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Comment by Jakob | Hacker News Reader

+1 for his tip of "Search The Internet Archive".

The other day I searched for the Tom & Jerry full episodes on the web to no avail (streaming platforms and video platforms like youtube only have rubbish cuts).

The internet archive has every episode starting from the first one in 1940, in an easily accessible player without any ads or recommendations: https://archive.org/details/tom-and-jerry-all-114-episodes

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TIL: IA is more than Wayback Machine.

Something I'd love to learn to do better is search WBM. I use WBM only a couple of times per month, but when I need it it's the only tool that can do the job and is therefore very valuable. Trouble is, I don't really know how to search it unless I have a record of the exact URL I want, which isn't always possible.

Your comment just reminded me of how great the Internet Archive is, so I guess it's time to donate another 100 bucks to IA again.

it’s within the realm of a few apple stores to serve the internet archive?

Just as a quick link for others, it's possible to set up a single or monthly donation to the internet archive at this link: https://archive.org/donate/

I give from time to time to Wikipedia, when I get an appeal from Jimmy Wales. Even more important than IA to me, which is saying A LOT.

Internet Archive is generally invaluable for finding older media. I personally use it to find movies from the 40’s and earlier. There’s always a dozen different uploads of the movie regardless of whether it’s still under copyright protection. I guess the rights owners don’t care that much, but it could potentially be ammo to take the whole Archive down.

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