August 2020 Browsing the Archive | | Eureka! Historic LGBTQ Video Game Found The recent Netflix documentary High Score has raised interest in GayBlade, a unique product of both LGTBQ and video gaming history. Although the documentary tells a tragic tale—the game was thought to have been lost forever—there's light at the end of this dungeon crawl. Check out the story behind this fascinating find… and then play GayBlade for yourself! | | Help Wanted: Make the 19th Century Searchable This journal for newly freed slaves published by Frederick Douglass is just one of more than two million texts in the Internet Archive dating before 1900. The problem: how to make these older texts more machine readable for better search, analysis and discovery. Internet Archive's founder, Brewster Kahle, calls upon a new breed of techie, Culture Techies, willing to bring their skills to bear on unlocking our cultural treasures. | | The Final Stroke? Perhaps Not. He was called the "High Priest of Typewriters." For 70 years, Martin and Pearl Tytell were world experts on every make, model and function of the manual typewriter. Their son, Peter, carried on the family specialty in forensic analysis of type. This month in their New York City offices, the snap of the carriage return, the clack of the keys, the ding of the bell drew inexorably silent. But the Tytell collection of typewriters, manuals, books and ephemera will not be lost. Dive into the final chapters of one family's devotion to much more than a machine—and how the Internet Archive will help preserve this important piece of history. | | New Ways to Chip In! Are you a mobile wallet fan? Do you use the Internet Archive on your phone? We've updated our payment systems to make donating quicker and easier for users on mobile! We recently added three new platforms to our donate page—so if you use Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Venmo, then now's a perfect time to chip in! | |  | Listening in Style
The Winamp media player has been a popular way to listen to music for decades, and the skins used to transform its user interface have become an art form in and of themselves. The Internet Archive not only has more than 65,000 Winamp skins available—enough to try a different design every day for 175 years—but also allows you to emulate Winamp in your browser, letting you use different skins while listening to music from the archive. Check out the collection here! |  | Partying in Pyongyang
Karaoke is a popular pastime around the world... even including the famously isolated nation of North Korea. This collection of over 3,600 North Korean karaoke videos provides a fascinating look into the collision of pop culture and propaganda within the country—a strange world where military marches and patriotic anthems coexist alongside traditional folk songs and adaptations of foreign pop hits. You can listen here... or, if you speak Korean, sing along! | | | Ever search for an item in the Internet Archive and come up with 9,350 results? The Internet Archive is home to literally millions of texts, images, videos and software—which sometimes makes finding the exact thing you want somewhat tricky. Fortunately, if you know a few tricks, the Archive's search function allows you to build powerful queries that can help you narrow down exactly what you're looking for. Check out this video to learn how to improve your Archive searches! | | What We're Reading & Watching | | | If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Internet Archive, we would greatly appreciate your support. Thank you for helping us provide Universal Access To All Knowledge. | | | | |
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