Archiving
Google’s Plan to Delete Inactive Accounts Shows the Internet Isn't Forever
The company’s strategy of killing inactive accounts after two years shows the real risk of having one account for everything if the goal is to keep your content online forever.
Archive Team Races to Save a Billion Imgur Files Before Porn Deletion Apocalypse
It's not just porn: As a major deadline hits, archivists are speeding up their efforts to backup Imgur, and are asking for help from the community to archive the last batch of images.
The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the Internet
It’s not just porn that’s getting deleted from Imgur. Millions of images that are embedded elsewhere will also eventually be taken down.
Amazon Shut Down DPReview. The Community Is Saving It
In response to Amazon’s shuttering of the bedrock digital photography community, developers are taking steps to protect the crowdsourced data and revive the community on brand new websites like DPRevied.
The US Is Removing Records of Its War in Afghanistan From the Internet
Worried that the Taliban will retaliate against anyone that worked with coalition forces, various agencies are scrubbing the internet of pictures, videos, and reports about the war.
Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol
Technologists are using scripts and tools to now pull noteworthy content from the huge Parler dataset.
The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next)
The hacker, donk_enby, explained that she only scraped what was publicly available: "I hope that it can be used to hold people accountable and to prevent more death."
Youtube-dl is Back on Github: 'Our Priority Is Supporting Open Source'
After removing the popular tool for claims of copyright infringement, Github has done a 180-degree turn on that decision.
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
Millions of books are secretly in the public domain thanks to a copyright loophole, a new project seeks to put them on the Internet Archive.
The Many Ways Planned Obsolescence Is Sabotaging How We Preserve Internet History
We keep screwing over yesterday’s technology due to an intent focus on what we’re doing today. The problem of planned obsolescence is only getting worse.
Guerrilla Tree Archivists Cloned Ancient Redwoods Using Their Dead Stumps
The nonprofit ‘Archangel Ancient Tree Archive’ made 75 ancient redwood clones using DNA from five ancient redwood stumps.
Archivists Say Tumblr IP Banned Them For Trying to Preserve Adult Content
Following a ban on adult content, archivists raced to save Tumblr's NSFW communities—but some say the platform tried to stop them.