BBC News: An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images. Kalev Leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to Flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added. The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organization.
Internet Archive is playing their part during the Covid-19 outbreak by making National Emergency Library aid service to what it calls displaced learners.
Two programmer-musicians have created and copyrighted every single melody possible and committed it to a hard drive.
If you grew up playing games on MS-DOS, you're in for a treat. The Internet Archive has added another 2,500 MS-DOS games to its collection.
this is a valuable resource. good that someone is thinking about backing all this up. it would be a shame to lose tons of historical images in a natural disaster or something.