ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

Why it was recommended

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

Strong recommendationaroman · Original2014-06

What it covers

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. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

textfilesdotcom

Length

44 min 19 sec

Year

2011

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