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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. | 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. | ||
Feel free to join us on the [[IRC_Channel|IRC channel]]! We're on the EFnet network in a channel called '''#archiveteam''', where we say truly awful things | Feel free to join us on the [[IRC_Channel|IRC channel]]! We're on the EFnet network in a channel called '''#archiveteam''', where we say truly awful things. | ||
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* '''[[MobileMe]]''' - Apple's file storage and sharing service, currently hosting over 200 terabytes of data, is shutting down on June 30, 2012. | * '''[[MobileMe]]''' - Apple's file storage and sharing service, currently hosting over 200 terabytes of data, is shutting down on June 30, 2012. | ||
** A distributed tracker and very easy-to-use scripts are in place. | ** A distributed tracker and very easy-to-use scripts are in place. | ||
** More downloaders are needed for this project! | ** More downloaders are needed for this project! | ||
** Track the download progress at http://memac.heroku.com/ ''' | ** Track the download progress at http://memac.heroku.com/ '''80 terabytes''' and counting! | ||
* '''[[ | * '''[[FortuneCity]]''' - A "free" webhost founded in 1997 with around 1 million users. Going non-free/closing on April 30, 2012. | ||
** | ** Project essentially complete! | ||
* '''[[FanFiction.Net]]''' - Around 7 million fan-fiction stories hosted on what may be the largest site of its kind in the world. They're not shutting down but Archiveteam wants a copy for posterity. | * '''[[FanFiction.Net]]''' - Around 7 million fan-fiction stories hosted on what may be the largest site of its kind in the world. They're not shutting down but Archiveteam wants a copy for posterity. | ||
** Coders are currently needed to figure out an intelligent way to comprehensively archive the site. | ** Coders are currently needed to figure out an intelligent way to comprehensively archive the site. | ||
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* '''April, 2012''': 20 million Friendster accounts spanning 14 terabytes are successfully rescued for permanent storage by Archive Team. | * '''April, 2012''': 20 million Friendster accounts spanning 14 terabytes are successfully rescued for permanent storage by Archive Team. | ||
* '''March, 2012''': [http://www.dereferer.org/?http%3A%2F%2Ffortunecity.com FortuneCity] announced the end of its free-hosting model, threatening around one million user-generated websites. | * '''March, 2012''': [http://www.dereferer.org/?http%3A%2F%2Ffortunecity.com FortuneCity] announced the end of its free-hosting model, threatening around one million user-generated websites. |
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