*PREVIEW* 186. Wayback Machine w/ Jason Scott (Internet Archive)

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2.5 hour rundown of one of the worlds most treasured resources—the Internet Archive—with digital archive legend Jason Scott of Internet Archive. We go in on the ins and outs of the collection and why preserving pre-online digital media matters now more than ever

We discuss ripping VHS tapes of Tuvalu in the 1980’s, Rick Prelinger: saving old government films, Brewster Kahle and the foundation of the archive, origins and history of the Wayback Machine, weird fetishes, how sometimes multi millionaires do good things, bankrolling poor art bands and coed sororities, Eastern European hacker magazines, why the Internet Archive is not a front, company housing, preserving offline digital culture, the cost of lost memory, dealing with forged documents, procuring and authenticating 17th century manuscripts, the repair manual library, Argentinian political radio stations, The Wave (1981), why censorship is bad: the non rage-farming perspective, "Agnostic Ingestion", crappy playbooks on how to whip people up into a frenzy, thought leaders, running from past, technical issues of preserving software, Library of Congress, 4000 3-4 hour mixes of Brazilian Dance music, ‘the heroin of online life’, countercultural house organs, + much more...very inspiring and fun convo