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Scanned film and broadcasting trade magazines going back to 1904, searchable in full text. The industry writing about itself, live.
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Media History Digital Library sits in Lost Media under Retro, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Lost media wikis, obsolete format museums and archives of things that were never meant to outlive their broadcast.
Yes. Media History Digital Library is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Media History Digital Library without signing up for anything.
Yes. Media History Digital Library works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
The Internet Archive's full film and video collection — public domain features, home movies, government reels and stranger things.
Every format anybody ever stored anything on, documented with photographs and the dates it lived between. Far more than you expect.
Radio drama, comedy and serials from before television took over, in quantities that would take several lifetimes to finish.
Thousands of American industrial, educational and advertising films, all public domain and all quietly extraordinary.
Old School RuneScape's skill grind distilled into a pure idle game, with a free browser version that genuinely never ends.
The Star Trek wiki, maintained with the rigour of a national archive and roughly the same word count.
Hundreds of matching-pair memory games plus Simon-style sequences, scaled from toddler difficulty to genuinely unpleasant.
The one free IQ test people actually cite: thirty-five matrix puzzles, twenty-five minutes, no email address demanded at the end.
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