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November 3, 2014 Rhett Jones

The Internet Archive continues to be one of the coolest destinations on the web. On Monday, the site pulled out 900 games for you to play for free in your web browser. And it’s not just a bunch of rinky-dink garbage either — there are tons of classics and overlooked gems in there. While it’s […]

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September 10, 2013 Kyle Chayka

This summer, the entire fifth floor of the New Museum was transformed into a devoted archival lab. This functioning exhibition and lab “XFR STN” allowed for any New York-based artist to set up an appointment and work together with one of the museum’s digital media archivists to carefully extract artworks from their recently antiquated storage devices. […]

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April 15, 2013 Kyle Chayka

The Internet Archive, a massive online library with the goal of offering the public “permanent access” to historical digital media, has proven to be a great resource for artists and anyone else looking for obscure collections of video, music, and text. Everything from outdated car commercials to the Consumer Electronics Showcase of 1996 is available in the […]

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April 10, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

San Francisco’s non-profit digital library The Internet Archive has announced an open call for internet innovators/curators to hold week-long “Tumblr residencies” on their site. 52 selected winners will have the opportunity to showcase their skills by creating custom tumblr themes for a URL (provided by the IA crew) and then posting a week’s worth of […]

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