If there are LEGO fans on this subreddit, some of you probably know Brickshelf, a classic website that since 1998 has hosted various LEGO-related images (and some other formats): people's creations, LEGOLAND trip photos, instructions, forum banners and avatars, and what not. Obviously an important piece of early 2000s web and real digital artifact.

Sadly, as Brickshelf's creator Kevin M Loch has passed away (in fact, happened in 2024), the Brickshelf homepage now says that the site will be shut down on March 1. A month is left, so I summon all the hoarders and archivists able to save the day. I could help but I've got only 500GB of free space left on my hard drive.

The structure: Brickshelf is an old school website consisting of just ~5 million files (mostly photos) + approx. the same amount of photo previews, and a total of ~5.5 million html pages (folders, subfolders and individual file pages) which host these files, so it's all pretty manageable I guess.

Since Kevin Loch was an avid webmaster and had other projects, it would be great to back up not only Brickshelf but all other Kevin's sites too. Here's the links I was able to find:

https://kevinloch.com/

https://www.n3kl.org/

https://bsrender.io/

https://nensus.com/

The legacy should live on!

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I might as well give it a shot :)

I am searching for a TV show that aired in 1992 called Town Watch, which Dr. Sylvia Baer hosted.

Dr. Baer is my aunt, and she often speaks fondly of her time on the show. Unfortunately, she has not been able to find any episodes available online or through other sources. As her 75th birthday is next week, I thought it would be a wonderful surprise to gift her access to these episodes, so she could relive those cherished memories.

If anyone could kindly provide or lead me to links or information about where and how I might be able to access episodes of Town Watch, I would be incredibly grateful. Alternatively, if the episodes are archived elsewhere, I would deeply appreciate any guidance you can offer to help me locate them.

TIA!

I have this channel of a Youtuber that has posted some videos but has removed them or privated them. I got all the links of the videos by putting the channel into Wayback Machine and Filmot where you can see all the videos posted.

However, I have not been able to watch or download any of the videos because some of them are age restricted or have been privated which makes Wayback run into trouble when trying to play them. I am unable to watch them on Filmot as well. I've been scrouging through the web finding ways to solve this but am lost. I'm not aware of other ways to be able to get this done as I am a mere rookie.

So I ask, anyone well-versed in these things, could you offer some help on a way to be able to watch or download the videos. You would be the lord and saviour in flesh itself.

Here are the resources for the channel in Wayback and Filmot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230331000000*/https://www.youtube.com/@peppernguyen

https://filmot.com/channel/UCgxMNrLwuajfNh2ysPf6qWQ/0/Pepper+Nguyen

Thank you in advance. Help would mean more than you can know.

I want to view old questions I asked on Yahoo Answers from 2010-2016, but the site was shut down in 2021. I tried accessing the archive at https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_yahooanswers but I’m confused on how to access the data. The Wayback Machine doesn’t allow me to use the search function, I don’t know which files to download, and there’s 35 TB of data which would be impossible to sort through. How would I be able to find my old posts? Thank you!

Indian draft data protection rules include deletion of social media accounts upon death, unless relatives are nominated.

This is bad, like very bad. The proposed draft law in its current form only prescribes deletions and purges of inactive accounts when the users die. There should be a clause where archiving or lock/suspension (like Facebook's memorialization feature) are described as alternative methods to account deletion.

If the law as it is is pushed through and passed by the legislature the understanding of the past will be destroyed in the long term, just like how the fires in LA have already did to the archives of the notable composer Arnold Schoenberg.

Please go to this page if you want to put in your feedback, especially if you're an Indian citizen.

Anybody ever upload the Imgur rip before the purge online??

Hi, in the archive team wiki for niconico it says all metadata was saved, but what kind of metadata? thumbnails, descriptions, titles?

Is the data on this archive the same I can find on archive.org?

I've recently become interested in the Chinese text "The 36 Stratagems" and stumbled upon a great resource on the 36 Stratagem Wiki page. However, I've hit a roadblock - most of the entries on the archived site (https://web.archive.org/web/20100802011244/http://www.cc-only.com/36ji.htm) are missing.

I tried to contact the owner of the original site through the archived contact page (https://web.archive.org/web/20100327124642/http://www.cc-only.com/), but unfortunately, I couldn't get in touch.

As I can read Chinese, I'm hoping someone can help me search for alternative archives or sources that may have the complete text. I've been relying on Google Translate, but I'm not sure how to effectively search for this text in Chinese.

