Big Database

A phone number database is a digital file. It holds many phone numbers. Often, it also has names. It might even include addresses. Sometimes, more details are there. These databases can be huge. They might have millions of entries. People sometimes try to find these online. However, many are not ...

Before you send any text, you need a plan. First, make sure people want your texts. This means they must agree to get them. This is called opting-in. You can ask them to sign up on your website. Or they can text a special word to your number. Next, think about what you want to send. Do you want to ...

A truly distributed Web will require different kinds of companies. Today, tech startups rely on types of financing that demand an “exit” in one of two forms: an acquisition by a bigger company or an IPO on Wall Street. Both options help drive us toward radical centralization of power, no matter how ...

The Internet Archive’s Community Webs Program Welcomes 60+ New Members from the US, Canada and Internationally
Posted onOctober 18, 2021by Lori Donovan

Community Webs, the Internet Archive’s community history web and digital archiving program, is welcoming over 60 new members from across the US ...

Thus, the product of book banning was the revolution—many years later. In essence, the revolution was an amalgamation of a seemingly unidentified people, split among social, religious, and political lines, coming together to reconcile the calamities of over half a century. Namely, the effects of ...

For example, ICC has provisional status with the International Maritime Organization (IMO), is an active member at the Arctic Council senior level and within the working groups and is a prominent voice at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Work and engagement occur in many ways ...

The #Syllabus collection, created by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, which “aims to web archive Black-authored and Black-related educational resources to document Black studies, movements, and experiences in the twenty-first century.”

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WALLED CULTURE is the first book providing a compact, non-technical history of digital copyright and its problems over the last 30 years, and the social, economic and technological implications.

Steering our conversation will be Maria Bustillos, writer and editor of the Brick ...

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Chris Freeland
For those asking how you can support the Internet Archive, there will be a rally on the steps of the Internet Archive on Saturday, April 8 @ 11am PT.

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This was more than sufficient for most cassette-based titles. But some wanted to go a little further to inform the user.
A significant upgrade was adding a sort of “loading screen” to the process, where the lines would still move, but around a “title card” that informed you what was “coming soon” to ...