[okfn-discuss] New Online Television News Database from the Internet Archive

[Marc Joffe]

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 ( <http://www.mess.org/> Multi Emulator Super System)
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
<https://archive.org/stream/VisiCalc_1979_SoftwareArts/Visicalc1.37-1979.dsk
?module=apple2c&scale=2> &scale=2.

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