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Aug 25
We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books:
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🌐 With 370+ campers & 350+ sessions & activities, there was no way to experience everything at DWeb Camp. That’s part of the point: JOMO, the joy of missing out. On Aug. 27, hear about projects & takeaways from Camp with Matthew Hodgson, Arushi Bandi & Alaska. 📅 Thurs. Aug.
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📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can actually be the product of a system. In BIG FICTION, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues that books are often shaped by a much larger industrial system: agents, editors, marketers, wholesalers & others whose decisions
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🕳️ What happens when an entire TV network nearly disappears from history? 📺 The DuMont Network pioneered television with firsts that shaped the medium, yet much of its legacy is gone forever. Media historian Taylor Cole Miller explores how one of America's most innovative TV
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Aug 22
🤖 Long before personal computers became commonplace, people were fascinated by the idea of machines that could think, talk, and act on their own. From ELIZA to Little Computer People, early software used clever programming to create the illusion of intelligence, personality,