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Jan 19

BIG NEWS: On 1/1 for the first time in history, every sound recording published since the invention of records thru 1922 entered the US #publicdomain.
Including this: Fanny Brice's "Second Hand Rose."
🎉TMW: Come to our virtual "Celebration of Sound" 1/20: eventbrite.com/e/celebration-…

2/ What will you find now in the public domain? Experts say some 400,000 recordings like this one: Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.
You can find 38,500 newly #publicdomain 78s in our collection-- now yours free to reuse & download. archive.org/details/george…

3/ And it's not just big hits! Check out some of the quirkier #publicdomain treasures in our collections, from "Fido is a Hot Dog Now" to myriad books & films.
blog.archive.org/2022/01/01/wel…

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Internet Archive

@internetarchive

Dec 21, 2021

@ID_AA_Carmack

Did you know @ID_AA_Carmack that back in 2018, @InternetArchive started experimenting with @IPFS @WebTorrentApp & gun.eco?

You can see our prototype decentralized Archive here:
dweb.archive.org/details/home

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1473327982605385735

@ID_AA_Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack @IPFS @WebTorrentApp 2/ But back in 2018, the decentralized tech was still in its earliest days. In 2021, @InternetArchive is actively working with @IPFS @Filecoin & @Storj to preserve humanity's treasures in decentralized storage.

blog.archive.org/2021/10/19/dwe…

@ID_AA_Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack @IPFS @WebTorrentApp @Filecoin @storj 3/ Few know it, but we've been a major convener of the DWeb. Follow our community at @GETDWeb & getdweb.net

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Internet Archive

@internetarchive

Oct 28, 2021

@GIFmodel

1/4 🎉To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, we commissioned @GIFmodel to create a new work contemplating 2046 & the future of the Internet.
😻Behold "Perpetual Calendar" 📆--allowing you to flip thru past & future with @GIFModel's rich vernacular graphics.
haveagood.today

@GIFModel

2/ Internet Artist, Olia Lialina (@GIFModel) looks to the early web tradition of wishing your friends a good/happy/sexy day, often with glittering graphics.
blog.archive.org/2021/10/20/oli…
#IA2046

@GIFModel

3/ At @GIFModel's website, you can enter a date in the past or future and experience the vernacular web graphic associated with that day. Just enter a new date at the top of the screen:
haveagood.today
@IA2046

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Internet Archive

@internetarchive

Oct 25, 2021

@TheRickWilson

LIVE w/ @TheRickWilson: "The @internetarchive is tremendously important. It's got some independence to it. It has a longer time horizon. Authoritarians HATE people with long memories..."
@IA2046 #IA2046

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1452656365734809602

@TheRickWilson

2/ @TheRickWilson: "There are not a lot of market incentives to record our history. The $ to eyeball ratio is too low. Cultures lose when they don't have access to their own history." #IA2046

@TheRickWilson

3/ @TheRickWilson: "The @internetarchive is providing a place for amateurs to preserve something that's important to them. It might be niche, but eventually someone may want to see it." #IA2046

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Internet Archive

@internetarchive

Apr 25, 2021

@georgeblood_lp

At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize #78 rpm records.
Our partner @georgeblood_lp has perfected this technique, digitizing with 4 different styli at once.

We put as much effort into capturing the #metadata as we do digitizing the music.

@great78project

2/ There's a half-century of 78 rpm recordings (1898-1950s) at risk of being lost, never heard again in the digital era.
Our goal is to save them all. 🎶
You can listen to 255,000 of these 78 rpm recordings in the George Blood Collection: archive.org/details/george…
@great78project

@great78project

3/ Another benefit of digitization? Discovering little-known corners of #music history.

After scanning 250,000 sides, we've found 80% of these #78s were produced by the "Big Five" labels.
@great78project
great78.archive.org

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Internet Archive

@internetarchive

Apr 23, 2021

@ayakkisi

Is there hope for the #Internet?
Artists Thomas Georg Blank & Işık Kaya @ayakkisi came to the @internetarchive to explore that theme.
🎞️Their #NewWork debuts today: a clip from Chapter 1 "song of the petabox" 👇

"And the data is so happy there you can actually hear it sing..."

@ayakkisi

2/ Thomas Georg Blank & @ayakkisi's new work is titled "When looking at stones I get sucked into deep time, when looking at my hard drive I'm afraid that it will break"

Read about their creative process & message:
blog.archive.org/2021/04/23/a-n…

#ArtistOnTwitter #artwork

3/ Blank & Kaya bring together text, video & audio fragments to show that, "in the right hands, the Internet does not have to become an instrument of surveillance and control, but, on the contrary, can be graceful and divine."
A clip from Chpt 2: "Time travelers made of stone"