With how popular the futaba board is I thought there might be an archive of some kind for it in a zip format. I hate missing posts so I was wondering is there someone who actively archives it, in it's entirety or at least the model kits and wallpaper image boards? I've tried googling but "futaba archive" doesn't return any pages with what I'm looking for.
That's like asking for the internet on handy CD format...
yeah that's exactly what I'm asking for, the entire internet on a CD, thanks for ignoring the part of my post where I asked if 2 sub boards were ever archived too you're a huge help =P I'm not expecting it to be downloadable straight from a website but a torrent on some site is conceivable, I've seen other websites archived in this manner.
Why don't you archive it yourself?
>I've seen other websites archived in this manner.
Futaba is not phpbb/vbulletin nor a gallery. Not only do old threads get deleted, but any attempt to archive the contents would be filled with duplicate images. On top of that, in the years since it started an archive would have likely grown into the terabyte range. It's a constant stream of images and posts. Just what kind of archive were you expecting?
Now a 2channel model kit board archive, that you might be able to find.
There have been archives of western image board.
However, those archives are now dead. There is a reason for this.
Furhtermore, there are Futaba archives, if you know where to look. However, most of these archives only contain the text and thumbnails of notable threads.
Asking for archives is image really is missing the point. Image boards do not exists as a leeching resource.
>>5
Well, if the duplicate images are actually the same file, you could discard any images with the same MD5 as another already in the archive. Besides that, I'm sure there are programs out there that will do fuzzy-comparison of two images and tell you if they're essentially the same. Look up the literature on the subject.
>>7
It's disturbing that they probably do :(
To follow up on what >>6 said, a long time ago there used to be a website called ia.desync.com (later 0chan.org) which used some sort of crawler script to download all the images off of 4chan and a few other boards that don't come to mind now. When dealing with duplicate images he implemented what >>5 said regarding MD5's. Unfortunatley the site doesn't exist anymore because he ran into problems.
As far as I know problem he encountered was not bandwidth, but the fact that he had so many illegal (child porn probably being at the top) and copyrighted images that he was at huge legal risk. I'm 99% sure that is what caused him to take the site down, since several times he was complaining about legal threats from HentaiKey.
At one point he announced that he had over a quarter million images on his server, which is an insane amount. That was two or three years ago, and since anon-imageboards have grown so much since then, I doubt there will be any more image archives in the future, especially since CP has become a worsening problem. I hope that helps anyone who was wondering.
God forbid they see us all posting "lol internet" and "bump" several thousand times.
No one will ever read this post, and yet I still feel the need to post it.
Anyways, I found >>10's comment kind of funny:
>since anon-imageboards have grown so much since then, I doubt there will be any more image archives in the future
Oh, how wrong you were. See:
Image-only
*4scrape (dead, but still)
*4walled
*some other site that was shit
Entire Board Archives (admittedly only archiving thumbnails)
*easymodo
*probably some more
It was possible! Granted, an attempt to archive larger boards, or to archive the images and the posts, would probably end in tears. Even if it was private access, just downloading all of that data would use ridiculous amounts of bandwidth, cost ridiculous amounts of processing time for MD5/other checksum compares (I would assume, with a large enough database), and let's not get started on storage space.
In a few years, however, who knows what will be possible. Anyways, to anyone who's reading this, it's good to know that there are other people that share my pastime (that is, reading threads buried deep in the archives of random BBSes)
>>12
Hi I read your post.
Four years later, we have multiple archives offering full size images. As of today, http://ar.vyrd.net/ has a list of these archives. According to that site, the only "boards without comprehensive public archives" are /b/, /gif/. There was a /b/ archive briefly but as you could expect, it was shut down due to CP. (It was hosted at fuuka.worldathleticproject.org by a guy named nemdiggers, if i remember correctly)
There are also a few other personal archives that I've seen people mention or link to on /g/.
Some of these archives even have communities themselves thanks to "ghost posting," the ability to make internal posts in archived threads.
>On top of that, in the years since it started an archive would have likely grown into the terabyte range.
According to http://ns1758.ca/winch/winchest.html, the world's first TB hard drive was released on 2007 March 19 (almost a year after >>5 ), and cost $370.
Today, hard drives with triple the size are available at less than a third of that, and 1TB HDD's are about $60.
>As of today, http://ar.vyrd.net/ has a list of these archives
Note: not all of these archives offer full images. Foolz for example, regularly prunes full images.