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

Warrior-based projects

Current Running Warrior Project: URLTeam 2

GitHub: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. IRC Channel (on hackint) .

. Tencent Weibo: Chinese Twitter-clone miniblog shutting down on September 28, 2020. IRC Channel (on hackint).

URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel (on EFnet).

Scripts only

Clutch: Game clips site that lost a clutch-or-kick bet, getting kicked on August 14 2020. IRC Channel (on hackint) .

. Bitbucket: Kicking the bucket on Mercurial repositories by July 1 2020 to worship Git instead. IRC Channel (on hackint).

Manual projects

2019-2020 coronavirus outbreak: Documenting and preserving data, events, and impacts of the virus on society. IRC Channel (on EFnet)

Yahoo! Groups: Years of internet threads, soon to go private-only. IRC Channel (on hackint)

ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. 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 (on EFnet) .

. MP3.com: Digging through the WayBack Machine's archives to build a database of all the DAM CDs made available through the site.

Upcoming & proposed projects

Kinja: Deleting all user pages, maybe? IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. Twitter: Deleting inactive accounts 2019-12-11 sometime. IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

sometime. . Classic Google Sites: Making sites inaccessible to the public starting November 1, 2020. IRC Channel (on hackint) .

. Imgur: Image hoster decided that using it for hosting images is not permitted. IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. JamiiForums: the Tanzanian government would like this gone. IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. LiveJournal: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. Ownlog: Ownlog is losing popularity and support from its owners. IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. Reddit: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. IRC Channel (on hackint) .

. The Pirate Bay: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. Valhalla: Where to store what even the Internet Archive doesn't have space for? IRC Channel (on EFnet) .

. Giphy: Bought by Facebook, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy

Recently finished projects

Mixer: Video game streaming network shutting down 2020-07-23. IRC Channel (on hackint)

Hiatus / Missed the Mark