Nostr notes by Allan Christophersen

Here's a very rare treat for #DigiPres - I came across the ...

2026-08-24T02:05:04Z

Here's a very rare treat for #DigiPres - I came across the first CD-ROM cover disc of the Scandinavian computing magazine Komputer for alle...
And it turns out it's an attempt to allow people without internet in 1997 to experience what the Internet is like... By fully downloading about a hundred different sites, including every subpage and hosted file! It's a little 1997 web archive!
Here's a link to check it out for yourself: https://archive.org/details/kcd-1997-05

In a different sense of "publicly owned" there's ...

2025-02-20T22:01:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…qy3p
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In a different sense of "publicly owned" there's https://games-archive.org/en which I believe runs on top of https://ogdb.eu/, which is probably the closest thing in current size of dataset to Moby, not counting Amazon owned IGDB, and it's run by German digital preservation institutions... It's just also all in German. Extremely cool project though.

Oh there are SO many competing game databases. I think my ...

2025-02-20T21:37:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…ndg0
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Oh there are SO many competing game databases. I think my personal favourite is uvlist.net, but it's in dire need of some love.
I actually created a small data track some years ago for another project, where I mapped out various games across the different sites:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i0NixurbXCb5kfmpcMIalO-4fvhWckHr4rhqT0X6iio/edit?gid=0#gid=0