If anyone has any leads or suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance for your help!

Searching for new links. Artist nuked page now I'm looking for backups. Any help appreciated

Hi, a journalist in India named Mukesh Chandrakar was murdered recently, probably for exposing corruption in the public works department and embezzlement of government funds. You can read more about the guy in the news link below, but if you want to spare your sanity I'd strongly recommend avoiding articles that describe his cause of death or his autopsy (it's very gruesome).

This journalist used to run a somewhat popular youtube channel, which contains videos of him doing stuff that nobody else did - like going all the way into Naxal regions to report on issues there. I'm concerned that someone might get access to his account and delete his videos. I do have tube archivist setup at home, but I do not have any storage left on my computer to download more, so I am posting this here in tne hope that someone can archive this before it is too late. If you are willing to seed a public torrent, I am buying a lot more storage and will be able to take them off of you in ~2 weeks. (just in case they get deleted in the interim - otherwise, I'll be able to download from YouTube itself too, I guess)

Link to youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@bastarjunction

All of his videos are in Hindi. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/who-was-mukesh-chandrakar-a-bastar-journalist-found-dead-in-a-septic-tank-101735954472790.html

Hi, I haven’t posted here before but someone suggested I do because of a post I made in another sub.

Searching through the history I see lots of old posts on the topic so I know you guys are already aware.

During trumps first term there was lots of concern about climate science data being lost.

My post in the other sub was specific to voter data being lost, from this last election, and all previous elections, but any and all data under this regime is vulnerable.

Sorry for making a unsolicited PSA in your sub, I just saw you guys haven’t talked about data being vulnerable to Trump recently.

Hello to everybody! It's the first post that i make here

Well, in short, I don't live in the United States and I'm a Brazilian researcher and also a Carmen Miranda researcher (yes, that exists).

I really like Reddit and this sub for lost medias was recommended to me.

I'll be honest: I'm looking for material about Brazil between 1930-1950 and also about Carmen Miranda, because it's very hard to find. I've been researching her for almost 15 years and since she lived in the US for a long time, it's very difficult to find material online and often even communicate via email. For example, she did many programs on NBC and CBS during the 1950s, but unfortunately I haven't been able to locate much of this material.

For example, I've been looking a lot for Milton Berle's programs (Texaco Star Theater), but the collections at the Library of Congress, UCLA, and some other universities don't have many of the episodes I'm looking for, but I know that many of them exist.

I'll leave a YouTube link to a program that aired a special about Carmen Miranda here in Brazil and showed excerpts from several television programs she participated in, but there is no documentation within the network that mentions the source of the files (apparently it came from internal use, researchers or collectors) and I couldn't find anything about these programs. I searched WorldCat and other places, but nothing. 20th Century Fox seems to have some programs because of the collection they bought from an old network in California, but I couldn't access them because this material was transferred to Disney.

YOUTUBE LINK (ENABLE ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

I would like help finding some of this material, mainly from television, home videos, silent films and everything else, so I can take another step in my research on it. Could anyone help me with this?

And regarding Brazilian material in general from this time, the following is true: due to the "good neighbor policy" between the United States and Brazil, a lot of material was recorded and reported about both countries, including several feature films that are now lost here in Brazil that were shown in the United States en masse, often subtitled or dubbed, so I would like to have a chance to find this material or get an idea of ​​where to look.

I found a lot of material in the Library of Congress that until then had been lost to us, but I would also like to know if you could give me any tips on where else to look.

The main television programs I am looking for are these:

• 1948.10.05 - Texaco Star Theatre (I have only the master audio recording)
• 1949.12.09 - We, the people
• 1950.11.21 - Texaco Star Theatre (N/E)
• 1951.02.12 - Hollywood Breakfast Club TV Show
• 1951.02.28 - Don McNeill's TV Club
• 1951.11.06 - Texaco Star Theatre
• 1951.11.18 - What’s my line? (LOST but someone told me that may exist just the audio from the radio)
• 1951.12.05 - Miss U.S, Television Contest Finals
• 1951.12.16 - Colgate Comedy Hour
• 1952.02.24 - Colgate Comedy Hour (UCLA has it but i cannot view or duplicate because NBC don't allow me)
• 1953.09.13 - Toast of the Town
• 1953.10.08 - Eye Opener
• 1953.11.25 - Thanksgiving-Eve Show (MDA Telethon)

