r/internetarchive

hey,

i'm b0zy, computer engineer, online since 1998. dial-up at home, 14.4k modem then 33.6k then the magical 56k. ttnet billed by the minute back then so i remember planning every download.

last week i made https://rip.so - a memorial site for the dead corners of the internet. each grave is a 800-1200 word obit for something i either used (icq, msn, mp3.com, kazaa) or remember from the era (geocities, friendster, sodaplay). 100+ entries plus a small companion list called "things that survived against odds" (vlc, irc, wikipedia, slashdot).

the writing is in my own voice. when i never used something i say so directly: "i never used path. it was a US-focused product, by 2010 the social network audience in turkey had settled on facebook." honesty about distance matters more than pretending to know things i did not.

it went viral on hacker news on 29 april (~30k pageviews in a day). the early version shipped with AI-generated placeholder content that i rewrote by hand after HN ripped it apart. that critique was the right call. the rewrite was the part that made it real.

other small things:

- you can leave a rose on any grave (anonymous ASCII tribute, IRC-color)
- atom feed of recent burials
- weekly digest newsletter (opt-in)
- suggestion box if you remember something missing

a few things people brought back via the suggestion box that surprised me:

- sodaplay (the flash physics toy with the spring creatures)
- nabaztag (the french wifi rabbit)
- swatch beat-time (the 1998 attempt to replace timezones with ubeats)
- the palace (the 1995 graphical chat)
- origami flowers (a niche android flower-growing MMO that died in 2017)

comments and rose tributes welcome.

https://rip.so

I mean how will we be able to learn about our history over the past 5-25 years now?

i have a tumblr account but when i log in, nothing shows up

I'm not using any special browser or VPN DNS settings, no proxies, I'm just underneath standard ProtonVPN. The connection is fine and, contrary to what the page says, doesn't reset nor drop. This only happens for archive.org and no other mobile website.

Ok, so, this comes from this Vinyl record -- it's literally the only version that exists of the "Credo" portion of this mass. The other portions are available elsewhere, but what that really means is for authenticity sake and the complete mass, you really need this record (if you want this mass.)

https://archive.org/details/lp_missa-quarti-toni-6-motets_toms-luis-de-victoria-the-philippe-caillar

As you can hear and read by the review, this was uploaded in the wrong speed. Through research and math, I determined there were two possible answers:

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1.) Simply changing the given file's speed to 33 1/3 RPM -- the problem? The track times are all significantly off (10 seconds or more/less.) It also, to me, sounds a little 'fast.' Samples:

Credo (at 33 1/3 RPM) https://vocaroo.com/11gTTWPnlPoJ

Gloria (at 33 1/3 RPM) https://vocaroo.com/18gxcl5KTGbc

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2.) Mathematically calculating the correct speed based on the listed track times. To me, this result got what felt like the 'correct' speed -- just about a percent and a half slower than the above (not exactly that, but just making it simple for the post.) I'm almost worried it might be too slow, but overall it sounds 'right.' But what do I know? Samples:

Credo (at the listed track length) https://vocaroo.com/1j6XAwoMSwjH

Gloria (at the listed track length) https://vocaroo.com/1lKt6RlEo8ID

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While it is possible for equipment and recording flaws to accidentally not quite rip a record at 45RPM and accidentally bump it up or down a percentile or two, it's also not common.

So above are 2 samples from each record -- if you could tell me what you think actually sounds closest to whatever you can imagine was the intention. More details on the album are on the archive.org page.