Microfiche were used for decades by businesses to save documents in a readable form while reducing storage space. The format does have a limited lifespan however, and copying of the materials is ...

Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t possible. Yet companies still ...

While the concept might seem quaint to us today, microfiche was once a very compelling way to store and distribute documents. By optically shrinking them down to just a few percent of their original ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For college students researching today, finding the area or section in a long paper or article that is ...

The feed offers a close-up look of how microfiche — the sheets of films that store multiple documents — are digitized and uploaded to the Archive. The feed offers a close-up look of how microfiche — ...

Want to watch history being preserved in real time? The Internet Archive, the digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts, has started livestreaming on YouTube from its scanning ...