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Help Protect the Internet Archive!
“If our patrons around the globe think this latest situation is upsetting, then they should be very worried about what the publishing and recording industries have in mind,” added Kahle. “I think they are trying to destroy this library entirely and hobble all libraries everywhere. But just as we’re resisting the DDoS attack, we appreciate all the support in pushing back on this unjust litigation against our library and others.”
I just donated to Archive.org because they have spent the past two decades building this Digital Library that has collected over 100 PETRAbytes (1 petra = 1000 tera) of content from all over time and the world.
All kinds of media, even game emulators.
Books you can rent.
Full feature films.
Historical documents.
Webpages - The Wayback Machine, archiving over 860mill webpages across time, is part of the library.
The have a slew of projects designed to help allow libraries and everyday individuals contribute to this library as well as help give everyone access like Offline Archive , Bookserver - even in unique ways like with the Bookmobile!
They are also under attack though, which is what encouraged me to contribute today. Libraries across the US, and lets be real - access to education in many areas of the world - is under attack. I do suspect not just DDoS, not just businesses, but even governments seeking to oppress people will try to suppress this archive and the knowledge is holds.
While you can donate there are other ways to help:
Volunteering is an option, if that fits your bill. If you have collections that should be digitized, they have Scanning Services that would help people contribute non-digitized media to the archive. Also the aptly named Open Library is a great place to contribute either with books or if you are a programmer you can build on top of the data as well. There are also some jobs available! (i can't be sure without their info, but they may qualify as a PSLF employer since they are non-profit)
Archive.org is my new favorite place of all time. Both because of the content but also because of the mission at the heart of it all:
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
Rob Gonsalves, 1959
golem in a hybernation state in library of babel’s hexagonal infinite rooms...
The concept of the infinite library has been explored by authors such as Lewis Carroll, Terry Pratchett, Umberto Eco and Jorge Luis Borges. Library of Blabber is a free video game based on the Borges’ short story “The Library of Babel”, which imagines an endless library which holds all the possible books of the universe, and on Jonathan Basile's libraryofbabel.info project.
In the words of the developer, @nothke, “this ‘little’ game is focused on exploration and the fun of meaningful discoveries in the noise of random data. Although it does not posses the mathematical correctness and "purity" of the original story, it still does contain enough pages of nonsense worthy of several hundred lifetimes...”.
biblioteca infinita
