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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 Help us: ☞ Download and run your warrior ☜. What's on: online tracker. Donate to keep our projects going. Want to code for Archive Team? Here's a starting point. Warrior-based projects Short-term, urgent projects Twitch: A live video streaming service, mass deletion will take place on 2025-05-19. IRC Channel #burnthetwitch (on hackint) US Government: Archiving the US government. IRC Channel #UncleSamsArchive (on hackint) Livestream: A video stream site merging with Vimeo in 2025-01. IRC Channel #deadtrickle (on hackint) Retrospring: A question-and-answer site, will close at 2025-03-01. IRC Channel #driedup (on hackint) Goo.gl: Google's URL shortener will shut down on 2025-08-25. IRC Channel #urlteamwasright (on hackint) Voice of America: An internationally-broadcasting state media network at risk of closure. IRC Channel #UncleSamsArchive (on hackint) Medium-term projects (none currently) Long-term projects Telegram: Archiving public messages in various newsworthy and/or otherwise notable Telegram channels. IRC Channel #telegrab (on hackint). URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on hackint). URLs: A random collection of stuff. IRC Channel #// (on hackint). YouTube: Archiving selected videos. IRC Channel #down-the-tube (on hackint). Long-term, slower-paced projects These are projects that are actively running but generally only have small numbers of items available to complete at a time. Blogger: Grabbing inactive Blogger blogs since Google began a mass purge of inactive Google accounts on or after 2023-12-01. IRC Channel #frogger (on hackint). GitHub: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. IRC Channel #gitgud (on hackint). Imgur: Unregistered users' "old" and "inactive" images will be purged, and all NSFW content is being shown the door on 2023-05-15. IRC Channel #imgone (on hackint). MediaFire: Not 'at-risk' but grabbing speculatively to save historic files IRC Channel #mediaonfire (on hackint). Pastebin: Archiving the pastas. IRC Channel #pastalavista (on hackint). An updated Warrior virtual appliance (v3.2, v4.0) is now available with better support for newer projects that utilize wget-at. Manual projects ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot (on hackint). Codearchiver: Dumping and archival of source code repositories and associated version control systems. IRC Channel #codearchiver (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) Wikibot and 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 Channels #wikibot (on hackint) #wikiteam (on hackint). Upcoming & proposed projects Dailymotion: Archiving inactive videos. IRC Channel #DailyDemotion (on hackint) Chrome Web Store: Google has announced a timeline of policy changes that will lead to content being removed between 2021-12-01 and 2025. IRC Channel #chromeweblore (on hackint). Photobucket: Finally following through on over a year of email threats that free accounts are going to be mass deactivated if they don't pay up. IRC Channel #photosucket (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). Twitter: General instability; 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). 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). 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 FacebookShutterstock, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy Recently finished projects SS Blog: Japanese blog will shut down on 2025-03-31.. IRC Channel #sos-blog (on hackint) Clyp: An audio hosting site purging old content by 2025-01-19. IRC Channel #apocaclyps (on hackint) 竹白: A newsletter creation and distribution site will close at 2025-03-31. IRC Channel #zhubye (on hackint) On Hiatus 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). 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 Drive: Same as MediaFire. IRC Channel #googlecrash (on hackint). Currently on hiatus. 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). 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). Miraheze: Shutting down sometime between 2023-09-01 and 2023-10-31. Rescued by new volunteers! Project Newsletter: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development. IRC Channel #projectnewsletter (on hackint). Quizlet: Flashcards and other learning tools IRC Channel #quizletusin (on hackint). Tinkercad: Autodesk announced its intent to put designs from inactive OAuth accounts back into minds around 2021-05-24. IRC Channel #tinkerhad (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). Reddit: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. Restricted access to APIs and data on 2023-06-19. IRC Channel #shreddit (on hackint). ArchiveTeam uses the hackint IRC network – ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697 (TLS required) – webchat: https://chat.hackint.org/#/connect?join=archiveteam-bs – 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, 2009-11-09 In The Media Shutdowns don’t stop during the weekends Lennart Mühlenmeier, Netzpolitik, 2023-07-26 Shutdowns machen auch an den Wochenenden nicht Halt Lennart Mühlenmeier, Netzpolitik, 2023-07-26 Archive Team Races to Save a Billion Imgur Files Before Porn Deletion Apocalypse Ernie Smith, Motherboard, 2023-05-15 Something Awful is racing to save the best and worst of web history Adi Robertson, The Verge, 2023-05-08 The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the Internet Ernie Smith, Motherboard, 2023-04-27 Archiving The Entirety Of DPReview Before It’s Gone Maya Posh, Hackaday, 2023-03-31 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 More...

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