dip.quick

Readme.txt

Readme

Forty million files sit in the Internet Archive and almost nobody opens them. We open them and cut the found footage, ads and books inside into something you can't scroll past.

What we find

  1. I.Government films with insane advice.“Even a newspaper can save you from a bad burn.” Duck and Cover, 1951, at 07:58.
  2. II.Ads that should have been illegal.A vest with four hundred magnets that cures everything, apparently.
  3. III.Science that went wrong and futures that never came.
  4. IV.Aliens in coffee shops.As told by two sisters from St. Louis, in 1959.

Rules that never bend

  1. I.Public domain only.Every file's rights are checked before it is used. Anything unclear is left alone.
  2. II.Clickbait packaging, true contents.The hook can tease, exaggerate the tone and hold back the payoff. It never says something false.
  3. III.Every quote is verbatim.Each one carries its timestamp or its page, so you can check it in the original.
  4. IV.Credits in every caption.Title, year, maker, "public domain via archive.org" and the link to the file.
where_to_find_us.txt

New reels and carousels go up on Instagram first: @dip.quick.

Every one of them is kept here, in the index, with its source, its date and the archive.org file it came from.

Spotted a wrong date, name or quote? Say so in the guestbook.