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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 Issuu: Interactive flipbook repository is clamping down on free users' upload limits and plans to make existing uploads falling foul of its new limits inaccessible to others. IRC Channel #wetakeissuu (on hackint). Ukraine/Russian invasion: Archiving various .ua sites in the wake of the Russian government's invasion. IRC Channel #ucryne (on hackint). Telegram: Archiving public messages in various newsworthy and/or otherwise notable Telegram channels. IRC Channel #telegrab (on hackint). GitHub: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. IRC Channel #gitgud (on hackint). MediaFire: Not 'at-risk' but grabbing speculatively to save historic files IRC Channel #mediaonfire (on hackint). Google Drive: Same as MediaFire. IRC Channel #googlecrash (on hackint). Reddit: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. Currently grabbing new material. IRC Channel #shreddit (on hackint). URLs: A random collection of stuff. IRC Channel #// (on hackint). URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on hackint). An updated Warrior virtual appliance (v3.2) is now available with better support for newer projects that utilize wget-at. Please download it using the link above. Manual projects 2019-202? coronavirus outbreak: Documenting and preserving data, events, and impacts of the virus on society. IRC Channel #coronarchive (on hackint) ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot (on hackint). 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 hackint). Dead people: When people die, their webpages and/or social media might go "Poof!" due to fees and other knick-knack. IRC Channel #archiveteam (on hackint) Upcoming & proposed projects Zippyshare.com: File sharing host opens its wallet, discovers it looks nearly empty, but will keep hosting until March 31, 2023. IRC Channel #zippyshart (on hackint). Chrome Web Store: Google has announced a timeline of policy changes that will lead to content being removed between December 1, 2020 and 2023. IRC Channel #chromeweblore (on hackint). Abandoned iOS App Store & Google Play apps: Both Apple and Google are slimming down on abandoned apps, with an estimated ~1.5M of them at risk. IRC Channel #appocalypse (on hackint). Kinja: Deleting all user pages, maybe? IRC Channel #gokinjagokinjago (on hackint). Twitter: Deleting inactive accounts 2019-12-11 sometime. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint). VKontakte: A Russian equivalent of Facebook carries the risk of tumbling down under the weight of sanctions as a result of the government's invasion of Ukraine. IRC Channel #lostkontakt (on hackint). YouTube: Archiving all YouTube metadata and selected videos afterwards soon. IRC Channel #down-the-tube (on hackint). Imgur: Image hoster decided that using it for hosting images is not permitted. (Now it's been bought by MediaLab.) IRC Channel #imgone (on hackint). JamiiForums: the Tanzanian government would like this gone. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint). LiveJournal: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint). Ownlog: Ownlog is losing popularity and support from its owners. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint). The Pirate Bay: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint). Valhalla: Where to store what even the Internet Archive doesn't have space for? IRC Channel #huntinggrounds (on hackint). Giphy: Bought by Facebook, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy Recently finished projects Classic Google Sites: Making more sites inaccessible to the public starting September 1, 2021 January 30, 2023 with Workspace accounts. IRC Channel #nearlylostmygoogles (on hackint). TJ (aka TJournal): Russian news platform shutting down 2022-09-10 over Ukraine reporting. IRC Channel #journalthis (on hackint). Hiatus / Missed the Mark Webs: Vistaprint is killing off the Freewebs you knew from the 2000s on March 31 June 30, 2021 sometime, unless you pay up. IRC Channel #webbed (on hackint). Tinkercad: Autodesk announced its intent to put designs from inactive OAuth accounts back into minds around May 24, 2021. IRC Channel #tinkerhad (on hackint). Angelfire: Angelfire is a web hosting service that contains big chunks of early WWW history and has no proper backup. IRC Channel #angelonfire (on hackint). Audit 2014: It's time to verify our shit. IRC Channel #auditteam (on hackint). THIS PROJECT IS ON HIATUS AND WILL BE RETURNED TO AS AUDIT2018. Flickr: Yahoo! SmugMug decided to kill it after finding Yahoo!'s plans to do so before they were bought by Verizon. IRC Channel #flickrfckr (on hackint). FTP: Help us find and download all FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee (on hackint). Google Groups: "Gone within a year" (SketchCow, 2016-06-07). Google News Archive: Let's store all newspapers at Google, WCGW? IRC Channel #papersplease (on hackint). DevPort: This portfolio SaaS provider has reportedly been having infrastructure issues, and removed their social media accounts. Possible impending shutdown. INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK: Grab a slice of the big cake of The Archive! IRC Channel #internetarchive.bak (on hackint). ISP Hosting: Finding ISP web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them. IRC Channel #webroasting (on hackint). NewsGrabber: Saving all news articles. Currently paused. IRC Channel #newsgrabber (on hackint). Project Newsletter: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development. IRC Channel #projectnewsletter (on hackint). Quizlet: Flashcards and other learning tools IRC Channel #quizletusin (on hackint). Tumblr: Yahoo! considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired and Verizon declared war on NSFW blogs. Tumblr has since been sold to Automattic. IRC Channel #tumbledown (on hackint). yuku: Lately yuku is very unstable and hosting thousands of forums. Project currently paused. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint). ArchiveTeam uses the hackint IRC network – ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697 (TLS required) – webchat: https://webirc.hackint.org/ – 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 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. 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 Internet Archive sta cercando di salvare i siti ucraini Tommaso Meo, Wired Italia, 2022-03-25 Archivists Make Sure the Internet Doesn’t Forget Russia’s War on Ukraine Karl Bode, VICE, 2022-02-28 Amid war fears, archivists are racing to preserve Ukraine’s internet Chris Stokel-Walker, Input, 2022-02-18 Yahoo, the Destroyer Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2021-04-25 How Yahoo Answers went from Q&A site to total collapse Adam Smith, The Independent, 2021-04-13 We're Archiving Yahoo Answers So You'll Always Know How Babby Is Formed Dhruv Mehrotra and Shoshana Wodinsky, Gizmodo, 2021-04-09 RIP Yahoo Answers: It Died As It Lived, Needlessly And Stupidly Katie Notopoulos, BuzzFeed News, 2021-04-05 The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next) Leland Nally, VICE, 2021-01-12 RIP Adobe Flash: Five Takeaways About the Plug-in’s Legacy in Net Art Rea McNamara, Hyperallergic, 2020-12-18 Digital archives keep track of lost websites, lapsed domain names from the early years Rachel Lopez, Hindustan Times, 2020-08-14 More...

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