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Yes.

I only added the calculators that have the artwork setting. Otherwise you look at a single line or LCD. The blog post discusses this.

Modifications done to make it run in the browser make it historically / archivally problemstic, so it's restricting downloads. There is nothing related to these calculators not available in other locations on or offf the archive.

We had signups for a couple days for some of our employees to have an easier time hopping on, but yeah, switched to invite-only.

Hi everyone. Glad word of this is getting around.

It's only open for official Internet Archive role accounts and employees. We don't really have the time or resources to have a fully-running open-registration community from the server. But you can definitely visit it if you're on Mastodon to find official accounts and employees to connect with.

Turn on contents search and try strings that might be in it.

The blink element has been consistently criticised by usability and accessibility experts. In 1996 Jakob Nielsen described the element as "simply evil" in his Alertbox column Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design.[14] The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 state that content authors should avoid causing the screen to flicker or blink, noting that such effects can cause problems for people with cognitive disabilities or photosensitive epilepsy.[15]

Every day is a joy.

On a given day I'm moving tens of thousands of items around to make them easier to find. I'm sure I'll get to your section sooner or later.

I can understand why.

I like the Fido one best.

The documentary is more about the general experience of BBSes than drilling down to specific ones. Yours may not be mentioned by name but I hope that you recognize it in some of what people say anyway.

Sometimes people mention that it is missing something and I often find that what they mean is some sort of specific geographical scene or a very specific BBS. Less than a dozen BBSes are mentioned by name because I was trying to do justice to the over 100,000 that lived.

If this was censorship, it was the weirdest censorship ever.

The Book Images collection on Flickr has now returned.

All the images are returning.

https://twitter.com/DonMacAskill/status/1511033739706478594

I've been having fun with this post all day, but now I kind of need to know: Can you give examples of noise on the Archive?

Thank you, drive through

Weird this 2020 article hit the front page for a while, so obligatory link to the donation page:

https://archive.org/donate

Obligatory link to the "Computers on Tape" collection:

https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers

"Big Fan" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Update: We're talkiing

Hi, Jason Scott at Internet Archive. Let's talk. Jason@textfiles.com

oh no he's onto us boys

This story has made the top of Hackernews before, but it's always appreciated when people find it.

For context about the Great 78 project:

http://great78.archive.org/

For the even larger set of 78rpm recording being done:

https://archive.org/details/78rpm

We are very aware of each other.

We need a library of flash support that can be integrated into players and browsers easily.

Yeah, I'm gonna call that nitpicking. Also wrong. But it all depends when it was in your view.

Known issue and yes, because of that reason.

I like how you answered the question of why they're not up yet. But yes, I'd like chan-like flashes to be able to live on in some way.

I wouldn't say Lightspark has failed at all, they're progressing nicely. Others are too.

I heard a rumor Shumway was abandoned as a project by Mozilla because ex-Adobe engineers were steering the project and Adobe issued concerns; they probably could have been worked out, but you know, Mozilla. Since then, Flash has been end of life'd more aggressively, so I think Shumway could return.

Flash files should be like music or graphic files - playable in a variety of players and items. Even VLC someday, we could hope.