The Plan
This is a preliminary version of an archive to hold hundreds of thousands of advertisements, with metadata from the first thirty years of personal computing.
Sources
All scans are permanently held at the Internet Archive; the advertising archive is a repository for metadata that describes individual ads.
We only ingest advertisements from magazines that have scanned by archive.org.
Help from people and machines
No crowdsourcing effort will be able to segment out the immense number of ads in the Internet Archive. Instead, we plan to bootstrap our way towards text and image classifiers using crowdsourced classifications.
If you want to help, you can:
- Participate in one of our crowdsourcing tasks: currently, by helping find ads.
- Contribute new scans to the Internet Archive or improve the date metadata for computer magazines there.