Hacker News with Generative AI: Preservation

Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting (archive.org)
The following guest post from digital humanities scholar Nichole Misako Nomura is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now.

Digital Humanities, Preservation, History, Culture

120 points by HieronymusBosch 9 days ago | 25 comments

Data Hoarders Are Rushing to Save Vanishing US Health Records (bloomberg.com)
A grassroots effort to preserve US government data takes shape

Data, Health Records, Government, US, Preservation

6 points by toomuchtodo 15 days ago | 1 comments

GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects (gamingonlinux.com)
GOG made a press announcement today to note they've joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP).

Gaming, Preservation, Archives, Museums, Europe

246 points by LorenDB 37 days ago | 38 comments

Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving (ycombinator.com)
It's amazing how software from a major company that is less than 30 years old can get lost & forgotten so fast.

Operating Systems, Software History, Preservation, IBM, OS/2

74 points by markostamcar 68 days ago | 20 comments

GOG's Game Preservation Program Gets Tested Early by Blizzard (techdirt.com)
It was only a few weeks ago that we discussed Good Old Games’ (GOG) return to its roots with the site’s “GOG Preservation Program”.

Gaming, Preservation, Business, Software

8 points by speckx 77 days ago | 0 comments

Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program (arstechnica.com)
Blizzard, a company that has recently released remastered versions of Warcraft and Warcraft II for $10 and $15, respectively (or in a bundle with III for $40) on its Battle.net storefront, has asked GOG to remove its non-remastered, DRM-free $15 bundle of those games from its store on December 13.

Gaming, Business, DRM, Preservation, Digital Distribution

239 points by Tomte 81 days ago | 185 comments

GOG's preservation program lets you keep playing games after they're delisted (theverge.com)
GOG has announced that even if games in its recently launched preservation program are delisted from its store, it will maintain compatibility with those games and offer players “a seamless experience and tech support for those titles.”

Gaming, Preservation, Digital Distribution

10 points by Shank 81 days ago | 0 comments

The US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation (gamesradar.com)

Copyright, Video Games, Preservation

146 points by bobthepanda 86 days ago | 180 comments

Unreal and Unreal Tournament Are in the Internet Archive (rockpapershotgun.com)
Epic Games has given the OK for their 1998 shooter Unreal to be hosted on the Internet Archive, essentially making the classic sci-fi alien blaster free, and preserving it for the future.

Video Games, Preservation, Internet Archive, Classic Games

11 points by noch 87 days ago | 1 comments

Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (techdirt.com)
One of the most frustrating aspects in the ongoing conversation around the preservation of older video games, also known as cultural output, is the collision of IP rights and some publishers’ unwillingness to both continue to support and make available these older games and their refusal to release those same games into the public domain so that others can do so.

Video Games, IP Rights, Preservation, Gaming History

488 points by chocmake 94 days ago | 116 comments

Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive (rockpapershotgun.com)
Epic Games has given the OK for their 1998 shooter Unreal to be hosted on the Internet Archive, essentially making the classic sci-fi alien blaster free, and preserving it for the future.

Video Games, Preservation, Internet Archive, Free Software

9 points by Tomte 98 days ago | 0 comments

GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics (arstechnica.com)
The classic PC games market is "in a sorry state," according to DRM-free and classic-minded storefront GOG.

Gaming, Digital Distribution, Preservation, DRM-Free, Classics

161 points by m463 99 days ago | 61 comments

GOG new program focuses on preserving classic games (arstechnica.com)
The classic PC games market is "in a sorry state," according to DRM-free and classic-minded storefront GOG. Small games that aren't currently selling get abandoned, and compatibility issues arise as technology moves forward or as one-off development ideas age like milk.

Gaming, Preservation, Technology, Retro Gaming

10 points by neiman 100 days ago | 0 comments

GOG Preservation Program (gog.com)
Time is erasing the games that shaped you. Forgotten, incompatible, unplayable.

Gaming, Preservation, Digital Archives

44 points by Tomte 100 days ago | 5 comments

Kliktopia Archive (kliktopia.org)
Trying to find an old Klik game or have old Klik games to be preserved? You've come to the right place!

Gaming, Archives, Preservation

4 points by RGamma 113 days ago | 1 comments

Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks (archive.org)
The following guest post from humanities scholar Katie Livingston is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age.

Culture, Preservation, Digital Humanities, Cookbooks

161 points by TangerineDream 144 days ago | 124 comments

How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes (peelarchivesblog.com)
It’s been a while since we posted one of our articles pulling back the curtains on archival work. To make up for that, here’s a special edition of our popular Archives FAQs and Facts series. For the first time, we’ll compare how archivists in two countries do things a little differently to achieve a common goal.

Archives, Preservation, History, Comparison

172 points by bookofjoe 154 days ago | 27 comments

Petition calls for saving Europe's video games from deletion (euronews.com)

Video Games, Europe, Culture, Preservation

7 points by taubek 195 days ago | 0 comments

SF's Historic Preservation Rules Are in Limbo, All Part of CA's Push for Housing (thefrisc.com)

Housing, Politics, California, San Francisco, Preservation

27 points by jseliger 204 days ago | 53 comments

How to Preserve Physical Photos (ente.io)

Photography, Preservation, Archival

78 points by goodburb 214 days ago | 41 comments

My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a historic district (plover.com)