The Unofficial Apple Archive is on a mission to save Apple history and inspire new creators

guest · Jan 15, 2020

The Unofficial Apple Archive is on a mission to save Apple history and inspire new creators
January 15, 2020
https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/15/the-unofficial-apple-archive-history-videos/

Sam Henri Gold was giving me a progress update on what would eventually become The Apple Archive. He had just made it to 2011. Compiled from hundreds of videos and images spanning Apple’s near 44-year history, the collection is believed to be one of the largest of its kind ever made available. It launches today.
Sam hopes the collection he’s compiled will inspire the next generation of designers, developers, and Apple fans by preserving the company’s legacy of creativity.

Now that The Apple Archive has a permanent home, complete with appropriately-styled title cards for each year in Apple’s timeline, Sam is undertaking several projects to expand and streamline the collection. Videos are being transcoded to save space and subtitles added for accessibility where Apple has already created .vtt files.
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The full collection spans over 15,000 files and just under 1TB of data. PDFs, print ads, WWDC sessions, obscure clips from the ‘80s, and an unabridged collection of macOS and iOS wallpapers are among the additions still on the way. New content will be announced on Twitter.
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The (Unofficial) Apple Archive

Dedicated to the unsung studio designers, copywriters, producers, ADs, CDs, and everyone else who creates wonderful things.

Dedicated to those who stayed up late and got up early to get on the family iMac to recreate event slides in Keynote.
Thank you.
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guest · Jan 27, 2020

Apple appears to have filed hundreds of DMCA takedown notices
January 26, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/26/21082832/apple-archive-dmca-takedown-sam-gold

I hope you got your fill of the unofficial Apple Archive last week [...] — late Friday, curator Sam Henri Gold received a veritable deluge of DMCA takedown notices originating from Apple’s lawyers, letting him know the vast majority of the videos he’d uploaded to Vimeo had been removed from the internet.

“Do you know what it’s like getting 700 email notifications on your wrist in like 2 minutes? Your wrist sorta goes numb from the vibrations,” Gold tells The Verge.
Cool pic.twitter.com/rfk26GrxRU
— Sam Henri Gold (@samhenrigold) January 25, 2020
Gold tweeted that there were still 264 videos remaining as of January 25th, and you can still find lots of vintage Apple print ads at his website as well.

The takedowns shouldn’t really surprise anyone, since 1) these videos do presumably all belong to Apple, not Gold, 2) companies generally have a duty to protect their intellectual property, and 3) because Gold and Apple have seemingly been playing a game of whack-a-mole for a while now.
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