Many gamers wont load a console emulator for much more than a brief nostalgia kick. The Internet Archive has loftier goals, however. Its expanding its Historical Software Collection to include the free-to-play Console Living Room beta, which recreates classic 70s and 80s systems on the web for the sake of the historical record.
FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862, making it the oldest toy retailer in the US. Now, thanks to the Internet Archive, a brochure published in 1911 by the companys New York store — the inspiration for Home Alone 2s Duncans Toy Chest — has been digitized. It shows toy tastes from a century ago with […]
Fortunately no-one was injured in the blaze, but the property damage has ruined some physical materials that were yet to be digitized, and restricted the non-profit organizations ability to record the history of the web. Of the physical materials the fire destroyed, about half had already been digitized. The Internet Archive says its now working […]
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