New York Times launches TimesMachine (for viewing old newspapers)

Posted Feb 25th 2008 10:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services

The New York Times has launched a nifty browser for reading old newspapers. Like really old. The company has scanned copies of every issue from 1851 through the end of 1922 and put the results online as a series of PDF files. That means you can read stories about the Civil War, World War I, and the sinking of the titanic just as they originally appeared a hundred years ago. Except, you know, on a computer screen and not newsprint.

Boing Boing reports there's also a publicly available API, which means you can create your own browser or other application that will pull together old newspaper issues.

Tags: new-york-times, newspaper, timesmachine

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2-25-2008 @ 12:20PM

TheTaylorEffect said...

What an excellent name for a cool application.

2-25-2008 @ 6:05PM

dw17 said...

I have been unable to get in and take a look. Is it the DLS effect?

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