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| URL = [https://www.zippyshare.com/ www.zippyshare.com]
| URL = [https://www.zippyshare.com/ www.zippyshare.com]
| description = Free File Hosting, "File Life: 30 days after no activity."
| description = Free File Hosting, "File Life: 30 days after no activity."
| project_status = {{closing}}
| project_status = {{offline}}
| archiving_status = {{in progress}}
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}
| archiving_type = DPoS
| archiving_type = DPoS
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/zippyshare/ zippyshare]
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/zippyshare/ zippyshare]
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Zippyshare began in 2006. ZippyShare "outlived many similar websites, such as RapidShare, Hotfile, and Megaupload."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippyshare]
Zippyshare began in 2006. ZippyShare "outlived many similar websites, such as RapidShare, Hotfile, and Megaupload."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippyshare]
The DPoS project retrieved several terabytes of data, although this was likely not the entirety of the site as there was no index to use - rather, other websites were scraped for URLs (like search engines, social media, etc).


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Revision as of 03:15, 1 April 2023

Zippyshare.com
Zippyshare logo
Free File Hosting, "File Life: 30 days after no activity."
Free File Hosting, "File Life: 30 days after no activity."
URL www.zippyshare.com
Status Offline
Archiving status Partially saved
Archiving type DPoS
Project source zippyshare-grab
Project tracker zippyshare
IRC channel #zippyshart (on hackint)
Project lead User:Usernam

Zippyshare.com is a temporary file sharing website. (It was "permanent" if uploads/file had enough activity.) In 2023-03-19, it was announced that it would shut down in 2023-03-31. In a post titled "Inofrmation about the closure of the project" it was stated that the site would shut down due to being an old/old-style website, being less popular, being ad-blocked, and not being able to pay for stuff like electricity.

www.zippyshare.com is excluded from the Wayback Machine, so https://archive.ph/www.zippyshare.com is one source which can be used to discover files and accounts such as https://www.zippyshare.com/jillem (182 pages of uploads, all alive as of writing this).

Zippyshare began in 2006. ZippyShare "outlived many similar websites, such as RapidShare, Hotfile, and Megaupload."[1]

The DPoS project retrieved several terabytes of data, although this was likely not the entirety of the site as there was no index to use - rather, other websites were scraped for URLs (like search engines, social media, etc).