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What We Archived This Week 02

PHOTOS FROM THE MOMA

I just spent a girls’ weekend in New York with my best friends to celebrate turning 30. It was the first time we’d all gotten together since my wedding a couple of years ago, and we decided to spend a day at a museu...

a month ago
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Chronicling Trump's Online Feud with Pope Leo

In a bizarre turn of events, the President of the United States has begun a feud with the first American Pope.

The Pentagon begins by meeting with The Vatican in early April for talks that quickly become tense. The Pentagon, from here, br...

a month ago
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Internet Forensics Issue 04

AUM SHINRIKYO’S ORIGINAL WEBSITE

This is the official website for Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that released the highly toxic nerve gas, sarin, into three lines of the Tokyo Metro in 1995 as part of a coordinated attack that killed 14 people...

a month ago
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Internet Forensics Issue 03

TAMAGOTCHI EMULATOR

There’s soooo much cool stuff in the Software Library on Internet Archive, including this fully operational Tamagotchi emulator. I forgot these only had THREE buttons. Feed it, play with it, bathe it, forget it, whate...

2 months ago
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Internet Forensics: Issue 02

PULP FICTION

This week, I found some fantastic old pulp covers from books and magazines. They range from the 1930s to the 1970s and beyond. Here are a few of my favorites:

Lord of the Rings Pulp Cover Collector’s Edition, 1979

Advice...

3 months ago
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    Iranian-American writer and Internet lover with a memoir on the way (GHOST GIRL with Penguin Random House out in 2027)

  • Alexis Durante-Tierney

    Cajun-Creole Digital Archivist & Cultural Preservationist ⚜️ Master of Library and Information Science / Vatican Archives Fellow 2023 / Co-Founder, The Accessible Archivist Coalition

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