Archives to past information
Historical maps David Rumsey Map Collection, an archive of over 15,000 maps online.
The Rosetta Project “ALL documented human languages.”
For news Google News Archives, past copies of newspapers, journals and news magazines. Wikipedia’s news list of online newspaper archives.
The Rockefeller Archives thousands of documents are available here for viewing in at least six+ archived collections.
You can browse the Smoking Gun’s archives celebrity crime information (with mugshots).
Multimedia
Over 5,000 movie reviews at the Balcony Archives.
Classical music fan, browse the Mutopia archives music by instrument, composer and style.
NOVA, a PBS, an archive of 170+ companion sites to their program lineup, from anthropology to technology.
For everything 911 see the Television Archive a library of online information pertaining to September 11, 2001, and you can view the September 11 Digital Archive or the Library of Congress’ September 11 Web Archive.
Check out the British Library with 12,000 recordings of music, spoken word and human and natural environments.
The Internet Archive, is one of the most comprehensive Moving Images Archive and Audio Archive available.
Print media
Need to find comic and get your addiction satisfied? Try the Calvin and Hobbes Archive, a collection of strips dating back to 1985.
The Smithsonian magazine archive of every magazine published from 1995 to the present; with access to past copies of Air and Space magazine.
Science
Archived NASA Images can be obtained at NASA Image of the Day going back to 1995, with over 9000 NASA photos at the JSC Digital Image Collection.
Storm weather archives, are available at the National Hurricane Center Archives, with hundreds of years of information accessable.
Web information
The Internet Archive, a collection of TONS of stuff. for more Internet Archive’s check out the Wayback Machine, gives you access to view a site as it was back in the day.
Go back in browser history with Browser Archive; and see the Obsolete Computers an archive of vintage technology.
Government
Rated as one of the most useful is the National Archives, archived historical documents, or check out the Archive of Folk Culture, or if you want to track down the archive of terrorist attacks on the United States, and the historical collection as saved by the Department of Labor archives.
Source: Wendy Boswell, subscribe to her feature series Technophilia using the Technophilia feed.
“The Future of the Internet – And How To Stop It” Jonathan Zittrain previewing his forthcoming book with a response by Professor Larry Lessig and an introduction by Google’s own Vint Cerf.
March 20, 2008
