Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is atarchiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by theWayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
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Tony Maglio | August 9, 2019 @ 6:34 AMLast Updated: August 9, 2019 @ 11:23 AM
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There’s more to WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre than even his impressive 6’5” 265-pound imposing frame suggests. For starters, when he was a kid, a young “Scottish Psychopath” (real name Andrew McLean Galloway IV) actually FOIA’d the FBI for some documents on UFOs. It worked.
Not a chance in hell this journalist/pro-wrestling fan wasn’t going to ask for all the details on that story.
“When I was 11, I believe I was at the time, I used to have a subscription to a magazine called X Factor in the U.K.,” McIntyre recalled to TheWrap. “It covered a lot of different areas: Conspiracy theories, unsolved crimes, strange insects, you know, ghosts, UFOs– such a variety of weird topics I was into at the time.”
Below is the meat and potatoes of McIntyre’s tale. The story is so good we didn’t want to chop it up at all.
There was an article about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that America had just signed at the time and you could get whatever documents you wanted under the Freedom of Information Act. And it gave you a sample letter, so I sent away to the FBI using my sample letter to get some documents.
Sure enough, I get home from school one day and my dad was just waiting for me — which is unusual for him ’cause he’s always at work, my mom had told him — and he had this giant stack of papers on his lap and he said, “Son, I have to talk to you.”
And I’m, like, “Oh my God, what has he found out? What have I done?”
And he said, “Why are the FBI–” he kept saying “in America”– ‘Why is the FBI in America sending you these documents?”
“I asked for them.”
“Why again, son, are the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation IN AMERICA, sending these to you?”
“Dad, because I asked for them.”
He’s like, “You’re 11 years old!”
Unfortunately, “a bunch” of what McIntyre got from the FBI (in America) was “blacked out,” he told us. “But it was pretty interesting, especially as a kid, to get that stuff.”
“I was a little strange kid,” McIntyre summed the whole experience up. Uh-huh.
You little strange kids can learn more about the Freedom of Information Act — and file your own requests —here.
Though he does not currently have an official “SummerSlam” match, McIntyre is attending this weekend’s pay-per-view event in Toronto, which will live-stream Sunday on WWE Network starting at 7/6c. On Friday, McIntyre will be signing autographs for (brave) fans at his Metro Toronto Convention Centre meet-and-greet on Friday beginning at 5 p.m. ET.
Readers can catch McIntyre regularly on WWE flagship series “Raw,” which airs Monday nights from 8-11 p.m. ET on USA Network.
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These days, WWE Superstars don't just make their TV money through in-ring performances on "Raw," "SmackDown Live" and WWE Network pay-per-views -- there's an entire universe of opportunity for popular pro wrestlers to earn big bucks on the small screen.
In our gallery are 11 WWE wrestlers with their own television shows. We've included a few select series from recent years to help paint a picture of the non-canvas landscape. A few: "Straight Up Steve Austin," "Fight Like a Girl" and "The Big Show Show" have yet to premiere.
For the purposes of this story, we only counted the three people who appeared in all 111 episodes of "Total Divas" -- Nikki Bella, Brie Bella and Natalya -- as it being *their* show, but we included the names of everyone who showed up in seven or more episodes of that one.
Wrestler(s): "Stone Cold" Steve Austin Show(s): "Straight Up Steve Austin," "Broken Skull Challenge," "Redneck Island" Network(s): USA, CMT, Country Music Television
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s new USA Network series premieres on Aug. 12
These days, WWE Superstars don't just make their TV money through in-ring performances on "Raw," "SmackDown Live" and WWE Network pay-per-views -- there's an entire universe of opportunity for popular pro wrestlers to earn big bucks on the small screen.
In our gallery are 11 WWE wrestlers with their own television shows. We've included a few select series from recent years to help paint a picture of the non-canvas landscape. A few: "Straight Up Steve Austin," "Fight Like a Girl" and "The Big Show Show" have yet to premiere.
For the purposes of this story, we only counted the three people who appeared in all 111 episodes of "Total Divas" -- Nikki Bella, Brie Bella and Natalya -- as it being *their* show, but we included the names of everyone who showed up in seven or more episodes of that one.
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
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