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.
Ha! My type of ironing is a hot dryer! I hate ironing and I'm no good at it. My mom, on the other hand, loves it and is more than willing to help me out on occasion.
ReplyDeleteSo funny!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was married to my first husband, he'd go to work in the morning and, I swear this is true, I would RE-IRON his shirts!!! Bored? Yes!
But truly I didn't mind it then!
Today...no. Only if I really have to! Usually the wrinkles fall out, right? Ha!
Very commendable of GB to be so conscientious. I agree the little finger position, is essential to a well pressed item!
ReplyDeleteOnce you have returned home.. there will be some very interesting posts on his blog! lol.
Love Granny
HAHAHAHA!!
ReplyDeleteYou'd better be paying attention when he clicks that button on his camera :)
Really though...ironing can bring one a sense of peace, if they enjoy it :)
If I'd iron anything, I might like it but very rarely do I wear anything that needs ironing...nor do I actually have time set aside to iron (I'd rather be blogging).
This might be the posting that tips me over the edge! Fortunately I've never been the vindictive type otherwise....
ReplyDeleteHelp!
ReplyDeleteI love that someone else other than my huhoney doesn't mind ironing! A friend dropped by after a girls bowling night and we walked in and there was my huhoney ironing MY CLOTHES! She about choked and asked what in the world I had done with him to have him ironing??? NOT a thing...just LOVE I guess! hehehehe....
ReplyDeletehahaha - I love you guys!!!
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