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The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online

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Re: The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online

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Post by RIMR »

lioeters wrote: post #2

Related article: The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online - https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-i... --- I wonder if there's a torrent download of the entire archive.. Looks like this is pretty close: The Internet Archive's Whole Earth collection (98.5 GB) - https://archive.org/details/wholeearth

There are 82 items in the collection, you could do a little scraping and run all the downloads through uGet or similar download manager.

Plus, each item has an auto-generated torrent. They aren't very fast generally, but you could theoretically seed the directly downloaded files if you were interested in helping distribute this.

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Post by op00to »

bane wrote: post #10

I never grew up knowing the Whole Earth Catalog, but in the early '80s I was a precocious elementary school student who practically lived in any library I could get access to. My school library happened to have a copy of a particularly magical book that was loosely patterned after the WEC, the "Kids' Whole Future Catalog". https://paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/27/the-kids-whole-future... I obsessively checked it out of…

I kept taking the Whole Mirth Catalog out of the library as a kid.

It’s on the Internet Archive! :D

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Post by nanna »

About time! For years I would try to visit the Whole Earth website and be met with a barrage of PHP errors. How could a magazine which was so formative for the likes of Steve Jobs be so broke that they couldn't put their archive online properly? Still don't get what happened but happy to see someone's sorted this out.

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Post by cc101 »

During 1968 through 1972 I lived a block and a half from Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Truck store, across the street from Kepler's Bookstore, and around the corner from the Mid Peninsula Free University. There hasn't been a time like that since, and I didn't know what I had until it was gone.

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Post by pbj1968 »

bane wrote: post #10

I never grew up knowing the Whole Earth Catalog, but in the early '80s I was a precocious elementary school student who practically lived in any library I could get access to. My school library happened to have a copy of a particularly magical book that was loosely patterned after the WEC, the "Kids' Whole Future Catalog". https://paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/27/the-kids-whole-future... I obsessively checked it out of…

Please do. Haven’t thought about this book in decades. Wow.

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Post by vertis »

bane wrote: post #10

I never grew up knowing the Whole Earth Catalog, but in the early '80s I was a precocious elementary school student who practically lived in any library I could get access to. My school library happened to have a copy of a particularly magical book that was loosely patterned after the WEC, the "Kids' Whole Future Catalog". https://paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/27/the-kids-whole-future... I obsessively checked it out of…

I'd love to see it. I had a set of similar books I would pore through as a child like 'Future Cities'[1]. I think it might have been part of a series as well. There was also this big thick book from Readers Digest that had all kinds of things you could build Model boats and Planes (among other things). It's not the 'Crafts and Hobbies' one that's on the internet archive, but it was similar.

[1]: https://2warpstoneptune.com/2014/03/04/usborne-publishing-th...

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Post by fuzztester »

cc101 wrote: post #16

During 1968 through 1972 I lived a block and a half from Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Truck store, across the street from Kepler's Bookstore, and around the corner from the Mid Peninsula Free University. There hasn't been a time like that since, and I didn't know what I had until it was gone.

Why didn't you know? Too young?
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