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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.
- Anything shutting down? Put it on the Deathwatch or tell us on IRC !
- Want to code for Archive Team? Here's a starting point.
Warrior-based projects
ArchiveTeam's Choice: Telegram
Short-term, urgent projects
Medium-term projects
- Meta Ad Library: Database for advertisements for Facebook and other products by Meta. IRC Channel #fads (on hackint)
- US Government: Archiving the US government. IRC Channel #UncleSamsArchive (on hackint)
- Radio Free Asia: Non-profit media organization owned by USAGM.
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Non-profit media organization owned by USAGM.
- Voice of America: An internationally-broadcasting state media network at risk of closure.
Long-term projects
- Telegram: Archiving public messages in various newsworthy and/or otherwise notable Telegram channels. IRC Channel #telegrab (on hackint).
- Twitch: Archiving metadata and select videos. IRC Channel #burnthetwitch (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年12月01日. 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年05月15日. IRC Channel #imgone (on hackint).
- MediaFire: Not 'at-risk' but grabbing speculatively to save historic files IRC Channel #mediaonfire (on hackint).
- Microsoft Update: Removal of legacy Windows drivers announced. IRC Channel #windowfixer (on hackint)
- Pastebin: Archiving the pastas. IRC Channel #pastalavista (on hackint).
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)
- Discord: Find invites? Send them in, maybe someone will eventually make an export. IRC Channel #discard (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).
- File Formats and Just Solve: Let's Document all the File Formats! also has contents on the likes of subdomains, e.g. fileformats.archiveteam.org and justsolve.archiveteam.org. IRC Channels #justsolve (on hackint)
Recently finished projects
- Bufftoon: South Korean webtoon and web novel platform shutting down on 2025年12月17日. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)
- 짱공유닷컴: South Korean forum shutting down on 2025年12月15日 11:00 KST (UTC+9). IRC Channel #jjang0n (on hackint)
- Adobe Aero: An application for creating Augmented Reality scenes, will be disabled on 2025年12月03日. IRC Channel #aeronaught (on hackint)
Upcoming projects
- Archiwum Allegro: A polish archival e-commerce will be closing on 2026-3
- Chrome Web Store: Google has announced a timeline of policy changes that will lead to content being removed between 2021年12月01日 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
(削除) 2019年12月11日 (削除ここまで)sometime. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint). - Dailymotion: Archiving inactive videos. IRC Channel #DailyDemotion (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 #recordedjournal (on hackint).
- The Pirate Bay: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. IRC Channel #yarharfiddlededee (on hackint).
- Valhalla: Where to store what even the Internet Archive doesn't have space for? IRC Channel #huntinggrounds (on hackint).
- Giphy: Bought by
(削除) Facebook (削除ここまで)Shutterstock, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into(削除) Instagram (削除ここまで)https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy
On hiatus
- Peing: A Japanese question/answer service, was slated to be shutdown on 2025年08月29日. IRC Channel #peingpong (on hackint)
- Tistory: Will delete inactive blogs on 2025年09月22日 IRC Channel #tatteredstory (on hackint)
Older projects
- 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:
(削除) Yahoo! (削除ここまで)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年06月07日).
- 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:
(削除) Shutting down sometime between 2023年09月01日 and 2023年10月31日. (削除ここまで)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年05月24日. 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年06月19日. 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
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"[Yahoo!] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse" |
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Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History
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