slackercruster
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I worked for the Internet Archive for 5-1/2 years as a volunteer. In May they banned me and deleted all my uploads, which totaled 70,000 to 110,000 items. Some of the items were audio, some were video and most were still photos or PDF books.
I don't have an exact number of items as I never counted the number of items in each collection. To me it was like putting money in a piggy bank. You keep putting in, you know it is a lot, but you never know. I lost some of the material as I used the Internet Archive as a cloud and didn't keep a backup. But I have the originals of 95% of the items. I wrote to ask if they could restore my account for a couple of days so I could download my lost files, but got no reply.
Beside having a photo and PDF website, is it practical for an individual to set up a mini YouTube type website that can have downloadable video and downloadable audio? The video does not have to be exactly like YouTube. It can be downloadable video files with just sample still clips if a YouTube video style website is too pricey.
If so, how much does it cost to set up such a website?
How much a year is it to maintain it?
Where would I go to learn how to do it?
Here is the material the Internet Archive deleted and what I want to put on my website. High resolution files would be free to the public. I'd call it 'The People's Archive'
Early Photography: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Opalotypes, Tintypes, Cyanotypes, Glass Plates, Autochromes, Gum Bichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Bromoil, & Salt Prints.
C.D.V. & Cabinet Cards
Sodbusters - Prairie Settlers
Fat Women of the 1800's
Fashion, Portrait & Vernacular Photographs from the 19th Century
Early Japanese 19th Century Albumen Photographs & Glass Plates
Early 20th Century Rodeo Photographs
Vintage Ballerinas & Dancers
Historical Collotype, Woodburytype, Photogravure & Halftone Plates
Pre-Jazz Era – WW I
Roaring 20’s – Flappers1930’s – Depression Era1940’s – WW II
Eiffel Tower
Bobbysoxers
Vintage Schools, Classrooms & Students
Vintage Dye Transfer Prints
Steel Pier Diving Horses
Girls with Cameras
1950’s – Extensive Beat Generation Archives
1960’s – Hippies
Vintage Kodachrome Slides
Fashion 1845 – 1980: Dresses, Hats, Ribbons, Bows, Bonnets, Buttons & Shoes
19th & 20th Century Muffs - Purses
Victorian & Edwardian Husband & Wife Portraits
19th Century Children
Extensive Collection of 19th & Early 20th Century Wedding Dresses
Mid 20th Century Satin & Lace Wedding Dresses
Tea Length Wedding Dresses
Vintage Wedding Parties
Vintage Bridal Bouquets & Nosegays
Vintage Bridal Headpieces
Magic Lantern Slides
Vintage Boxing Ladies
Artists & Art Studios
Mutilated Photos – Faces Cut Out
Vintage Travel Trailers
Breastfeeding
Majorettes
Vintage Radio, Hi-Fi, Reel to Reel, Television, HAM and Vacuum Tube Photos & Ephemera
QSL Postcard Archive / QSL Risqué Postcards
Historical Audio Recordings
Acetate Records
Airchecks Radio Transcriptions
Phil Schaap Jazz Archive
Reel to Reel & Cassette Tapes
Ruth Wallis Archive
Living Letters Archive
Nesta Kerin Crain Archive
Radio Station Photos and Ephemera
Early Beachwear
Fredericks of Hollywood Archive
Sami Laplanders Archive
Women’s Hairstyles 1840 – 1980
Hair Curlers
Christmas – Santa Claus – Snowmen
Vintage New York City
Before Photoshop – Retouched Photos
Of Historical Interest
Macabre
Yawning
Vintage Eyeglasses
Vintage African Postcards
Vintage Middle East Postcards
Newsworthy
Vintage Press Photos
Politics
Nixon Archive
JFK Archive
The McCarthy Era
Vintage Football
Press Photographers – Press Cameras
Roadside Americana – Dinosaur Statues
Stereo Photography
Painted (Retouched) Press Photos
Gender Studies
Vintage Nudes
Upskirts
Vintage Pornography
Sexual Deviants
Early Bondage, BDSM Photos and Ephemera
Crossdressers
Homosexual Erotica
Early Transvestite - Female Impersonators - Mimic Publications
Vintage Explicit Personal Correspondence
8mm and 16mm Vintage Pornography 1920 – 1970
