeal. Here’s what that means for you.
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Internet Archive loses appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive
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PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data and accounts
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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
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A university librarian asks: How do we rescue the past?
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Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
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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
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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
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The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser
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The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
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Internet Archive ends its "National Emergency Library" unlimited digital book-lending program in response to lawsuit filed by publishers
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Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun
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Delete never: The digital hoarders who collect Tumblrs, medieval manuscripts, and terabytes of text files
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The Internet Archive fixes nine million broken links on Wikipedia
16 votes