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• The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Featured on CBS Sunday Morning

  23-06-2024 18:35
  From CBS News:
  The Wayback Machine has been making backups of the world wide web since 1996. Mark Graham, its director, describes it as “a time machine for the web. It does that by going and looking at webpages, hundreds of millions of them every single day right now, and stores them in our servers.”
  To date there are nearly 900 billion web pages backed up, though computer scientist Brewster Kahle thinks it’s a cruel joke to call them “pages” considering their short
  
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• Washington Post: “The Best Audiobook Narrators are True Artists. Let’s Celebrate Them”

  23-06-2024 18:19
  From The Washington Post:
   It is wonderful to see voice actors, who are often snubbed at the Grammys in favor of celebrities, recognized for their work. As audiobooks have evolved, narrating them has demanded more and more creativity and skill. Transforming the pages of a book into a listening experience goes beyond simply reading aloud, and some people are better at it than others.
  Audiobooks began their reign in 1975, the brainchild of former Olympic champion rower Duvall Hecht, founder o
  
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