COLLECTED BY

Organization: Archive Team

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 at archiveteam.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 the Wayback 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.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20231220181816/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/windows-server-release-info

Windows Server release information

Article
12/23/2021

Beginning in September 2023, Windows Server has two primary release channels available: the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) and the Annual Channel (AC). The Long-Term Servicing Channel provides a longer-term option focusing on stability, whereas the Annual Channel provides more frequent releases. The Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) was retired on August 9, 2022.

With the Long-Term Servicing Channel, a new major version of Windows Server is typically released every 2-3 years. The more frequent releases of the AC enable customers to take advantage of innovation more quickly, with a focus on containers and microservices. For a detailed comparison, see Windows Server servicing channels.

The focus on virtualization, container, and microservice innovation continues with Azure Stack HCI, Windows containers, and AKS on Azure Stack HCI.

Windows Server major versions by servicing option

(All dates are listed in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DD)

Windows Server release	Servicing option	Editions	Availability	Build	Mainstream support end date	Extended support end date
Windows Server 2022	Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC)	Datacenter, Standard	2021-08-18	20348.169	2026-10-13	2031-10-14
Windows Server 2019 (version 1809)	Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC)	Datacenter, Essentials, Standard	2018-11-13	17763.107	2024-01-09	2029-01-09
Windows Server 2016 (version 1607)	Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC)	Datacenter, Essentials, Standard	2016-10-15	14393.0	Reached end of servicing 2022-01-11	2027-01-11

Note

Windows Server is governed by the Fixed Lifecycle Policy. See the Windows Lifecycle FAQ and Comparison of servicing channels for details regarding servicing requirements and other important information. To learn more about Windows Server’s Lifecycle Policy, see Windows Server Releases.

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