9 comments

  • Ylano 59 minutes ago
    There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs
  • drewbeck 9 hours ago
    Tippett Studios or Phil’s name should probably be in the title here to give this the audience it deserves. He’s a legend and many many nerds will know his name.
  • Barbing 4 hours ago
    Anonymous hero rescues 90GB of content from CD binder spotted at auction. Beautiful.
  • soltanov 2 hours ago
    Hosting 90GB on Internet Archive is step one. Mirroring the torrents is step two, before copyright lawyers notice the auction bypass. Seed it while it exists.
  • justnoice 6 hours ago
    Huge thanks to him. It’s a real shame that so much material in this world, for one reason or another, will never see the light of day.
  • hizlikovboy27 1 hour ago
    this is great to see. Losing all that material to private collections would have been a shame. thanks to everyone who helped preserve and share it.
  • stavros 8 hours ago
    This has Textfiles vibes.

    EDIT: Yep: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom?search=tippet

  • vincengomes 7 hours ago
    Direct Link to the digital archive at Internet Archive -

    https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/

    • dang 3 hours ago
      Thanks! Added to toptext above.
  • stevage 3 hours ago
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    • bcraven 3 hours ago
      I think the context makes it clear. But, equally, you can argue that the CD format was physically locking the files to that binder, but now the data is digitised it is more easily accessed and shared.
      • stevage 2 hours ago
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        • birdsongs 1 hour ago
          It's incredibly obvious they meant "to put it online", even if the content was already digital on the CDs. This kind of pedanticism is extremely tiring and antisocial. Grow up.