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Every format anybody ever stored anything on, documented with photographs and the dates it lived between. Far more than you expect.
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Museum of Obsolete Media 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. Museum of Obsolete Media is free to use and needs no account.
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Yes. Museum of Obsolete Media 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.
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.
A catalogue of films, broadcasts and recordings that are known to have existed and cannot now be found. Some entries get solved.
Searchable captions across millions of hours of broadcast news, which makes it possible to find the exact moment something was said.
An exhaustive archive of worlds built in a 1991 ASCII game creator, catalogued with more care than most national collections.
The open music encyclopedia much of the industry quietly relies on, editable by anybody and free of any label's marketing department.
Long beatless mixes chosen for the state of mind where code actually goes in, delivered as plain numbered episodes.
Hundreds of calibrated soundscapes with ten-slider equalisers, built by an audio engineer who takes tinnitus relief seriously.
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