> Just a little over ten years ago [...] a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive
That's a crazy amount of time, with a nice amount of manuals now publicly available, about ~3.5 manuals PER DAY, for a decade! Few people are as dedicated as Jason Scott when it comes to making sure information stays free and available, thank you a lot for what you, Archive Team and Internet Archive is doing for all of us!
stavros 41 minutes ago [-]
I follow him on Bluesky and he routinely raises money to buy things on auction and scan them/digitize them and upload them for free. One-of-a-kind concert tapes, obscure software floppy disks, random manuals, videotapes of random shows, anything old, he digitizes it and imports it into the Internet Archive.
Really doing great work preserving stuff that would otherwise be lost to time.
zozbot234 3 hours ago [-]
> a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive
Why are we even doing this? This is just humanity giving free extra training to its future robot overlords. /s
qingcharles 2 hours ago [-]
Hopefully they'll be able to write better manuals.
I had the good fortune of being able to hang out and watch him and some vintage Apple enthusiasts recover some source code for an old game. I have a lot of admiration for his dedication.
ethagnawl 2 hours ago [-]
Indeed.
His podcast, _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_, is an entertaining, informative and (often) touching listen, too.
That's a crazy amount of time, with a nice amount of manuals now publicly available, about ~3.5 manuals PER DAY, for a decade! Few people are as dedicated as Jason Scott when it comes to making sure information stays free and available, thank you a lot for what you, Archive Team and Internet Archive is doing for all of us!
Really doing great work preserving stuff that would otherwise be lost to time.
Why are we even doing this? This is just humanity giving free extra training to its future robot overlords. /s
His podcast, _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_, is an entertaining, informative and (often) touching listen, too.
What appliances? Or was it textbooks, or what?