Made with Fable 5: Webshots deleted 14 million users' photos in 2012. Archive Team saved 105.9TB of it — then the extraction tooling died in 2016 and it's been locked ever since. After 10+ years of...

I was able to FINALLY finish this thing using Fable 5 this weekend. It works. Long time lurker, first real post. This one took me a decade. Quick history for anyone who wasn't there: Webshots was THE photo site before Facebook — 14 million users at peak. December 1, 2012, the final owners deleted everything. Archive Team ran an emergency Warrior crawl in the last weeks and hauled 105.9TB into the Internet Archive: 2,437 megawarc items in the webshots-freeze-frame collection. Then the second disaster, the on