RIP "finger": the Unix command "finger" shows if a user is logged in, or else displays their "plan" file, with contact info. It used to be connected to the web, but that turns out to be dangerous.

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is offering guests a unique experience: the chance to recollect memories they may have long forgotten. In the library’s do-it-yourself digitization lab, dubbed the ...

Late last week, The Hollywood Reporter ran a story about an “AI Stan Lee hologram” that would be appearing at the LA Comic Con this weekend. Nearly seven years after the famous Marvel Comics creator’s ...

One of the nation’s oldest and most significant archives of Black history, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has collected and cared for millions of historical documents and artifacts over ...

This lovely museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin is located just minutes from the former sites of AMC’s two largest factories. When we visited in 2017 to record our first round of interviews with former ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Everyone has that old box of photos or VHS tapes sitting in their closet collecting dust. At the University of Arizona's Wildcats Memory Lab, you can digitize them, and when you ...

HBO had a series of legendary stand-up specials in the 1990s, and one of the best of those came from a performer who was not a comedian. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants was incredibly funny, but Jay ...

Indigenous communities possess valuable audio and video recordings that document the culture, language, administration and governance processes that are vital to each community. Community recordings ...

Paul de Jong makes collaged songs out of obscurities he collects in his Mall of Found: a library of low-budget, homespun and dated pieces of spoken-word media. Paul de Jong at his Massachusetts studio ...

This spring, Nakazono began digitizing around 400 video tapes taken from 1995 onward in an attempt to preserve traditions. “The kakure kirishitan faith may die out one day. I have to record its ...

TEDDY CO, a 64-year-old film curator, cinephile and advocate of archiving and regional cinema, helped shape Philippine film history. Many Filipino archivists turned to him for information on lost ...