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Full of information, archives within archives. A lot of cool old government film clips and PSAs and science and educational films. Tons of books and audiobooks and really obscure/fringe writing from the whole spectrum of political thought as well as classics. Also going on the website wayback machine and looking for websites I made on Geocities when I was 12 is fun. Makes you feel like an archaeologist.
Sep 20, 2022
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The internet archive is just the greatest thing ever, i love it for the ephemeral films and lost home videos, old religious and esoteric manuscripts, textbooks, nasa photos, centuries’ worth of magazine issues, old records, lectures…. 💌
Jan 13, 2025
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Is a database of everything in the public domain, any format you can think of: videos, digital books, audio files, software files, etc., all available in any type of file you knew existed, and others you didn’t. It is a useful tool for finding archival video footage, any sort of audiobook you want to listen to, commercials aired on Cartoon Network in 2006, or incriminating documents on your enemies. Sometimes, when all my free trials of streaming services run out I spend the final lazy hours of my day browsing archive.org finding all sorts of esoterica like: Horses 2 (Wide Screen), The care and training of your pet rock [digital book], and Virtual Women 95 [computer program].
Dec 11, 2023
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its so cool to still stumble across sites like this. i was trying to find where to watch a pretty underground movie and someone on reddit pointed me in this direction and now i come here first when trying to find a niche film im trying to watch. it has so much more than just movies though. so cool to see history documented in real time like this.
Jan 29, 2025
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Rice is the best food. Perfect texture. I love any rice based dish. Sushi is probably humanity’s greatest culinary achievement.
Sep 20, 2022
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Instrumental is probably the wrong word, but ambient, noise, classical, electronic music, etc. music without words. I love lyrics and poetry, and listen to music with words a lot, but many times, especially in headphones, when I listen to music I can hear my own thoughts better, and hearing someone else’s in there is too distracting.
Sep 20, 2022
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It’s like a film class that you make your own curriculum for. I honestly never really liked movies that much until I got a subscription. It seemed like too much work to try and understand the whole history of cinema. Now I realize that film making is an art form that’s made of all the other art forms. Music and sound, photography, painting, sculpture, writing, story telling. My life is changed.
Sep 20, 2022