[Okfn-ca] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] New Online Television News Database from the Internet Archive

Fri Oct 25 16:21:29 UTC 2013

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Sujet: 	[okfn-discuss] New Online Television News Database from the 
Internet Archive
Date : 	Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:01:31 -0700
De : 	Marc Joffe <marc at publicsectorcredit.org>
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Last night, during its annual celebration, the San Francisco-based 
Internet Archive (http://archive.org) announced an exciting new open 
database.  They have placed online a large number of news broadcasts 
from the last several years. Because they have captions of the content, 
it is key word searchable.  Users will be able to locate news clips, 
associate them with unique URLs and thereby embed the clips in email 
messages and blog posts.  See https://archive.org/details/tv for more.

They also announced a less momentous, but really fun new initiative -- 
especially for us older people. The Archive has placed a bunch of old 
video games and software applications from the 1970s and 1980s on line.  
Using a technology called MESS (*Multi Emulator Super System 
<http://www.mess.org/>*) they have been able to get these historical 
apps to work within a web browser.  I did not have good results in 
Safari but was able to get Visicalc, the original electronic 
spreadsheet, running in Chrome and Firefox -- albeit with many 
limitations.  See 
https://archive.org/stream/VisiCalc_1979_SoftwareArts/Visicalc1.37-1979.dsk?module=apple2c&scale=2.

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