16mm Adult Film Trailers
Vintage Homosexual & Heterosexual Cartoon Photos
Vintage 16mm Kodachrome Home Movies 1938 – 1960
Historical 16mm Films 1920 – 1960
Vintage Train Films
Educational Films & School Daily Life
Circus Films
Underground Films
Art Films – ‘Art Student’ Figure Films
Silent Films / Silent Films with later added comic narration
Cine Arts Films
Small Gauge Reel and Film Can Archive
Film Rental Catalogs
Vintage 1970’s VHS Pornography Videotapes1970’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS
Vintage Erotic Cartoons
Early #800, #900 & ‘.com’ Sex Ads on VHS
Early Homosexual VHS Sex Ads
Japanese 1980’s VHS Pornography Videotapes
Japanese 1980’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS
Obscure VHS Videotapes
Political Comix
Vintage Medical Photos
Sleepers
RPPC’s Propaganda
Outcasts
Underground Social Documentary Photography
Vernacular Snapshot Aesthetics
Vintage Circus
Vintage Night Photography
Whimsical
Halloween
Blackface
Historical NAACP / Racial Prejudice
Picnics
Ghost Transfer Images
Black Panther - Black Power Publications
Belle Barth Archive
Switchboard Operators
Vintage Parades1940’s – 1960’s
Swimsuits & Sportswear
Vintage Umbrellas & Parasols
Weegee Archive
Vintage Rodeo
Currier & Ives Darktown Comics
Vintage Print Advertising
Stripper Groupies
See-through Negligée
Trocadero Theatre
Bettie Page Archive
Hand-Colored Photos
Maurice Seymour Archive
Irving Klaw Zine & Ephemera
Irving Klaw Negative Archive
Vintage Pinups
Eric Stanton Illustrations
Sexploitation
Vintage Birthday Parties
Donald Trump
Film Era Ephemera
Vintage Cine’ & Still Camera Ephemera
Leica Publications & Ephemera
Vintage High School & College Yearbooks
Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy Collection
Down Syndrome
Self Harm – Cutters
Postmortem Photographs
Early Computer, Video & Cell Phone Ephemera
Black Americana
Vintage Sheet Music
Artists’ Books
Vintage Comix – Comics
Original Comix Art & Ephemera
Neo-Nazi - White Power Publications
Mimeograph Machine Photos & Ephemera
Vintage Jazz Photos, Periodicals & Ephemera
Yodeling Dick Brooks Archive
Early Mountain, Country, Hillbilly, Western & Folk Music
WWVA Jamboree Archive
Square Dance Music, Call Sheets and Ephemera
Mimeo Revolution Press – Little Magazines –Independent Press Poetry
Counterculture & Underground Newspapers
Paladin Press Archive
Covid-19 - Coronavirus Audio Archive
Vintage Newspapers
Handbills
Malware / Ransomware / SPAM / Robocall Correspondence
Laserdiscs
Zines
It is sickening how much work gets destroyed on the internet. I had worked for 4 years setting up 48 Tumblr's. They deleted them in 2019 and everything lost. Flickr...same thing.
Selection from Bridal Bouquet series...
I don't have an exact number of items as I never counted the number of items in each collection. To me it was like putting money in a piggy bank. You keep putting in, you know it is a lot, but you never know. I lost some of the material as I used the Internet Archive as a cloud and didn't keep a backup. But I have the originals of 95% of the items. I wrote to ask if they could restore my account for a couple of days so I could download my lost files, but got no reply.
Beside having a photo and PDF website, is it practical for an individual to set up a mini YouTube type website that can have downloadable video and downloadable audio? The video does not have to be exactly like YouTube. It can be downloadable video files with just sample still clips if a YouTube video style website is too pricey.
If so, how much does it cost to set up such a website?
How much a year is it to maintain it?
Where would I go to learn how to do it?
Here is the material the Internet Archive deleted and what I want to put on my website. High resolution files would be free to the public. I'd call it 'The People's Archive'
Early Photography: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Opalotypes, Tintypes, Cyanotypes, Glass Plates, Autochromes, Gum Bichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Bromoil, & Salt Prints.
