What was your first ever videogame? If we’re talking first played video games, these would be Atari 2600 games in the 1980s. Some of my favorites from that game console was Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Defender. Through the years I’ve owned a Playstation 1, and barely remember any of the games I had for it. I also owned a Nintendo Gamecube and Wii. My favorite games on those was Nascar 97 for the Gamecube, and Bowling for the Wii. Currently I own a Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch Lite, and my favorite game on those is Puzzle Quest. I also… Continue reading
Anna’s Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna, shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGen), among other sources. It calls itself “the largest truly open library in human history”, and has said it aims to “catalog all the books in existence” and “track humanity’s progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form”. It claims not to be liable for downloads of copyrighted works since it does not directly host any files, instead… Continue reading
