If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the ...

The archive helps make millions of newspaper, court, and government records publicly available to researchers. Now you can ...

While the concept might seem quaint to us today, microfiche was once a very compelling way to store and distribute documents. By optically shrinking them down to just a few percent of their ...

A microfiche is a sheet or card of microfilm — the same stuff used to make Kodak Carousel slides — that has display text at the top, allowing you to know what you are looking at. To view the ...

Microfiche were used for decades by businesses to save documents in a readable form while reducing storage space. The format does have a limited lifespan however, and copying of the materials is ...

Walk in, sit down and pop a microfiche card into a machine. The cards identify companies producing or using toxic chemicals, the types of chemicals involved, the way chemicals are discharged into ...

“Operators feed microfiche cards beneath a high-resolution camera, which captures multiple detailed images of each sheet. Software stitches these images together, after which other team members ...