C.D.V. & Cabinet Cards
Sodbusters - Prairie Settlers
Fat Women of the 1800's
Fashion, Portrait & Vernacular Photographs from the 19th Century
Early Japanese 19th Century Albumen Photographs & Glass Plates
Early 20th Century Rodeo Photographs
Vintage Ballerinas & Dancers
Historical Collotype, Woodburytype, Photogravure & Halftone Plates
Pre-Jazz Era – WW I
Roaring 20’s – Flappers1930’s – Depression Era1940’s – WW II
Eiffel Tower
Bobbysoxers
Vintage Schools, Classrooms & Students
Vintage Dye Transfer Prints
Steel Pier Diving Horses
Girls with Cameras
1950’s – Extensive Beat Generation Archives
1960’s – Hippies
Vintage Kodachrome Slides
Fashion 1845 – 1980: Dresses, Hats, Ribbons, Bows, Bonnets, Buttons & Shoes
19th & 20th Century Muffs - Purses
Victorian & Edwardian Husband & Wife Portraits
19th Century Children
Extensive Collection of 19th & Early 20th Century Wedding Dresses
Mid 20th Century Satin & Lace Wedding Dresses
Tea Length Wedding Dresses
Vintage Wedding Parties
Vintage Bridal Bouquets & Nosegays
Vintage Bridal Headpieces
Magic Lantern Slides
Vintage Boxing Ladies
Artists & Art Studios
Mutilated Photos – Faces Cut Out
Vintage Travel Trailers
Breastfeeding
Majorettes
Vintage Radio, Hi-Fi, Reel to Reel, Television, HAM and Vacuum Tube Photos & Ephemera
QSL Postcard Archive / QSL Risqué Postcards
Historical Audio Recordings
Acetate Records
Airchecks Radio Transcriptions
Phil Schaap Jazz Archive
Reel to Reel & Cassette Tapes
Ruth Wallis Archive
Living Letters Archive
Nesta Kerin Crain Archive
Radio Station Photos and Ephemera
Early Beachwear
Fredericks of Hollywood Archive
Sami Laplanders Archive
Women’s Hairstyles 1840 – 1980
Hair Curlers
Christmas – Santa Claus – Snowmen
Vintage New York City
Before Photoshop – Retouched Photos
Of Historical Interest
Macabre
Yawning
Vintage Eyeglasses
Vintage African Postcards
Vintage Middle East Postcards
Newsworthy
Vintage Press Photos
Politics
Nixon Archive
JFK Archive
The McCarthy Era
Vintage Football
Press Photographers – Press Cameras
Roadside Americana – Dinosaur Statues
Stereo Photography
Painted (Retouched) Press Photos
Gender Studies
Vintage Nudes
Upskirts
Vintage Pornography
Sexual Deviants
Early Bondage, BDSM Photos and Ephemera
Crossdressers
Homosexual Erotica
Early Transvestite - Female Impersonators - Mimic Publications
Vintage Explicit Personal Correspondence
8mm and 16mm Vintage Pornography 1920 – 1970
16mm Adult Film Trailers
Vintage Homosexual & Heterosexual Cartoon Photos
Vintage 16mm Kodachrome Home Movies 1938 – 1960
Historical 16mm Films 1920 – 1960
Vintage Train Films
Educational Films & School Daily Life
Circus Films
Underground Films
Art Films – ‘Art Student’ Figure Films
Silent Films / Silent Films with later added comic narration
Cine Arts Films
Small Gauge Reel and Film Can Archive
Film Rental Catalogs
Vintage 1970’s VHS Pornography Videotapes1970’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS
Vintage Erotic Cartoons
Early #800, #900 & ‘.com’ Sex Ads on VHS
Early Homosexual VHS Sex Ads
Japanese 1980’s VHS Pornography Videotapes
Japanese 1980’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS
Obscure VHS Videotapes
Political Comix
Vintage Medical Photos
Sleepers
RPPC’s Propaganda
Outcasts
Underground Social Documentary Photography
Vernacular Snapshot Aesthetics
Vintage Circus
Vintage Night Photography
Whimsical
Halloween
Blackface
Historical NAACP / Racial Prejudice
Picnics
Ghost Transfer Images
Black Panther - Black Power Publications
Belle Barth Archive
Switchboard Operators
Vintage Parades1940’s – 1960’s
Swimsuits & Sportswear
Vintage Umbrellas & Parasols
Weegee Archive
Vintage Rodeo
Currier & Ives Darktown Comics
Vintage Print Advertising
Stripper Groupies
See-through Negligée
Trocadero Theatre
Bettie Page Archive
Hand-Colored Photos
Maurice Seymour Archive
Irving Klaw Zine & Ephemera
Irving Klaw Negative Archive
Vintage Pinups
Eric Stanton Illustrations
Sexploitation
Vintage Birthday Parties
Donald Trump
Film Era Ephemera
Vintage Cine’ & Still Camera Ephemera
Leica Publications & Ephemera
Vintage High School & College Yearbooks
Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy Collection
Down Syndrome
Self Harm – Cutters
Postmortem Photographs
Early Computer, Video & Cell Phone Ephemera
Black Americana
Vintage Sheet Music
Artists’ Books
Vintage Comix – Comics
Original Comix Art & Ephemera
Neo-Nazi - White Power Publications
Mimeograph Machine Photos & Ephemera
Vintage Jazz Photos, Periodicals & Ephemera
Yodeling Dick Brooks Archive
Early Mountain, Country, Hillbilly, Western & Folk Music
WWVA Jamboree Archive
Square Dance Music, Call Sheets and Ephemera
Mimeo Revolution Press – Little Magazines –Independent Press Poetry
Counterculture & Underground Newspapers
Paladin Press Archive
Covid-19 - Coronavirus Audio Archive
Vintage Newspapers
Handbills
Malware / Ransomware / SPAM / Robocall Correspondence
Laserdiscs
Zines
It is sickening how much work gets destroyed on the internet. I had worked for 4 years setting up 48 Tumblr's. They deleted them in 2019 and everything lost. Flickr...same thing.
Selection from Bridal Bouquet series...
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