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For whatever reason, my site (Hollywood/Academy/4430) disappeared from Geocities before the mass archival happened. I certainly didn't delete it. I search for

For whatever reason, my site (Hollywood/Academy/4430) disappeared from Geocities before the mass archival happened. I certainly didn't delete it. I search for it once a year, hope springs eternal.

jacquesm 9y ago
Ai. I searched a bit for you, as well in the original crawls but to no avail. Most likely there were very few inbound links to that site which meant it wasn't discovered before it got wiped. I was still archiving stuff long after Geocities had officially shut down, for weeks new stuff turned up. 4428 is there, the next one after that is 4460, I suspect that if it had been archived you'd have found it by now. Have you checked Jason Scott's torrent of all things geocities as well?
mod 9y ago
I similarly look for the first page I ever created. I was maybe 14 years old and created a pretty thorough Goldeneye 007 fan site, with walkthroughs etc, on angelfire. I distinctly remember a misspelling in my url--- /liscensetokill --but I can't be sure of my parent category anymore. I think /mi5/ Haven't seen it in over 15 years, though.
- Sleeep 9y ago
  I was in geocities/South Beach/lounge but I can't remember the number and it annoys me. I know for a fact archive.org indexed it but they didn't at all after geocities moved to ~ urls. (That was after the Yahoo buyout IIRC)
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    Do you remember any text fragment? I can grep for it. Either that or you can spend an hour clicking :) : http://reocities.com/southbeach/lounge/ http://reocities.com/southbeach/lounge/
    - Sleeep 9y ago
      Thanks for the link! It looks like reocities didn't pick it up. (I downloaded all 250 links and grepped myself)
      - jacquesm 9y ago
        Clever. :( Sorry!
wila 9y ago
LOL, same here. Yosemite/6022 Looks like I even got some of the images on disk here, but no html. Jacques, I never knew it was you behind reocities, thanks for saving a large part of the old content geocities! The story on what you did at creating reocities alone is a worthwhile read. [1] [1] http://reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html http://reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html edit: Just found again (and remembered) web.archive.org has 2 of its pages, so some of it is still out there.

For whatever reason, my site (Hollywood/Academy/4430) disappeared from Geocities before the mass archival happened. I certainly didn't delete it. I search for it once a year, hope springs eternal.

jacquesm 9y ago

Ai. I searched a bit for you, as well in the original crawls but to no avail. Most likely there were very few inbound links to that site which meant it wasn't discovered before it got wiped. I was still archiving stuff long after Geocities had officially shut down, for weeks new stuff turned up. 4428 is there, the next one after that is 4460, I suspect that if it had been archived you'd have found it by now. Have you checked Jason Scott's torrent of all things geocities as well?

mod 9y ago

I similarly look for the first page I ever created. I was maybe 14 years old and created a pretty thorough Goldeneye 007 fan site, with walkthroughs etc, on angelfire. I distinctly remember a misspelling in my url--- /liscensetokill --but I can't be sure of my parent category anymore. I think /mi5/ Haven't seen it in over 15 years, though.

Sleeep 9y ago
I was in geocities/South Beach/lounge but I can't remember the number and it annoys me. I know for a fact archive.org indexed it but they didn't at all after geocities moved to ~ urls. (That was after the Yahoo buyout IIRC)
- jacquesm 9y ago
  Do you remember any text fragment? I can grep for it. Either that or you can spend an hour clicking :) : http://reocities.com/southbeach/lounge/ http://reocities.com/southbeach/lounge/
  - Sleeep 9y ago
    Thanks for the link! It looks like reocities didn't pick it up. (I downloaded all 250 links and grepped myself)
    - jacquesm 9y ago
      Clever. :( Sorry!

wila 9y ago

LOL, same here. Yosemite/6022 Looks like I even got some of the images on disk here, but no html. Jacques, I never knew it was you behind reocities, thanks for saving a large part of the old content geocities! The story on what you did at creating reocities alone is a worthwhile read. [1] [1] http://reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html http://reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html edit: Just found again (and remembered) web.archive.org has 2 of its pages, so some of it is still out there.