About

The Internet Archive (archive.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive has an historical web collection (the Wayback Machine) of over 80 billion web pages, about 42,000 movies, over 100,000 audio items (including almost 40,000 live concerts), 100,000 texts, 1600 education items, and over 30,000 software items. And we’re growing bigger every day!

The Internet Archive’s Collections Team started this blog to highlight new collections and interesting items from the Movies, Audio, and Education collections. We hope you enjoy it!

7 Responses to “About”

  1. Berry Kessinger Says:

    I have recorded & restored thousands of 78s from the 1920s & early 1930a, mostly the mainstream jazz of that era. Most are from 78 collections I have bought & sold, and others are from files shared with me by others. Ihave spent thousands of hours on this over the past 5 years. I have more than 4,000 songs on more than 150 CDs, and an alphabetized catelog (by artist). I would be happy to share them with you, if you are interested. Please advise.

  2. Walden Says:

    Please provide a full-content RSS/Atom feed, so I and others can read the whole post in a feed reader of our own choice.

    The same goes for the main feeds (which are also missing timestamps!):
    http://www.archive.org/iathreads/posts-display-new.php?forum=announcements&mode=rss

    Thanks for all your Free Culture work!

  3. Debralee Fader Says:

    Thank you for the archive regarding my website. For a brief moment, I was able to view the website. It made my day! After moving, I lost the original copy of the website, and have been unable to reconnect with the site webmaster. Is there any way to restore the site? Could not view videos. How can I learn more about the work yhat you are doing? What a much needed service!

    Debra Lee Kristian- Fader

  4. Steve Brooks Says:

    Thanks to all the contributors and enthusiasts to this invaluable web-site. Keep up the good work.

    For 2 years I’ve been searching for the Hoffman Soda radio commercial [jingle] from the 1960’s -”the prettiest girl I ever saw was drinking Hoffman’s through a straw.”
    If anybody has it or knows where I can find it please let me know.
    Thanks

  5. John Dunn Says:

    I have noticed major search sorting problems lately, missing audio files and now no search results whatsoever. Is there a way to posting a note on the head of all pages telling us the issues and the progress being made?

    Sincerely

    John Dunn
    afterfostercare@hotmail.com

  6. peter Says:

    Dear Sir / Madam

    I have listed the website http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/ on the directory http://www.photographiclibraries.com/ under the categories Blogs - Community Marketplace,
    hope that this is acceptable ? if not then please contact me and I will remove the listing.

    Regards

    Peter

  7. Phineas Says:

    I have shared Steve Brooks’ desire to track down the Hoffman’s jingle. My wife says it was from an old song she knew, in which the prettiest girl was sipping cider, not a Hoffman’s soda. And the Web seems to confirm that, with many entries referring to cider. I guess that the Hoffman folks modified it to suit their commericial needs.

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