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The Infamous KDOC New Year's Special (And how to view deleted YouTubes on the Wayback Machine)

In 2012-2013 Jamie Kennedy hosted a godawful New Year's Eve special on KDOC in Los Angeles. There was no tape delay, the special guests were all drunk at best, the host was attempting to make topical jokes that all aged immediately before he said them, and it's basically a car crash. Kennedy tried the next day to claim it was INTENTIONALLY bad but I don't think anyone believed him.

Anyway, it lives in Youtube Content Strike purgatory except for a very carefully edited 6 minute montage. But the almost-full broadcast was captured by the Wayback Machine in January 2013.

But how do you watch it, since 2013 YouTube still used Flash? Well, there's a way to pull a captured YouTube video file straight out of the Wayback Machine: Visit (or right click -> Download):

https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/esQkNaNZdNQ

Changing everything after yt/ to the Youtube video ID that you want will pull whatever the most recent version of that video was recorded in the Wayback Machine. You don't have control over what format you get, but a video you have to watch in VLC is better than a deleted video.

If you start it at 11:18 it should line up with midnight. But fortunately everyone on the show had different clocks so as long as you're in that 60 second window someone will probably get it right.

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In 2004 an anonymous fan made half hour reels of all the known intros to all known super robot and mecha anime that was known to exist. In 2010 they were copyright struck from YouTube.

All four reels are now back.

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Wake up babe the new liminal spaces just dropped

My late uncle Ted Kopulos worked at apple in the 1990s. As he was a theater guy, he and his buddy made a bunch of corny home movies about facilities projects they worked on. Thirty years later, the shifting aesthetics of the world have changed the tone of the visuals.

Sources https://archive.org/details/the-apple-western-regional-datacenter-VHS

https://archive.org/details/ATourofNapaIIVHS

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Watched a video where someone found a recording of local radio coverage of the Moon landing and it's so weird listening bc

now you only really see the moment of and don't realize it was an hours long protracted event with plenty of dead time to fill. At one point they just start listing off famous ships to waste time when nothing was happening

there were ads? They had to incorporate ad breaks? Not only that but actual, moon landing themed ads that segue in from the coverage. Hearing an ad that starts "the world is watching three men traveling on a mission - but every day, America's truckers travel the roads on a mission - feeding a nation..." in the exact tone of those modern commercials that are like "this SUPER BOWL, let's honor real heroes, our FIRST RESPONDERS"

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【Vampire Survivors】から、「パスカリーナ」のファンアートです。

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Depending on who you ask, SonMay was the hero or scourge of all anime con dealer rooms in the 90s.

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John Z. DeLorean's FBI File. That is all.

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Having ascended from joke genre to real genre, Vaporwave has now sprouted the subgenre "conetwave," which is fake recordings of fictional numbers and foreign utility stations from old cassettes of ham radio operators. Or not. Impossible to tell, now.

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Numbers stations are still going strong for all your creepy late night listening needs.

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An early podcast (1998) about Ultima Online was thought lost forever, until a redditor found a CD-R in a shoebox with every episode burned on it. Story here: https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110157842733538332

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Big Media’s lobbyists have been running a smear campaign trying to paint the Internet Archive as a greedy big tech operation bent on stealing books—which is totally absurd. If you’ve ever used the WayBack Machine, listened to their wonderful archives of live music, or checked out one of their 37 million texts, it’s time to speak up. On March 20, everyone is showing their support for the Internet Archive during oral arguments.

Here's how you can help:

The Internet Archive is our library, a massive collection of knowledge and culture accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Don't let greedy publishers burn down the next Library of Alexandria!

And if you're absolutely certain you don't use or need the Internet Archive, take a look at their projects first, you might be surprised. Those are all at risk too.

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Fixing Tumblr Live

Saying Tumblr Live wasn't well received is an understatement. I kinda get it but I think folks just need a new perspective. We can use Live anyway we want, we can make it weird.

For me, the best part of tumblr is that we all have weird little passions that we can share with each other. Live is just an extension of that. Instead of posting something and waiting for the likes or reblogs to roll in I can just find something weird and we can watch it together. That sounds like a lot of fun to me.

Like today I was browsing the internet archive and I found this amazing instructional VHS tape. It dated and cringe and I love it so much. So instead of just sitting and watching it in my basement by myself I decided to watch it with 14 random strangers. I'll be putting together a tutorial later if anyone else wants to do this.

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The original D&D sessions that were adapted into the anime “Record of Lodoss War” have been translated into English and uploaded to the Internet Archive.

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The DNA Lounge Live Collection will get you through any workday with 4-5 hour long soundboard recordings of live DJs at the legendary DNA Lounge in San Francisco.

They also have video archives of the webcam streams, so you can peek in on such oddities as their Squishmallow themed rave:

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The Internet Archive has a quarter of a million concert recordings in the Live Music Archive (nee etree.org). All of it is from trade-friendly artists who have opted in, so you can enjoy your bootleg taped recordings ethically!

If you don’t know where to start, this blog author is a fan of Particle!

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The AV Geeks Film Archive, curated by Skip Elsheimer, is a rich vein of 60s, 70s, and early 80s education films and ephemera. My latest obsession from this pile is this TV station sign off film full of Air Force ROTC propaganda set to a corny synthesizer cover of the national anthem... followed by Mama Cass Elliot.

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