Internet Archive Artifact #000
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome to this new series where I explore random artifacts from one of my favorite places on the Internet, the Internet Archive . Its biggest claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, where you can look at what a website looked like at some point in the past. So you could go look at what the USA.gov website looked like in December, 1999 or see what this blog looked like in 2015 ! But the amount of artifacts deeply stored within the Internet Archive is endless! Why do this? Well, I'm a big fan of the public domain and open access. I wrote an entire dissertation about making things more widely available and I spend a good part of January the last few years putting up new public domain films on my YouTube channel , which includes having to submit appeals to YouTube because companies are still claiming copyright. I like the idea of reminding folks of what's already out there to play with. I also needed a new challenge or focus for thi...