Archive to the future, let the show begin!
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, get beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
Last night I went to an open house event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. They chose the date 2015-10-21, the day when Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived in the future.
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, such as web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As you can imagine, this requires a huge amount of storage - now over 15 petabytes. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.
There were stands with hands-on demos on book scanning, playing vintage games, and playing 3-D video games with the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles. We then were ushered upstairs to the big hall for presentations - the building is a former church. At the evening they presented the first Internet Archive Hero Award to the Grateful Dead, which were pioneers in sharing. The Internet Archive is a truly visionary organization let by Chairman Brewster Khale.
The Internet Archive is using our TWiki collaboration platform to coordinate work internally. Thank you for using TWiki!
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8761_hdr1bal1e
Archive to the future, let the show begin!
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, get beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
Last night I went to an open house event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. They chose the date 2015-10-21, the day when Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived in the future.
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, such as web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As you can imagine, this requires a huge amount of storage - now over 15 petabytes. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.
There were stands with hands-on demos on book scanning, playing vintage games, and playing 3-D video games with the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles. We then were ushered upstairs to the big hall for presentations - the building is a former church. At the evening they presented the first Internet Archive Hero Award to the Grateful Dead, which were pioneers in sharing. The Internet Archive is a truly visionary organization let by Chairman Brewster Khale.
The Internet Archive is using our TWiki collaboration platform to coordinate work internally. Thank you for using TWiki!
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8761_hdr1bal1e