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Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months ago

The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library

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The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library

www.crimrxiv.com

Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months ago
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Digital librarianship—the digitization, collection, and cataloguing of texts—was one of the earliest uses of networked computers. By most accounts, the first digital library was Project Gutenberg, which began making public domain works available in 1971 via the Arpanet, the ...
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    It’s obviously AI generated, but it’s not a library. It’s a coliseum. Very strange choice.

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      Probably a representation of the legend of the burning of the Library of Alexandria, when many ancient works were presumed lost forever.

      More images: https://www.qwant.com/?client=ext-firefox-sb&q=library+of+alexandria+burning&t=images&origin=suggest

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        Oh good catch!

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      It is a panopticon

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      Agreed. Honestly, it didn’t even really need a pic.

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