{"id":1011,"date":"2013-11-26T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T14:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2013-11-26T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:25:18","slug":"internet-archives-historical-software-collection-is-the-best-thing-thats-ever-happened-to-software-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1011\/internet-archives-historical-software-collection-is-the-best-thing-thats-ever-happened-to-software-preservation","title":{"rendered":"Internet Archive&#8217;s Historical Software Collection is the Best Thing That Has Ever Happened to Software Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historicalsoftware\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/historical_software_small.jpg' alt='Internet Archive Historical Software Collection' class=\"centered shadow\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three cheers for <a href=\"http:\/\/ascii.textfiles.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Scott<\/a> and his push to create a JavaScript-based port of the MESS emulator platform.  The result, the Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historicalsoftware\" target=\"_blank\">Historical Software Collection<\/a>, is nothing short of brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>The collection puts dozens of vintage computer games and applications at your fingertips by allowing you to run them, emulated, from a browser window.  It&#8217;s a huge step forward for preserving the heritage of our software culture.  Here, ease-of-access is key.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been horribly remiss by not mentioning this earlier &#8212; but better late than never for something this important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for Jason Scott and his push to create a JavaScript-based port of the MESS emulator platform. The result, the Internet Archive&#8217;s Historical Software Collection, is nothing short of brilliant. The collection puts dozens of vintage computer games and applications at your fingertips by allowing you to run them, emulated, from a browser window. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,3,11,13,35,21,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-emulation","category-video-game-emulation","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}