Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
10 comments:
Hi Tom, I'm very sorry to hear this but I do understand the reasoning. Huge thanks to you, Nancy, Dave and Paul for all the hard work you've put in over a long period of time to make this site the valuable source of information and nostalgia that it is. Take care of yourselves, all of you.
Tom, very sorry to hear about this, not always seen eye to eye but wishing you all the best.
Thanks to the team and good luck to you all. What a great site this has been.
The blog will be sorely missed. Thanks to you all for the hard work you have put into it. It has been greatly appreciated!
Tom & team.
Well done all.
'ONWARD'
So sad to not have this up and running anymore , but health comes first, a BIG thank you to all who worked so hard on the Blob .
We've still got all the pictures, brilliant stories and great memories on here Tom thanks to you and your team. A job very well done. Take good care of yourself now.
tom thanks to you and the team for the great job you have done on this archive
Im real sorry tom but do take good care of yourself.and thanks for all the memories of hyde.
Thankyou so much to all of you! I live in Australia and have had so much pleasure from reading this blog over the years. Memories of my childhood were wonderful !!
Thankyou again Sylvua
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