Internet Archives

There are good and bad points about Internet Archives.

Good

1. Someone is digitizing a lot of old and ancient printed, painted or litho text or material.
2. People do not have to buy and own old and ancient materials in order to study or research them.
3. Many people can have free access to old and ancient documents.
4. These digitized documents are often large but complete.
5. There are many formats to view these documents.
6. Some digitized documents can be downloaded freely and easily.

Bad

1. Some digitized documents cannot be downloaded at all.
2. Inability to download when Internet access speed is good creates pressure and unhappiness as the researcher needs to return and try and view the document again.
3. Any difficulty faced when trying to access digital documents will render the effort useless or less amicable.
4. Some important documents may be missed in some research or search.
5. Since files are reasonably big, downloading on slow Internet will yield a failed attempt. I quit after a third attempt.
6. The search function has to be improved.

External links

https://archive.org/

https://archive.org/details/Directorychronicle1889