In The Media
Assorted mentions of the Archive Team in major media, in descending chronological order:
2023
- 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
2022
- 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
2021
- 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
2020
- 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
- It’s Time to Archive the Internet Archive
- Samantha Cole and Jason Koebler, VICE, 2020-06-09
2019
- The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
- Katie Notopoulos, Buzzfeed News, 2019-12-28
- These crusaders want to preserve ‘human culture’ online. Their latest target: Yahoo Groups.
- Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 2019-12-11
- Verizon verhindert Archivierung der Yahoo Groups
- Daniel AJ Sokolov, heise online, 2019-12-11
- Verizon Bans Archivists Trying to Save Yahoo Groups Data From Deletion
- Ryan Whitwam, ExtremeTech, 2019-12-10
- Verizon says archiving Yahoo Groups would strain its resources. The reality is much sadder
- Harrison Weber, Fast Company, 2019-12-10
- Verizon Is Blocking Efforts to Preserve Internet History
- Karl Bode, Motherboard, 2019-12-09
- Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups
- Neda Ulaby, NPR All Things Considered, 2019-12-09
- Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion
- Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 2019-12-09
- “Let Us Get Our Stuff and Leave” – Verizon is shutting down Yahoo Groups this weekend—and blocking users trying to archive its content.
- Aaron Mak, Slate Magazine, 2019-12-09
- Verizon blocks archivists from preserving 20 years of Yahoo Groups history
- Carly Page, The INQUIRER, 2019-12-09
- Verizon kills email accounts of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups history
- Liam Tung, ZDNet, 2019-12-09
- Yahoo Groups archivists despair as Verizon blocks their preservation efforts ahead of shutdown
- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, 2019-12-08
- Twitter Said It Will Not Delete The Accounts Of Dead People
- Katie Notopoulos, Buzzfeed News, 2019-11-27
- This might be your best chance to preserve tweets from deceased loved ones
- Jon Porter, The Verge, 2019-11-27
- How to download the internet: survival instruction for an autonomous Runet (in Russian)
- Meduza, 2019-05-21
- The race to preserve (almost) everything on Google+ before it shuts down
- Matt Binder, Mashable, 2019-03-18
- Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files
- Steven Melendez, Gizmodo, 2019-03-04
2018
- 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
- Grupo de fãs e engenheiros conseguiu salvar o Miiverse do amargo fim
- Ronaldo Gogoni, Meio Bit, 2018-01-05
- Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans After The Social Network Was Shut Down
- Nathaniel Artosilla, Christian Post, 2018-01-05
- Miss Miiverse? Don't Worry, Nintendo Social Network Lives On At Archiverse
- John Diente, Tech Times, 2018-01-04
- This amazing archive lets you revisit Miiverse
- Jordan Devore, Destructoid, 2018-01-04
- Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown
- Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2018-01-04
- Millions of Miiverse posts have been archived safely
- Brittany Vincent, Dot Esports, 2018-01-04
- Nintendo Miiverse returns to the internet with massive fan-made archive
- Jon Porter, TechRadar, 2018-01-04
- The Miiverse Archive Is Live, and Boy Does It Bring Back Memories
- Nadia Oxford, USgamer, 2018-01-04
- Nintendo's Miiverse Has Been Archived by Fans
- Matthew Byrd, Den of Geek, 2018-01-04
- Miiverse : les 5 ans d'existence du réseau ont été archivés sur un site que voici
- Damien Greffet, Jeux Actu, 2018-01-04
- Miiverse al rescate: decenas de millones de mensajes salvados
