ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack
textfilesdotcom · 3 HN recommendations
Video Q&A
Ask AI to explain this scene or summarize the whole video. When an answer includes timestamps, select one to jump to that moment.
Try asking: What is the speaker explaining here?
Google sign-in is required. Review the maximum credit cost before confirming.
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 HN recommends it: HN points to it whenever a company shuts down a service and wipes user content, as an entertaining case for digital preservation.
“gave a fantastically entertaining talk about how they saved Geocities, Yahoo! Video, and Friendster” Read on HN ↗