MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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I'm quite techie in some ways, mainly ways that involve engineering using hammers and lathes, mining equipment and low speed aerodynamics plus a bit of science. Computers? Well I used Macs from their first arrival here - I actually did a lot of the art for the original marketing campaign - but apart from wandering the internet that is pretty much it.
So I love XKCD for directing me down little alleys I didn't know were there. Today's strip gave me my first view of the npm left-pad incident which I found fascinating (as usual I love a good comments section) but more importantly it mentions the Internet Archive.
I knew about the Wayback Machine but I never realised just how big it is and the diversity of material.
For whoever was asking about weird film on YouTube a while back check this out: https://archive.org/details/feature_films
But there is so much more I never guessed was available.
https://archive.org/
Oh my I’m going to lose hours looking at that film archive, nice find.
This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis.
Oh my I’m going to lose hours looking at that film archive, nice find.
The scale of the whole thing amazes me. Hiding in plain sight... (Not the tagline to one of the movies.)