- Sergio C. González, Meri Station, 2018-01-04
- Archivistas salvan 17 Tb en datos de MiiVerse
- Jorge Gonzales, TekCrispy, 2018-01-04
- Nintendo's wonderful Miiverse has been preserved for posterity by enterprising internet archivists
- Matt Wales, Eurogamer, 2018-01-03
- Miiverse Archives Go Live, Preserving 72135190 Drawings
- Luke Plunkett, Kotaku, 2018-01-03
- Nintendo's Miiverse lives on in a giant internet archive
- Jon Fingas, Engadget, 2018-01-03
- Massive Miiverse archive goes online with 17 TB worth of posts
- Michael McWhertor, Polygon, 2018-01-03
- Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans
- Hope Corrigan, IGN, 2018-01-03
- Someone’s Archived 72 Million Miiverse Posts
- James Paley, COGconnected, 2018-01-03
- Archiverse – The Massive Miiverse Archive Has Almost 17 TB of Miiverse Memories
- Rizwan Anwer, TheNerdMag, 2018-01-03
- Archivo de Miiverse hecho por fans ya está disponible
- Víctor Rosas, LEVELUP, 2018-01-03
2017
- 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
2016
- A worldwide effort to stop the web losing its memory
- Mic Moroney, The Irish Times, 2016-11-24
2015
- Az internet nem felejt
- Péter Szűcs, IT Café, 2015-03-05
2014
- Digital Amnesia
- Bregtje van der Haak, VPRO Backlight, 2014-09-11
- (Also available at the Internet Archive)
2013
- Hyves-redders redden het niet óf nipt
- Jasper Bakker, Webwereld, 2013-11-29
- IsoHunt Shuts Down Early To Stop Archive Team From Recording Important Historical Information
- Mike Masnick, Techdirt, 2013-10-22
- isoHunt shuts down a day early to avoid becoming part of online archive
- Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 2013-10-21
- ArchiveTeam Works Hard to Avert isoHunt Data Massacre
- Ernesto, TorrentFreak, 2013-10-20
- Cyfrowi archeolodzy WWW
- Hieronim Walicki, CHIP.pl, 2013-06-18
- And the Winner Is… Announcing the 2013 NDSA Innovation Award Winners
- Trevor Owens, The Signal, Library of Congress, 2013-06-11
- Archive Team: los superhéroes que evitan que las webs caigan en el olvido
- Alvaro Ibanez, rtve.es, 2013-05-27. (Rough translation: Archive Team: superheroes that prevent us from falling into oblivion.)
- Want To Help Archive Upcoming.org Before Yahoo Shuts It Down? Try This.
- Sarah Perez, TechCrunch, 2013-04-22
- Jason Scott's Archive Team Is Saving The Web From Itself (And Rescuing Your Stuff)
- Bianca Bosker, The Huffington Post, 2013-03-27
- Archive Team races to preserve Posterous before it goes dark
- Kris Holt, The Daily Dot, 2013-03-13
2012
- The Archive Team finishes downloading all 272 terabytes of MobileMe and .Mac for posterity
- Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web, 2012-06-26
- The 'Archive Team' Rescues User Content From Doomed Sites
- Mark Sullivan, PCWorld, 2012-04-12
- Historic Archive Of Websites From The January 18th SOPA Blackout
- Mike Masnick, Techdirt, 2012-04-12
- The Archive Team
- On the Media, 2012-03-23. Backstory by Jason.
- The Archive Team
- BBC Click, 2012-03-06
- The Archive Team
- This Way Up, Radio New Zealand 2012-03-03
2011
- Fire in the Library
- Matt Schwartz, MIT Technology Review, 2011-12-20
- Digital legacy: Amateur heroes of online heritage
- Sumit Paul-Choudhury, New Scientist, 2011-06-05
- Full Interview: Jason Scott on online video and digital heritage
- Nora Young, Spark, CBC.ca, 2011-04-29
- Archivists step in as Google Video shuts down for good
- Mark Brown, Wired, 2011-04-18
2010
- Coming Soon: 900GB Torrent Of (Mostly) Every Geocities Web Site Ever
- Nicholas Deleon, TechCrunch, 2010-10-29
- Archiving GeoCities: my full interview with Jason Scott
- Dan Misener, 2010-09-29
2009
- Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion
- Austin Modine, The Register, 2009-04-28
