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    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to All on Sat Feb 24 18:46:00 2024
    I have been somewhat familiar with archive.org in the past, but
    by some seredipity/chance/fluke or whatever, I happened to look
    for classic hollywood films and discovered that there are quite
    lot available for download! I was particularily impressed with
    the colourized versions of some familiar classics. I liked
    that they even have a category for film noir (a favourite
    genre). Overall, the archive.org seems better and more
    organized since the last time I dropped by several years ago.

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  • From Kurisu@21:3/122 to Ogg on Sat Feb 24 18:28:18 2024
    It really is pretty impressive what's been made accessable on The Internet Archive over the past half decade. Pretty big archives of all kinds of content years ago I couldn't find: including many films.

    In fact until recently the restored original versions of Star Wars were on there, but they did get taken down. Should have snagged them but the 50gb+ size per film were a bit much to commit to downloading.

    You can find some weird stuff, too: what looked like a perfectly normal early 80's film turned out to be.. uh.. adult entertainment... after the first 15 minutes and I had no clue it would go that way but that's the risk you take just watching anything that looks interesting, I guess.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Ogg on Sat Feb 24 19:17:45 2024
    I have been somewhat familiar with archive.org in the past, but
    by some seredipity/chance/fluke or whatever, I happened to look
    for classic hollywood films and discovered that there are quite
    lot available for download!

    I <3 archive.org / textfiles.com.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to paulie420 on Sun Feb 25 09:44:00 2024
    paulie420 wrote to Ogg <=-

    I <3 archive.org / textfiles.com.

    I suppose it would be a simple task to take a screen scrape of
    archive.org and make a files.bbs file out of it. :)



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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 25 20:09:03 2024
    I <3 archive.org / textfiles.com.

    I suppose it would be a simple task to take a screen scrape of
    archive.org and make a files.bbs file out of it. :)

    archive.org IS the files.bbs. LOL - its the one archive I don't have the balls to take on!



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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to paulie420 on Thu Mar 14 14:02:12 2024
    I suppose it would be a simple task to take a screen scrape of archive.org and make a files.bbs file out of it. :)

    archive.org IS the files.bbs. LOL - its the one archive I don't have the balls to take on!

    i can't even imagine how much storage would be required :)

    -h1

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to hollowone on Thu Mar 14 21:42:24 2024
    i can't even imagine how much storage would be required :)

    You know - if there was one project I'd love to work on it would be archive.org! I do listen to Jason Scott's podcast and streams and theres so much work that he puts in, tho - I'm sure its a lot more hard work than awesomeness...



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