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Is a database of everything in the public domain, any format you can think of: videos, digital books, audio files, software files, etc., all available in any type of file you knew existed, and others you didn’t. It is a useful tool for finding archival video footage, any sort of audiobook you want to listen to, commercials aired on Cartoon Network in 2006, or incriminating documents on your enemies. Sometimes, when all my free trials of streaming services run out I spend the final lazy hours of my day browsing archive.org finding all sorts of esoterica like: Horses 2 (Wide Screen), The care and training of your pet rock [digital book], and Virtual Women 95 [computer program].
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Full of information, archives within archives. A lot of cool old government film clips and PSAs and science and educational films. Tons of books and audiobooks and really obscure/fringe writing from the whole spectrum of political thought as well as classics. Also going on the website wayback machine and looking for websites I made on Geocities when I was 12 is fun. Makes you feel like an archaeologist.
Sep 20, 2022
Jan 28, 2024
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The internet archive is just the greatest thing ever, i love it for the ephemeral films and lost home videos, old religious and esoteric manuscripts, textbooks, nasa photos, centuries’ worth of magazine issues, old records, lectures…. 💌
Jan 13, 2025
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Is another website I love, created and maintained by an eccentric and apparently isolated pseudo-scientist named Eugene M. McCarthy. It features a confusing and unnavigable index of pages all providing recorded instances of trans-species hybrids: Cat x RabbitAxis Deer × TahrAss x ZebraPig x Human (for some reason McCarthy finds this particular hybrid to be the most credible and irrefutable account of a human hybrid, but its clearly just a deformed piglet). Poking around macroevolution.net and finding all sorts of disturbing and compressed images of these creatures that offend the natural order combined with the fragmented, disorganized site design gives you an acute uneasy sensation of disgust. Many of the pages back up dubious hybrid accounts with only ancient drawings McCarthy found, others have more credible evidence like photographs, and may go as far as, such as on Dog × Cow, including actual GIFs of one of the species fornicating with the other.
Dec 11, 2023
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my favorite youtube personality, makes incredibly insightful and charming videos about beach boys songs. She'll recreate or analyze entire songs and focus on specifics of different songs/eras of the beach boys. She focuses in on what interests me about the Brian Wilson, both the technical and emotional
Dec 11, 2023
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brilliant Geography songs with great production. British Isles, Former USSR, Eastern Europe, and Middle East are all highlights of the 34 track album but the true gem to me is Southeast Asia
Dec 11, 2023