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HISTORY IS OUR FUTURE And we've been trashing our history Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it's lost forever. Along the way, we've gotten attention, resistance, press and discussion, but most importantly, we've gotten the message out: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction. Currently Active Projects (Get Involved Here!) Archive Team recruiting Want to code for Archive Team? Here's a starting point. Help us: ☞ Download and run your warrior ☜. What's on: online tracker. Warrior based projects Tumblr: Yahoo! considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired and Verizon declared war on NSFW blogs. IRC Channel #tumbledown. UOL Forums: The "Brazilian AOL" UOL will nuke their big forums on 7 January 2019. IRC Channel #archiveteam. NewsGrabber: Saving all news articles. Help with server power or by finding more newssites. IRC Channel #newsgrabber. URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam. WikiTeam: Saving wikis dumps (XML). And their external links for the Wayback Machine (WARC) as well as xporting Mediawiki databases. Permanent effort, everyone can help (you choose the size of your downloads). IRC Channel #wikiteam. Scripts only FTP: Download all the FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee. Manual projects ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot. FTP: Help us find all FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee. INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK: Grab a slice of the big cake of The Archive! IRC Channel #internetarchive.bak. ISP Hosting: Finding ISP web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them. IRC Channel #webroasting. Project Newsletter: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development. IRC Channel #projectnewsletter. GeoCities Japan: It's GeoCities all over again... The Japanese version shuts down in March 2019. IRC Channel #notagain. Active Projects Not Yet Ingesting Flickr: Yahoo! SmugMug decided to kill it after finding Yahoo!'s plans to do so before they were bought by Verizon. IRC Channel #flickrfckr. Textream: Yahoo! Japan killing yet another platform... Large Japanese discussion forum going down in early January 2019 (?). IRC Channel #textreamer. UOL Blogs and UOL Fotoblogs: UOL is shutting down their blogging platforms end of January 2019. IRC Channel TBD. Proposed projects Google+: Google finally realised they failed. Shutting down by April 2019. IRC Channel #googleminus. Imgur: Image hoster decided that using it for hosting images is not permitted. IRC Channel #imgone. JamiiForums: the Tanzanian government would like this gone. IRC Channel #jammedforums. ZAM Network: Setting several sites on fire in autumn 2018. GitHub: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. IRC Channel #getgit. LiveJournal: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. IRC Channel #recordedjournal. Ownlog: Ownlog is losing popularity and support from its owners. IRC Channel #pwnlog. The Pirate Bay: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. IRC Channel #yarharfiddlededee. Angelfire: Angelfire is a web hosting service that contains big chunks of early WWW history and has no proper backup. IRC Channel #angelonfire. Valhalla: Where to store what even the Internet Archive doesn't have space for? Recently finished Mozilla Addons (aka addons.mozilla.org, AMO): deleting legacy addons in October 2018. IRC Channel #outofammo. Tindeck: Creative Commons audio hosting site going silent on 2018-08-01. IRC Channel #findeck. Hiatus / Missed the Mark AccuWeather Forums: discussion forum for meteorologists shut down end of 2018. IRC Channel #accio-weather. Google News Archive: Let's store all newspapers at Google, WCGW? IRC Channel #papersplease. Quizlet: Flashcards and other learning tools IRC Channel #quizletusin. yuku: Lately yuku is very unstable and hosting thousands of forums. Project currently paused. IRC Channel #archiveteam. Audit 2014: It's time to verify our shit. IRC Channel #auditteam. THIS PROJECT IS ON HIATUS AND WILL BE RETURNED TO AS A AUDIT2018. Google Groups: "Gone within a year" (SketchCow, 2016-06-07). The Escapist: Staff activity dwindling due to layoffs, remaining supporters are doing it for free. IRC Channel TBD. YTMND: Supposed to be "shutting down soon" in 2016, but still up 2 years later. IRC Channel TBD. DevPort: This portfolio SaaS provider has reportedly been having infrastructure issues, and removed their social media accounts. Possible impending shutdown. ArchiveTeam uses the EFnet IRC network – irc://irc.efnet.org – webchat: http://chat.efnet.org:9090 – More info

What is What Who We Are and how you can join our cause! Deathwatch is where we keep track of sites that are sickly, dying or dead. Fire Drill is where we keep track of sites that seem fine but a lot depends on them. Projects is a comprehensive list of AT endeavors. Philosophy describes the ideas underpinning our work. Some Starting Points The Introduction is an overview of basic archiving methods. Why Back Up? Because they don't care about you. Back Up your Facebook Data Learn how to liberate your personal data from Facebook. Software will assist you in regaining control of your data by providing tools for information backup, archiving and distribution. Formats will familiarise you with the various data formats, and how to ensure your files will be readable in the future. Storage Media is about where to get it, what to get, and how to use it. Recommended Reading links to others sites for further information. Frequently Asked Questions is where we answer common questions. Quote of the Moment "[Yahoo!] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse" Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History By Dan Fletcher, TIME Magazine, Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 In The Media Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, 2018-12-19 Tumblr reportedly blocked archivists from saving blogs before the NSFW purge Ana Valens, The Daily Dot, 2018-12-19 Archivists Say Tumblr IP Banned Them For Trying to Preserve Adult Content Samantha Cole, Motherboard, 2018-12-19 As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists Mike Masnick, Techdirt, 2018-12-18 The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity Sean Captain, Fast Company, 2018-12-12 Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2018-01-04 Behind the effort to archive Nintendo’s disappearing social network Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2017-09-07 Archive Team promises to back up SoundCloud amid worries of a shutdown Dani Deahl, The Verge, 2017-07-17 IMDB closes forums - ArchiveTeam steps in (German) Felix Knoke, Engadget DE, 2017-02-17 Digital Amnesia Bregtje van der Haak, VPRO Backlight, 2014-09-11 (Also available at the Internet Archive) More...

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