Archive.org feels like the only website truly for the people

I rarely think this way, but I hope everyone involved gets outed publicly and out behind bars for this.

this is the one website you don't touch.
 
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Those ps3 bios files you needed? We got you
Wanna listen to a bunch of audio books for free? No problem
Wanna play the wonderswan color dragon ball Z games in a browser with an Xbox controller? Go ahead
Need a textbook pdf? Right this way bro
Wanna view your myspace page as it existed in 2005? Ok

  • Want to find a bunch of old magazines for various subjects - right here
  • want to find old cartoons and TV shows in shocking high quality (mostly DVD tier rips) - yup
  • Need an old piece of software or a driver that you refuse to visit a shady warez site for? here you go...
  • abandonware? - in droves...
  • Manuals? Need a hard to find manual? - here it is.

... Or how about...

The original un-basterized version of 'Do the Bartman" that appeared on TV all the way back in 1990, in 4:3 with no 16:9 cropping, completely intact with the scenes featuring people dancing in front of the Twin Towers, Eiffel Tower and the Berlin Wall?

The version that you looked for on Youtube and other websites for half a decade, only to find the hacked-up edit that aired on Fox in 2009 after Michael Jackson's death? (Michael did write the song: Do the Bartman under a pseudonym) ...
Here it is...



For comparison, the poorly re-edited version that aired on Fox 2009 and onwards:



Cropped to 16:9 to cut off art from the top and bottom of each scene, which also messes up the framing. Shitty despeckling filter and line enhancement filter that messes up all of the hand-painted cells. Missing scenes.


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I'm never going to make an original thread covering this... so I will add these two additional examples of why the Archive.org upload is superior...
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still the best site on the web; I'd rather lose access to the entire rest of the internet and keep this site than the reverse, and that's no hyperbole. You can spend a lifetime on it.

Lately I've been reading 1980s computer hobbyist magazines, even running some fun programs for machines like TRS80 (which used to be printed in magazines for manual entry line by line!) on emulators by having an LLM transcribe the 15-25 pages of code for me first. Amazing content.
 

I'm never going to make an original thread covering this... so I will add these two additional examples of why the Archive.org upload is superior...
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This happens so much with music channels it's unbelievable. The ending to The Fugees - Killing Me Softly is ruined since the bottom text is cut off.
 
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