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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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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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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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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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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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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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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