I played around at “internet archive” http://www.archive.org/index.php Which houses various uploaded texts and media files. There is also a feature named after Dr. Peebody’s invention, The Way Back Machine, this tool provides the history of web pages added to sites according to year and date, all you have to enter is the web sites URL, I did Cortland.edu and saw how our site grew, as well as BCC’s.
The there is a lot of uploading here, I was shocked to find a “Grateful Dead” heading under the Types of Audio files. There is an archive of live shows…a lot of Dead shows, some of which can be downloaded while others are simply streaming, while also a message board where fans could post. Digital flower power…groovy
I was very surprised that the site had 29 classroom lectures and readings by William S. Burroughs, of whom I am a big fan. There were in class discussions about creative writing and creative reading (not to familiar with that), but I am going to listen after posting.
Searching media through Archive is somewhat troublesome, because all searchs are opened to broader criteria than what you enter, try it and see for your self. But, I see how this could be a useful tool, for dating internet sources (as Warlick suggested) and for searching for information or a topic that you wanted to get all possible information for.
The site also includes searchable Text, audio book/poetry, moving images (as they call them), and open courseware.
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