I understand that some of the shows are on Youtube and Archive.org but they are shows that I already have. I also look a lot for footage that contains her like Movietonews or Citytones. She performed a lot so it is very common to have home videos, home recordings, Movietones and other things like that too, but there is no formal listing of this material so it is very difficult to find anything related to this because I do not have specific dates, only titles. For exemple:

• 1939.05.17 - Carmen Miranda arrives in New York (NEWSREEL)
• 1939.XX.XX - Stork Club – New York City (UCLA, i'm not autorized to duplicate)
• 1941.05.12 - Hollywood Newsreel - Erskine Johnson (NEWSREEL)
• 1941.05.21 - Good neighbor day in movieland (UCLA, i'm not autorized to duplicate)
• 1943.XX.XX - Command Performance Special Latin America
• 1945.06.09 - Home Coming (NEWSREEL)
• 1948.09.04 - Movie stars join circus for charity (UCLA, i'm not autorized to duplicate)
• 1948.09.23 - Movie Stars Arrives Laguardia Field
• 1953.XX.XX - In-house Production CBS (Ed Sullivan) (Exists but CBS don't answer me)

Well... Could someone help me with this? I would really like to watch this material because it is very important for my research. Thank you to those who read this far and I hope I don't get banned. Thanks!

Edit: I put the wrong date on Texaco Star Theater, the fist date (1949.01.18) is wrong, the correct is 1948.10.05

Sorry for new account, old one wqs deleted for racism

Back in 2015, my classmate made some minecraft videos that i would like to watch as nostalgia, but he deleted the videos and i cant contact him at all, is there any way to get those videos? I dont know what was the videos name but i know the channels name

Okay so for context i started playing Roblox back in 2018 and i wanted to see the old clients from back then (Mostly for nostalgic reasons) but there is no 2018 Roblox client downloads anywhere for some odd reason. I found one on archive.roblonuim.com but when i tried to install it it just installed as a .tar file and i couldn't seem to open it. Does anyone have the 2018 Roblox clients?

The majority of insecure HTTP websites are likely parked and/or abandoned domains — I have a reasonable amount of experience, having used the Firefox's HTTPS-only mode since its introduction in late 2020.

The only major websites I recall having encountered are specific Wikidot wikis (e.g. http://darksouls.wikidot.com/), Hardcore Gaming 101 and Projekti Lönnrot (a Project Gutenberg-like undertaking for Finnish literature).

One list on Github; seems unmaintained.

Is it just for me? See screenshot - any page I submit to Archive.is, it gets stuck at this "Loading" page with nothing happening after that.

https://preview.redd.it/7oqc14bwpy8e1.png?width=1639&format=png&auto=webp&s=e156cb75253ce16246ff796e7093a735124895e7

hi, can someone please help me? i’ve been trying to search for these videos for years, but to no avail. they’re either deleted, privated, or copyrighted, and the wayback machine is no help. thank you so much. this is just for nostalgia.

list of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Jg2etdI08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBTAuwM74OQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkC4xAJLER4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUg8hoYS9zQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEhxMlcW3P4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGkGxvhazmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9nW9VlNTUo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bEsWByltPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1oDY8iNLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQNHCWKRRP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iO6AsqC0Oo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9icdpHswaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUsrvTrTAz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcxUgJDOlVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJjWSZiF-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBTpOtoHdxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pm0-rNmSyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNqeaE3T0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rXb516Gmc8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HvOW3IwqxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QImYeckBhd0

Is it possible? I had many good songs, all gone now..

At 2017 I got a youtube channel where I posted minecraft videos regularly. I gave up this channel a while later and decided to give it to a friend, who was embarrassed about my minecraft videos bcz he would start posting about PUBG and his "pubg friends" would bully him lol. Then, instead of making all my videos private, he simply deleted it. I didn't care about it at the moment, but now I want those videos back.

I tried wayback machine but there's nothin. Do u guys have any tips for me?

edit: the channel still exists and I have access to it

So the mobile game Disney Mirrorverse is shutting down its servers in three days. Is there any way of archiving it? Even if the game can't be playable due to the servers no longer existing, is it possible to extract assets from it?

Hi, I need help finding a certain YouTube channel ID. This channel has been terminated and I cant find it at all costs since I also want to grab all video titles and URLs from its channel as well, the channel is called Gummy Bear Fast Speed. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. thanks!