[tosser0001]

This is great. Historical newspapers are one of the largest corpora of information that has yet to be adequately brought on line.

In the U.S. the Library of Congress has digitized a fair number, but at the state and local level it's really hit or miss. Some states such as California and New York have put quite a bit on line, but many others rely on individual towns and historical societies.

Different pay services cover various papers, but there has never been concerted effort to digitize the staggering amount of microfilm that is out there.

[jf]

> Historical newspapers are one of the largest corpora of information that has yet to be adequately brought on line.

Not just information, but works of art as well!

A few years ago, I trained an image classifier to help me find Krazy Kat comics in newspaper archives. In the process of doing that, I came across a shocking amount of other comics and artwork. I was honestly surprised to see how many amazing illustrations and comics are just sitting in newspaper archives, waiting to be rediscovered.

[goto11]

Fascinating. Fantagraphics (https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/newspaper-comics) have done great work restoring and publishing such classics, but there might be much more to discover.

[reaperducer]

I wonder what ever happened to all the newspapers that were fed into services like CompuServe in the 80's.

I dated a newspaper reporter during that era, and all of her stuff went into the online services. But her newspaper's current online archive only goes back to about 2005, even for subscribers.