#sim archive

I've successfully scraped all of the available Custom Content that was linked on GOS from Mediafire, Box, and SimFileShare. (Mirrors on 4shared not included)

Of course, I can't go back in time to retrieve things that are already long gone but here's a .zip of 49 GBs of content. This is everything from the beginning of GOS to September 2023.

Lilliana Dove <3

I'm sure some of you remember me mentioning a little extension for your browser called auto-archiver. Unfortunately, it was only set to run for Chrome/Edge. However, guess who ported it to Firefox!!

As I said, I can't archive all The Sims stuff. However, this is an automatic archiver. Bots can't get everything, everywhere, all the time. But with this? Anytime you visit any PUBLIC (it won't grab things that are private to you behind a login screen). If you visit a link, it'll be automatically be submitted for archival.

If enough simmers use this extension it means that we'll have perfect backups of all of our public sites and CC. All you have to do is browse like you always would.

So I don't know if you guys remember me talking about it but a few months back I started collecting some content from different people that came from the Exchange.

For those of you familiar, the exchange closed around 2012 and took with it a lot of content that couldn't be found elsewhere. While a lot of the content was primitive by today's standards it still was part of the community's history.

For that reason, today I'm sharing some of the content that I collected via Sim Archive Project (Yes, I *am* still working on that) and I'm asking that you share any content that you still have.

Attention longtime simmers: Please, again, if you have content that you feel likely cannot be elsewhere, let me know! This includes exchange content, exchange stories, and even TS1 BBS threads should you have screenshots. Anything you have for the first two games would be greatly appreciated. Sims, Stories, Homes, etc. If you're worried for any reason, the files can be shared completely anonymously. You just have to let me know!

...Also if you know someone who might have some of these things and you think they'd be interested then give us contact info and we'll reach out!

I've already reunited some users with content they made that was saved but hidden deep in Archive.org. VioletKitty's work from the TS1 site for example.

Over the next few days I'm going to try and share some of the things that I've recovered. (Super excited about that!). Today's offering is 2 GBs worth of old sim content that is a random assortment of sims.

If you're interested in ongoing efforts to archive not just this content but ALL sims content be sure to join us over and the SimArchive Discord and follow us here on Tumblr for a live updating list of what has been added to the archive.

Just a quick update: Sim Archive shouldn't be affected by Internet Archive losing the lawsuit. Everyone is acting like the entire website is gonna shutdown.

That being said, I have a local copy of all archived materials.

Yes! It is! I haven't had a lot of time to actually update it but I'm still adding things to the private group Google Drive. Paulette is really helping me out <3.

We don't have much TS3 stuff but we have a little. I need to start grabbing stuff from Tumblr. I think that GOS's mediafire stuff for TS3 may have been grabbed. I know that one of the sites that's hosted by Pescado has TS3 stuff. Also PMBD has some good old(er) TS3 stuff if you're looking for it. If you're looking for something specific just message me!