CAMS 302: Media Archaeology

This wiki for a media archaeology course in the NYU Department of Media, Culture, & Communication focuses on "historical research into forgotten, obsolete, neglected or otherwise dead media technologies." Articles (Dossiers) cover a wide range of media artifacts. Last updated in 2010, so there are some broken links.

Includes early Edison productions, turn-of-the-century views of New York, the origins of American animation, variety stage sound and film recordings, Emil Berliner and the birth of the recording industry, and more.

Although the site is no longer being updated, it is a rich source of information and resources on Victorian cinema ("defined as filmmaking in its broadest sense from the first glimmerings in the 1870s to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901." --from the About page)

An extensive set of annotated links to sites devoted to media culture, systems and tools.

"The MAL is propelled equally by the need to preserve and maintain access to historically important media of all kinds—from magic lanterns, projectors, and typewriters, to early personal computers from the 1970s through the 1990s; as well as early works of digital literature/art which were originally created on the hardware and software housed in the MAL." At the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Digitized collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. Includes fan magazines and industry publications

An extensive list of resources from this wiki for the arts, media and humanities.

"First Sounds strives to make humanity's earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time."

Includes digitized cylinder phonograph recordings.

An extensive unannotated list of links.

A web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package.

Home console games emulated in JSMESS.

From the Internet Archive