Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
I mentioned that one of our Thanksgiving guests (my nephew Brian) flew in from Calcutta, India where he had spent six weeks training people to do some of the necessary bookkeeping tasks his company does in Chicago. (He explained that the idea was that while one shift of folks could do work during daylight hours in Chicago, which is the CST time zone, and then leave messages for the folks in India, some 12 hours ahead, to pick up where they left off.)
Anyway, in our discussion of his time in India and while viewing his pictures, I learned that it is no longer "Calcutta" but is now "Kalkata." Sure enough. According to Wikipedia they changed the name back in 2001. Shoot. Why wasn't I informed?
At least this was a peaceful change and not one brought about by a tyrannical regime or anything. (See Burma vs Myanmar.)
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