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April 22, 2013 09:28 pm GMT

Want To Help Archive Upcoming.org Before Yahoo Shuts It Down? Try This.

upcoming-logoThe Archive Team, the same group whoonce saved around 900 GB of Geocities content before Yahoo shut it down, laterreleasing it in torrent format, is now focusing on archiving content from another Yahoo property preparing to hit the chopping block: Upcoming.org. The collective's involvement in saving the index of the events database follows an impassioned plea from creator Andy Baio, who recently explained how Yahoo's security made it difficult to back up the site's content by simply scraping pages.

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