| 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 projectsArchiveTeam's Choice: Telegram Short-term, urgent projects- Post News: Shutting down on 2024-05-31 due to the service "not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform." IRC Channel #past-news (on hackint).
Medium-term projects(none currently) Long-term projects- 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).
- 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).
- Telegram: Archiving public messages in various newsworthy and/or otherwise notable Telegram channels. IRC Channel #telegrab (on hackint).
- Tor URLs: A random collection of stuff, but from Tor
.onion URLs. IRC Channel #// (on hackint). - URLTeam: URL shorteners were a f*cking 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).
An updated Warrior virtual appliance (v3.2) 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)
- 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).
Upcoming & proposed projects- 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- DeviantArt: Archiving custom widgets, favorites, group affiliations, countdown timers, admin forums, and admin announcements. IRC Channel #devianttart (on hackint)
- Roblox: Robbing people of marketplace comments on 2024-04-09. IRC Channel #robloxd (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 sh*t. 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 haitus.
- 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).
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- July, 2013: Snapjoy died. We grabbed what we could.
- May, 2013: Xanga announces a "rehash" in the form of paid accounts, and a kickstarter.
- April, 2013: Yahoo still hasn't learned its lesson, and closes Upcoming.
- April, 2013: Telinco, Nwnet deletes ALL the things.
- March, 2013: Google decides RSS feeds is for hipsters, closes Reader.
- March, 2013: Formspring catches on fire.
- March, 2013: Yahoo burns the messenger.
- February, 2013: IGN is acquired by Ziff Davis, and announces the closing of 1up, UGO, and Gamespy.
- February, 2013: Posterous announces it's deleting history at the end of April.
- January, 2013: That took long enough! We've turned on new user account creation, with a "are you human" edit checker added.
- August, 2012: It's August Cleanup time! We're shutting off new user accounts while we clean out spam and generally shore up the ol' barge.
- May, 2012: Tabblo announces its closure scheduled for May 30th, giving its userbase just ten days of warning. Archive Team is on the case.
- May, 2012: Archive Team's save of Stage6, a defunct video sharing site run by DivX, Inc. is permanently preserved at the Internet Archive.
- April, 2012: 20 million Friendster accounts spanning 14 terabytes are successfully rescued for permanent storage by Archive Team.
- March, 2012: FortuneCity announced the end of its free-hosting model, threatening around one million user-generated websites.
- March, 2012: We've switched servers to one of those new-fangled hosting companies that aren't hacked. We're going to sell you a lot less in the way of medical supplies now.
- December, 2011: POE News says it will soon be nevermore: Announcement
- December, 2011: GamePro magazine halts publication and their website goes dark.
- November, 2011: Archive Team rescues over 1.3 million users' data from Splinder's closure.
- July 2011: Archive Team teaches you how to rescue data from Floppy Disks.
- May, 2011: Friendster is deleting everything at the end of the month.
- May, 2011: Archive Team keeps it classy at poetry.com.
- April, 2011: How about some Google Video?
- March, 2011: The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference talks are available.
- February, 2011: Let's watch some Yahoo! Video
- December, 2010: Archive Team is Delicious!
- October, 2010: Archive Team offers Geocities as a torrent.
- December 23, 2009: Yahoo shut down starwars.yahoo.com. We got a copy.
- October, 2009: Geocities closing is definitely the top of the charts.
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| What is What |
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- 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 |
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- 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 familiarise 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 |
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| "[Yahoo!] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of historyin 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 | Recently Ended Projects- Google Reader - Grabbed 46M feeds before it closed July 1, 2013.
- Posterous - Blogging platform acquired by Twitter on March 12, 2012. Closed April 30, 2013.
- MobileMe - Apple's file storage and sharing service, which hosted over 200 terabytes of data, shut down on June 30, 2012.
- Tabblo - A site where users told stories with pictures. Closed May 30, 2012.
- FanFiction.Net - Around 7 million fan-fiction stories hosted on what may be the largest site of its kind in the world. They're not shutting down but Archiveteam has a copy "just in case".
- Geocities - We archived most of GeoCities mother f*ckers!
- FortuneCity - It may be gone but we've still got it
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