Three cheers for the Internet Archive! Among its millions or trillions of things saved, there is the SolderSmoke podcast and blog.
Check out the CNN video:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/business/video/internet-archive-wayback-machine-church-digvid
Careful the current fascist regime might want to invade it to erase or alter history.
ReplyDeleteIn the video, they say they have copies of the archive stored in several overseas locations. That is reassuring.
ReplyDeleteUntil they put the US behing a great firewall like China or Russia....
ReplyDeleteHurrah!
ReplyDeleteI recently attended a similar celebration by Internet Archive at their Physical Archive in Richmond, CA, just across the bay. Fantastic organization. Fantastic mission. I have used their services for years: the wayback machine, yes, but also I've read dozens of radio and electronics books, as well as books on many other topics. The recent lawsuit loss has reduced the number of books I can access, but not to zero!
I came away from the celebration in Richmond reminded that the Internet Archive is worthy of my support. They need financial support to keep doing what they do, but they are a scrappy organization. They carry out their noble mission with one eye on posterity and the other on cheap, energy-efficient, homebrew ways of accomplishing challenging things, like keeping the physical books they've digitized dehumidified. (You'd be surprised how much money and energy the standard commercial offerings take.)
Matt, KO6BKV
The kids and I take a bus by there pretty often for classes up in the Presidio. It's a pretty building! (Also--no small amount of pride here--KO6BTY saved the bus route that goes by there, the 43--it was shortened during the pandemic--by calling into transit meetings week after week :)
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