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End of October 2024 update

Hello, little blog, it's been a while! The past two weeks have been uncharacteristically busy for me so, huh, I didn't write much here, oops!

I spent a week of vacation in Reno for definitely normal reasons. Turns out, being mostly offline with your friends and other freaks (complimentary) for a whole week is good??? Someone should look into this.

Then, as soon as I came back, my friend Joanna was in town to visit the Internet Archive, so I tagged along. I saw a bunch of very cool shit. Like, look at all this stuff!! Tell me this isn't cool as hell!! Excuse the shoddy photography job lmao.

three, multiple meters-all servers, all belonging to the Internet Archive
Servers!! A few of the many (I was told) servers that the Internet Archive HQ in San Francisco houses
A red-colored, older looking, computer server. The first 'one petabyte box'.
A Petabox!! I didn't know the Internet Archive had one of these so early (2004!) but it makes sense that they would, after all.
A 16mm film scanner. It's almost a meter tall and has one big reel on each of its sides
A 16mm film scanner! It was super impressive to see move in person, especially considering how "tiny" 16mm film is in comparison.

I had other pictures, but they were all of Just Old Stuff. This is also just Old Stuff, but at least it's Devices! I'm never beating the nerd allegations.

Overall, meeting so many people and seeing so much stuff in the span of three nights was overwhelming but also great. The Internet Archive rules, man.

Finally, literally last night, I met with Nicky to give cohost 2 back to them. We then hung out at the Musée Mécanique. Given the "touristy" status of the place, I feel like I should have heard about it a long time ago, but it was my first time there, and it was super neat! Digital stuff is cool, but there's something just neat about seeing mechanical…Read more

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