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The Eye FAQ

The Eye is a website dedicated towards archiving and serving publicly available information.

We currently host large scale data-sets such as Reddit archives, old console video-games, operating systems and old software installation files.

How do I download these files?

The easiest way is to use wget, you can find a guide for using wget here

The command that will usually work for downloading files is wget -m -np -c -R 'index.html*' <your url here>

Wget can be installed from most distribution repos and the windows binary can be found here

Other helpful software to use includes jDownloader, DownThemAll, and GNU Parallel

I want to help, what can I do?

The best way to help us is by making a donation.

Our Bitcoin address is 1tHeEyEwgdLo3xz9Dmifit2Hg9CUYw5Sk

If you would like to make a PayPal or other donation, contact @-Archivist on discord or /u/-Archivist on reddit.

Why do you run this?

As put by the Archive Team, technology is business, and in business, money often takes priority over ethics. With the law perpetually lagging behind technology and business, there is often nothing between you and getting screwed over besides your own volition. Living without the knowledge of our past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Corporations do not contemplate their own inevitable end. At least, they don't do it in public, unless they are in really bad shape. When times are good, those thoughts are pushed away, and end users are encouraged to do the same. When times are bad, they tend to go very bad, very quickly - if you're lucky, you'll have an announcement. Your data is never totally safe. Backing up your data is always necessary, even if it's stored elsewhere.

The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests.

Our mission at The Eye is to preserve pieces of digital history. We are digital librarians.

You've removed some content, is it still available?

Yes, even if content is removed from our website, we can still get the data to you. If you would like to request deleted data, please join our discord and message an Admin or Helper. We require that you give us an endpoint to push data to. Endpoints we support are listed below.

Amazon Drive
Google Drive
Dropbox
FTP
SSH/SFTP

I believe you have infringed upon my content and I would like it removed

If you believe that your content has been infinged upon, please contact nem3sis (at) the-eye (dot) eu

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