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ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

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What it is

Jason Scott of Archive Team describes how a loose band of volunteers rushes to copy sites like Geocities, Friendster and Yahoo Video before their owners delete them. The talk covers the tactics they use and the argument that this data is history worth saving.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it whenever a company shuts down a service and wipes user content, as an entertaining case for digital preservation.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2016

What HN commenters said

  1. “gave a fantastically entertaining talk about how they saved Geocities, Yahoo! Video, and Friendster”

    Entertaining talk on how Archive Team saved Geocities, Yahoo! Video and Friendster.

    aroman, 2014-06 · Strong recommendation · in “ArchiveTeam rescues Justin.tv videos”

  2. “Jason Scott gave an excellent talk about this failure mode[1]”

    Jason Scott explains why companies deleting user content destroys historical evidence.

    chroma, 2014-05 · Recommendation · in “Justin.tv ending archiving, deleting all archived videos after June 14”

  3. “In it, he explains why this data is important.”

    Jason Scott explains why even mundane archived data becomes historically valuable.

    ggreer, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: archive team, geocities, web archiving, data loss, jason scott

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