Tag: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Twitter's increasingly important role in relaying news and amplifying surreptitious international events apparently wasn't lost on the Library of Congress. Earlier this month, the organization formally announced a plan to digitally store every single tweet ever twittered. While some, perhaps many, folks scoffed at the move, a tweet archive could serve as an instrumental tool for future ...

If you're on Twitter, and you tweet publicly, you're about to be immortalized in history. That's because the Library of Congress today formally announced its plans to begin digitally archiving every single public tweet ever posted since March, 2006. The Library broke the celebratory news via, of course, its Twitter page, where it also promised that more details would be soon to follow. As ...

When video games first emerged from the primordial tech stew, the initial creators experimented with a variety of different codes, formats, and cartridges. Many of those styles and early evolutionary techniques have been rendered obsolete, though, and are now rapidly progressing toward complete irrelevance. The '70s and '80s witnessed the release of a huge assortment of quality games, but some ...

Man, the Library of Congress is really in love with old film clips and history and stuff. In the last two months, the Library of Congress has posted 41 vintage video clips on its YouTube channel, and more are surely on the way. One of the most viewed and discussed clips is a simple, 30-second offering from Edison's New Jersey Studio. Shot in 1891 onto 3/4-inch-wide film with the ...