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[B]What is the Archive Team?[/B]
The Archive Team is a "loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths" that grab sites before they go down for good. The team gained large notoriety when Geocities was about to be shut down. Ever since, they've gone on to grab services like Google Reader, MobileMe, Yahoo! Video, and more.
[B]Okay, sounds interesting, but why?[/B]
Imagine that you have a relative or a good friend pass away. Chances are, unless they died of old age, they certainly wouldn't have written down their password to manage content they have. Next thing you know, that site might shut down. What the Archive Team does is they preserve history.
[B]Press coverage[/B]
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/jason-scott-archive-team_n_2965368.html[/url]
[quote=Huffington Post]On Feb. 15, the Archive Team, a loose collective of programmers and netizens, received its equivalent of a 911 call: The founder of Posterous, a blogging platform, announced the site was shutting down -- and taking its users' content down with it.
After years spent convincing people to trust Posterous as the repository for their baby photos, recipes, musings and travelogues, the company gave its over 15 million users just ten weeks to back up their information before it would be permanently deleted.
A handful of Archive Team volunteers quickly convened in a chatroom to figure out -- like they had many times before in similar situations -- how to save Posterous' millions of posts from disappearing with the site itself.
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00przc2[/url] (audio clip)
[url]http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/22/want-to-help-archive-upcoming-org-before-yahoo-shuts-it-down-try-this/[/url]
[quote=TechCrunch]The Archive Team, the same group who once saved around 900 GB of Geocities content before Yahoo shut it down, later releasing it in torrent format, is now focusing on archiving content from another Yahoo property preparing to hit the chopping block: Upcoming.org. The collective’s involvement in saving the index of the events database follows an impassioned plea from creator Andy Baio, who recently explained how Yahoo’s security made it difficult to back up the site’s content by simply scraping pages.
His post on Friday – well worth the read for the personal insight on what it was like to watch Yahoo slowly destroy his startup following the acquisition – has him calling the choice to sell to Yahoo “a horrible mistake,” and Yahoo “a particularly horrible steward for the community” Upcoming.org had built.[/quote]
[url]http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/426434/fire-in-the-library/[/url]
[quote=MIT Technology Review]Until a few months ago, Poetry•.com held more than 14 million user-submitted poems, some dating back to the mid-1990s. The site existed to make money: it had ads and at one point sold $60 anthologies to fledgling poets who wanted to see their work in print. But to the users, Poetry.com was much more than a business. It was a scrapbook, a chest for storing precious emotional keepsakes. And they assumed, perhaps naïvely, that it would always be there.
On April 14, the owner of the site abruptly announced that it had been sold and that every poem would be removed by May 4. “Dear Poets,” read an e-mail sent to the roughly seven million users. “Please be sure to copy and paste your poems onto your computer and connect with any fellow poets offsite.” Users who saw the notice rushed to notify their fellow poets, some of whom had not logged on in months. At 12:01 a.m. on the appointed date, all 14 million poems disappeared from public view. “Your poems are GONE,” wrote •1VICTOR, one of the site’s users. “This tells me that their intentions is not on the soul of poetry! But the goal of growing in hits.”[/quote]
([url=http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=In_The_Media]and many more...[/url])
[B]Okay, now this sounds REALLY interesting. How do I help?[/B]
One of the first ways you can get involved is to hang around the #archiveteam channel on EFnet (note that the EFnet IRC network has a pretty low character limit for nicknames).
You can also take a look on the website as well for projects, just click on the logo.
The main way one can help is through the Warrior VM. It'll automatically help grab sites and will upload them automatically. Be sure to set aside some hard drive space as well. More info here: [url]http://tracker.archiveteam.org/[/url]
So are you ready to save some sites? Then what are you waiting for?!
One day I'll get that copy of geocities, I love me some heavily compressed gifs.
Awesome that some people are spending their time archiving the internet
I am going to punch your face, customary of the name of this forum.
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[QUOTE=NigHater;41777181]I am going to punch your face, customary of the name of this forum.[/QUOTE]
The name, the avatar, the post ... You're not gonna stay long here, but in the meanwhile, hello !
cwcki should be archived occasionally.
the end of that bbc link says "p00p"
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