Viking Burial is an archival project to preserve Technoviking-related videos from YouTube and other platforms, making the beloved Internet icon “cease & desist proof.”
Background
Technoviking was one of the Internet’s first viral video stars. The original 2000 video captured a shirtless, muscular man dancing commandingly at the Fuckparade street rave in Berlin.
In 2013, the man in the video sued the original filmmaker Matthias Fritsch for invasion of privacy, eventually winning the case. This led to many Technoviking videos being removed from YouTube.
The Project
To preserve this important piece of Internet history, we created automated tools to:
- Monitor YouTube for Technoviking-related uploads
- Download and archive videos before they could be removed
- Mirror content to multiple backup locations
- Maintain a searchable database of archived material
Collaborators
- Jamie Wilkinson - Development
- FAT Lab - Production
Links
A digital preservation project, 2013