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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
Warrior-based projects
- URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on EFnet).
Scripts only
- Clutch: Game clips site that lost a clutch-or-kick bet, getting kicked on August 14 2020. IRC Channel #pearls (on hackint).
- Bitbucket: Kicking the bucket on Mercurial repositories by July 1 2020 to worship Git instead. IRC Channel #kickthebucket (on hackint).
Manual projects
- 2019-2020 coronavirus outbreak: Documenting and preserving data, events, and impacts of the virus on society. IRC Channel #coronarchive (on EFnet)
- Yahoo! Groups: Years of internet threads, soon to go private-only. IRC Channel #yahoosucks (on hackint)
- ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot (on EFnet).
- WikiTeam: Saving wikis dumps (XML). And their external links for the Wayback Machine (WARC) as well as exporting MediaWiki databases. Permanent effort, everyone can help (you choose the size of your downloads). IRC Channel #wikiteam (on EFnet).
- MP3.com: Digging through the WayBack Machine's archives to build a database of all the DAM CDs made available through the site.
Upcoming & proposed projects
Recently finished projects
- Mixer: Video game streaming network shutting down 2020-07-23. IRC Channel #mixdown (on hackint)
Hiatus / Missed the Mark
ArchiveTeam primarily uses the EFnet IRC network – irc://irc.efnet.org – webchat: http://chat.efnet.org:9090 – More info
ArchiveTeam also uses the hackint IRC network – ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697 (TLS required) – webchat: https://webirc.hackint.org/ – More info
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What is What
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- 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.
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Some Starting Points
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- Software will assist you in regaining control of your data by providing tools for information backup, archiving and distribution.
- Formats will familiarize 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.
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Quote of the Moment
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"[Yahoo!] found the way to destroy
the most massive amount of history
in the shortest amount of time
with absolutely no recourse"
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Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History
By Dan Fletcher, TIME Magazine, Monday, Nov. 09, 2009
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In The Media
- Katie Notopoulos, Buzzfeed News, 2019-12-28
- Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 2019-12-11
- Daniel AJ Sokolov, heise online, 2019-12-11
- Ryan Whitwam, ExtremeTech, 2019-12-10
- Harrison Weber, Fast Company, 2019-12-10
- Karl Bode, Motherboard, 2019-12-09
- Neda Ulaby, NPR All Things Considered, 2019-12-09
- Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 2019-12-09
- Aaron Mak, Slate Magazine, 2019-12-09
- Carly Page, The INQUIRER, 2019-12-09
- More...
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