Jason Scott @textfiles
Proprietor of https://t.co/sdyjXHCZF7, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur. Pitiful Man. textfiles.com The 1980s Joined March 2007-
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@SeanCrutchfiel6 @faintghostglow @timelinetripper Edge of vision on right side, left side aimed towards door
@SeanCrutchfiel6 @faintghostglow @timelinetripper Well, let me know if a co-worker is a loon so I can adjust my office chair appropriately
@faintghostglow @SeanCrutchfiel6 @timelinetripper Am I the loon?
@DarrenWStaley @Foone I have a bag of dongles. Image and scan everything!
@Y2K_mindset @JPlatzHalter @_SatanWatch All have other collaborators but some of the big ones were World Trade Center, most of the Hackers ones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fecal Transplant, others I'd have to track down. The one I'm most proud of is The Case of the Hanover High Shocker.
@ID_AA_Carmack Always appreciated when something I care about gets your heat lamp, John.
Finally, rent money
The “Video Home System” (VHS), a new home video recording format, is introduced at a press conference at Hotel Okura in Tokyo with the unveiling of the HR-3300 “Vidstar.”
@ghostinthecable Looking good - you should add a .jpg for the item so it looks nicer.
@gilbertsinnott @internetarchive What is "SIS", I have a betting pool going.
As I discover people's alternative ways of communication elsewhere, I'll be unfollowing here. Don't take it badly - it's just optimizing for Not Here.
So, The Internet Archive had someone upload a few hundred hours of MTV recordings. VJs, Commercials, and of course Music Videos, from the 1980s. Today, it was asked to be taken down by someone who could ask for that and it's down.
@bmccall17 @flexasaurusrex I know it lives for now
Livestreaming at twitch.tv/textfiles - I don't post much on twitter anymore, so that's a good reason to subscribe to the twitch stream (or follow me on Bluesky)
@alreadybaned There are more repositories within the archive and obviously I'm not counting the Wayback machine. But still, yeah, 5 petabytes is no joke.
I'll take a shot at this. The Internet Archive is maintaining an archive of roughly 5 petabytes of what are called "Social Media Video" - twitch streams, capcut templates, tiktok, coub, youtube, and more. And that number is growing by the thousands every week.
@internetarchive Five days of seeking a response from the @internetarchive or @brewster_kahle. I'm sure there were multiple points in time when people didn't care - treated with silence, or couldn't conceive of the importance of these works. This is why we have so much lost film, lost media.
But in the aggregate, the Archive has been archiving live music, video, and other works by creators for over 25 years, and is doing so constantly, and the statement of the fact they're doing this was (is) the place itself.
Some people have attempted to mirror/archive specific accounts and specific groups, to keep a more robust and deep set for those groups/accounts. The groups/accounts sometimes decline that favor, and ask material to not be available.
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