Internet Archive Website

July 22nd, 2010 by brendall in Useful Websites

The Internet Archive is located at www.archive.org and is a large freely available online library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages , and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
The Archive also includes a library which contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download. The Software Archive is designed to preserve and provide access to all kinds of rare or difficult to find, legally downloadable software titles and background information on those titles. The collection includes a broad range of software related materials including shareware, freeware, video news releases about software titles, speed runs of actual software game play, previews and promos for software games, high-score and skill replays of various game genres, and the art of filmmaking with real-time computer game engines.
The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books.
Check out how honest you are with this instructional film from 1950:
http://www.archive.org/details/HowHones1950