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US digital archives job: Nintendo of America have a posting for a 12-month digital archivist position. https://careers.nintendo.com/jobs/4458631009/
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pretty rare to be able to post good news about EA. even rarer to post an EA software preservation story. the last time was EA mythic getting archived by the wcnews.com team - 15 years ago.
this time it's EA itself doing an incredible job doing the digitizing, and this little team deserves huge credit for doing the heavy lifting
this is crazy good high quality archival work from betacam sp and more obscure tape formats. the best part? they retrofitted the hq footage back into the original games. Wing Commander 1, 2, 3, 4, Prophecy, and Privateer 2 all got a major hd refresh.
https://www.ea.com/news/from-the-vault-to-your-library
well done 🙏
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I talk to people about web archiving a lot, and it feels like so many people think it’s not something *they* can do - they just have to wait and hope someone else saves a site for them. But *you* can save web history too! Here’s how! https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/
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#GAVA started with a round-the-globe roundtable update on collaboration between academia and archives. Just like #DigiPres, the gap between haves and don't-haves is quite huge. The questions raised by the panelists were also similar - how can the don't-haves stop being just a case study? The underfunded approach [pragmatic?] should be looked at closely. The centre has shifted.
#digipres I'm looking for someone to take a collection of around 150-200 (maybe more) VHS tapes with TV recordings that I have in storage. I'm cleaning out my house and need to see if anyone would be interested in taking them.
The tapes are located in Mexicali, Mexico, so it'd have to be someone from the surrounding area.
People have suggested I donate these to the Internet Archive, but I am unable to ship them out. I asked this a few years ago. It is NOT urgent, we got a couple of months.
I'm disproportionately excited about having stickers (and badges) to give away at iPRES. My love of a laptop sticker is real. #ipres2026 #digipres
The stuff I've been working on recently is finally public! I've spent the past bit revamping the social media site support in Browsertrix. We can capture much more content from Facebook and Instagram now, and I've also fixed Youtube video capture.
In addition, we've added a new "smart scoping" feature that ensures we crawl more pages from social media profiles even if they wouldn't otherwise be in scope.
https://webrecorder.net/blog/2026-07-27-social-media-improvements/
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Please send me more #Sony #Mavica #floppy disks that came with various models..
There are a bunch of them missing on the internet archive and I haven't seen any on my copy of bitsavers either.
https://archive.org/details/sony_digital_mavica_floppy_mvc_df5
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Is there a chance that somebody at #Wikimania knows something about the recent loss of years of ahort links to #Wikidata queries on https://query-chest.toolforge.org/ The seeming flushing of all caches at some point earlier this month makes the service utterly useless and caused thousands of links in publications, on websites etc. to rot.
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surprisingly, it appears that no one has imaged the clip-art CD-ROM that came with the book. that work has now been done :)
enjoy some low-effort photographic clip-art courtesy of DK in ISO format:
https://archive.org/details/ew-ocean-clipart
#cdrom #digiPres
really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.
it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.
as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:
https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal
originally from robyn's site:
http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films
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software mystery: does anyone have an archived copy of Case Western University's "FreePort" Free-Net software?
this is the collection of server daemons and scripts that, collected together, formed the backbone of most FreeNets. despite the tools being free, the collected package and scripts were not free, and were sold and licensed to freenet operators.
(chebucto appeared a few years later as a free replacement (and it is still available for download) - but it's not the same software package as FreePort.)
boosts very welcome.
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