{"id":5041,"date":"2013-11-28T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T07:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2013-11-28T07:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T07:04:23","slug":"historical-software-collection-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5041","title":{"rendered":"Historical Software Collection: Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historicalsoftware\"><img src='http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The_Hobbit_v1.0_1982_Melbourne_House_screenshot.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Internet Archive has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historicalsoftware\">Historical Software Collection<\/a>. This is part of a larger <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/software\">Internet Archive Software Collection<\/a> that has a number of collections. What is cool is that they have an in-browser emulator that allows you to play with historical software like Visicalc or Atari&#8217;s E.T. in the browser. This is a Javascript version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mess.org\/\">MESS<\/a> called JSMESS. They are not just archiving the code, but ensuring that there are ways to try the software too.<\/p>\n<p>I learned about this from David Rosenthal&#8217;s blog entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dshr.org\/2013\/11\/in-browser-emulation.html\">In-Browser Emulation<\/a> which is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Archive has started a Historical Software Collection. This is part of a larger Internet Archive Software Collection that has a number of collections. What is cool is that they have an in-browser emulator that allows you to play with historical software like Visicalc or Atari&#8217;s E.T. in the browser. This is a Javascript &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historical Software Collection: Internet Archive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-humanities-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}