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Organization: Archive Team

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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.

Collection: Archive Team: Blogger

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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20251124115915/https://thepoutingpensioner.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Reasons to go MIA

Hello my lovelies,

This is just a quick post to tell you I’ll be posting spasmodically for the next week or so as I become embroiled in garden projects, a new conservatory roof and not least of all, the days-long celebrations to mark our 80th year of liberation from wartime occupation. It’s a big celebration, as is 80th VE Day on 8th May which is also being celebrated all week.

Here are some “vintage” Lib Day pics.

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With my Guernsey flag bunting.

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A 1940s style dress.

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Wearing red and blue, and the white is my gnashers!

I hope to posts pics of this year’s 9 May celebrations in town a few days later, and post on the other projects in due course.

Please bear with me and if you’re subscribed you’ll get a notification of posts anyway, but please don’t fret if you find me MIA.

Please don’t forget to leave a comment (if you can think of something to say about this MIA notification!), and if you haven’t already subscribed then please please please do!

A la perchoine,

Mary x

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