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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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What are your internet favorite archive repositories? (alien.top)

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Other than the internet archive obviously

I’m searching for old media, 90s popups, old magazines, weird posters, odd exploitation films, just generally anything that is almost being erased and is not commercially friendly. Where are good places to dig stuff up like that?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As a common source, obviously, internet archive is my choice. If I cannot find anything there, I start googling, so basically no favourite archive repositories for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you are a torrent user, you may find a lot of fun things on the tracker Cathode-Ray Tube.

It's sole purpose is media that is 20+ years old, and it's basically a tiny version of MySpleen - lots of old, rare, obscure, and (a recent increase in) foreign titles. They also have a LOT of WOC content - TV recorded with original commercials, which is my favorite part of it.

Less-so on magazines and print, although there is some of that on there.