An Archive of a Different Type

Nice wordplay.<p>What an incredible collection. Once again, the IA is one of the most important bits to come out of the internet. Long after Facebook and Twitter are forgotten (does anybody remember the name of the town crier in Alexandria?) the Archive will hopefully continue to exist and will continue to amaze.<p>I learned how to type when I was 15 on one of those clunky old Scheidegger machines with anonymized key caps. 40 years later I still use that skill every day, so this article probably resonated with me for that reason alone.<p>But to see the physical part of the Archive really warms my heart, at least one group has their eye firmly on the ball and is able to say &#x27;we&#x27;ll take all of it&#x27; in cases like these.

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Bless the Internet Archive, despite being fairly well known in tech circles it doesn&#x27;t get the recognition it deserves.

&gt; Imagine you mount a letter wrong while crafting a typewriter, and it causes a country (Burma) to change that letter to accommodate your mistake.<p>Does anyone know the details behind this?

<i>Some of these books are very old; an 1892 treatise on the ins and outs of bookkeeping was particularly beautiful.</i><p>One of the things I really like about books is the ease with which you can immediately start reading one, despite it possibly being over a century old; some things just have not changed much over time. It&#x27;s a very refreshing feeling for someone working in an industry obsessed with change and breaking things every few months.<p>...and &quot;prototype design drawings for the first HP laser printer&quot; --- definitely looking forward to seeing that one!

It&#x27;s excellent that they could, institutionally, release their set margins, allowing carriage of such otherwise unjustified material.

I love this and posts like it, it makes me want to quit my job and become an archivist, just spend my time going through all of this material, digitizing it and publishing about it and becoming a typewriter nerd even though I&#x27;ve never used one outside of playing with old busted ones.<p>If I were a rich internet company, I&#x27;d gladly fund them gratuitously. For now, a monthly contribution will have to do.

Thanks for enjoying the article, everyone.

i think they mean a normal archive of physical materials. archivist have been working with collections like these long before the internet archive existed.