Archivist Saves 172 Deleted BBC Websites

[Stephen Byers]

Not content with deleting / wiping episodes of long loved t.v. and radio series - the BBC has not yet learnt its lesson. Despite wasting thousands of pounds (millions?) of licence fee payers' hard-earned with the promotion of offensive religious-based reality shows (know what which ones I mean?) recently it has tried to save a few measly pounds in wiping 172 websites from its servers.

Luckily an ex-BBC engineer (allegedly) has spidered the Beeb's websites and archived them all in a matter of 24 hours or so.

These are described here

www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-torrent-archive-websites

(Moderators - please ignore the 'banned' word in the URL link - this subject is too important to ignore)

[Hugh Pearson]

This is an article from 11th February 2011 and is interesting none the less. Unfortunately, some of the links in the article are dead now.

For some of the old BBC websites like Cult, I like to use the WayBack Machine to access what remains eg. ->

wayback.archive.org/web/20050301034314/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/

Would still like to be able to see what he had archived though.

[John Smith]

Also here: archive.org/details/bbc-panic-closing-archives

[Hugh Pearson]

Cheers John - that's what I needed!

[Stephen Byers]

Can we get a definitive list?

[Hugh Pearson]

PART 1 - Here are some screen shots of the list and their sizes.

BBC website list1.tiff (91.76 KB)BBC website list2.tiff (97.61 KB)BBC website list3.tiff (92.85 KB)

[Hugh Pearson]

PART 2 screen shots

BBC website list4.tiff (92.92 KB)BBC website list5.tiff (91.14 KB)BBC website list6.tiff (54.6 KB)