Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:18:14 PDT
A volunteer team has been downloading the entire publicly accessible
contents of MobileMe webpages, iDisk folders, and photo galleries, ahead of
the shutdown of the MobileMe service on June 30.
The team just finished the project, some four days ahead of their deadline.
The project began late last yearn and ramped up as the team moved closer to
the MobileMe shutdown date.
Archive Team has finished downloading MobileMe and .Mac before Apple deletes
it on June 30. 272 terabytes. 380,000 users. HUUAAARRGG!!!
The Archive Team bills themselves as "a loose collective of rogue archivists
, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital
heritage." Among other things, the group offers a torrent with 641GB of
Geocities sites and a scrape of 90 million tweets across 6 million Twitter
accounts.
The group is not affiliated with website storing service Archive.org, but
does work with them to preserve data.
