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Geocities Archive
- geocities 7y agoThe Geocities Archive Project is slowly tagging old Geocities images using AI.
- realshowbiz 7y agoIs this really necessary? Wouldn’t compiling a complete archive be a good first step?
- grepthisab 7y agoI'm getting runtime errors when searching, internal errors I as a user shouldn't be able to see outside of some sort of debug mode. FYI
- geocities 7y agoYeah, our little project is getting quite a few hits at the moment - I may have to upgrade the hosting lol. Sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't really think anyone was that interested in Geocities anymore :D
- sv123 7y agoI wish I could remember what my old geocities username was.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoSadly whatever my old website was, it was not popular enough to make any archives. I feel like it was my first name, or some combination of my first and last name.
- realshowbiz 7y agosame here! it was my “awesome homepage” and sadly I can’t find any trace of it
- sp332 7y agoIs it possible you went with "giancarlo" instead of "giancarlos"? I don't mean to be silly but I see 232 files with giancarlo and only 1 with giancarlos.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoNo, Giancarlos is my first name and I have never used Giancarlo. Thats a good question nonetheless!
- xtracto 7y agoSame, my old Geocities site was not popular enough to be archived by these spiders. However, by chance I found it in the Internet archive. It was so cool to see my programming tutorials, and text about 3 or 4 games I developed (in TurboBasic and later C++ with DJGPP and Allegro) when I was 12 years old. Why did I decide to put a programming related page into SunsetStrip, I have no clue... although at that time my English was no that good and I had no clue of the cultural background of the "neighborhoods" so, they all seemed equal. It might be that your website is also in the archive.
- prawn 7y agoCouldn't find mine either. I had a Pantera fan site and a joke-tribute page to Victoria Bitter even though I never drank it.
- mleonhard 7y agoIt might be on archive.org. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/19990903001822/http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6267/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990903001822/http://www.geocit...
- cryptoz 7y agoIn 1998-1999 or so, starwars.com and Homestead teamed up to make the fan.starwars.com/ wysisyg fan websites. I loved mine and it's been gone for ~20 years, with seemingly no chance at all of an archive. Hardly anyone seems to remember these in the first place, star wars fans and nerds included. Maybe some day.
- geocities 7y agoIt's insane how all the early internet has effectively been destroyed with absolutely no recourse of ever getting any of it back :(
- stebann 7y agoI feel the same that you describe. I was a kid in early 2000's and many things I used to access were not preserved in anyway. I'm so sad about it. That's why I mirror the sites nowadays. The problem is that sites are bigger now are harder to spider sometimes.
- empyrical 7y agoDo you remember what your username was there? There's a slight chance the WayBack Machine got it https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fan.starwars.com/* https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fan.starwars.com/* edit: oh wow, looks like these archives seem to all be broken because of the javascript they used
- cryptoz 7y agoInteresting! I think I found my username there, but yeah, nothing loads :(. It's probably gone forever, unless someone close to it specifically backed it all up. Oh well.
- codesushi42 7y agoMy old website is not here because I used Tripod. But it was worth it.
- krapp 7y agoTripod is still around. I still have an account there from 2001, but unfortunately nothing is hosted there now but a default landing page. It still has a cgi-bin, but I have no idea if perl scripts will run in it. And surprisingly enough, Angelfire still exists. I just learned they're both sharing a database being run by Lycos because I tried to recover an old Angelfire account and it complained that my new password was the same as my Tripod account.
- codesushi42 7y agoTripod had more storage and offered cgi bin when Geocities had none, IIRC.
- krapp 7y agoI can't remember if I actually got a forum from Matt's Script Archive running on Tripod, but I do remember writing by own horrible text-based forum that no one else used. Now it looks like you have to pay for FTP. Sad.
- jonshariat 7y agoI think I had one on AngelFire :)
- roadbeats 7y agoMy website is also not here unfortunately...
- sosuke 7y agoWoah this was a Geocities website?! Chrono Cross fan pages. https://www.geocitiesarchive.org/arclc/z/u/zulwarn1705//home.html# https://www.geocitiesarchive.org/arclc/z/u/zulwarn1705//home...
- cr0sh 7y agoWow - that's actually quite polished for a geocities site and time period...
- CM30 7y agoThere were quite a few sites with that level of polish on free hosting services at the time. Usually by people who either didn't have the means to pay for hosting/a domain name or simply didn't see the need to at that time. Came across quite a few of them when I used AOL's free hosting back in the early 90s, or Tripod/Angelfire/whatever.
- geocities 7y agoWow, that is an awesome site!!
- giancarlostoro 7y agoTripod allowed me to make some good sites back then.
- sp332 7y agoOne Terabyte of Kilobyte Age has been blogging about individual pages and trends across Geocities pages. https://blog.geocities.institute/ https://blog.geocities.institute/
- lain 7y agoIs the source of this the ~900GB torrent, or is there another Geocities backup?
- geocities 7y agoHi, the source was the torrent which we needed to patch up with other sources
- anthony_doan 7y agoI'm surprise Angelfire and Tripod is still up. One of my first website was on Xoom sadly they went away. Geocities had a lot of fanfictions and I would go around the webrings to jump to different fanfic websites. Those were good times. I also remembered I had to use ftp to upload pictures onto those free hosting website.
- omnibrain 7y agoAt one point Tripod also lost a lot of sites in an incident. I know because my first homepage was among them...
- fortran77 7y agoMalwarebytes is blocking that site.
- geocities 7y agoHi, yes, I think this is because a few of the old Geocities sites had zip files which allowed you to open CD trays and other "kewl hacks" back in the day. We have run malwarebytes over all the files and they are coming up clean. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/713c45d3ac7560847f48cc1078b5c92d11f6b0d92d560e4a450471f344e4eb7f/detection https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/713c45d3ac7560847f48cc107...
- fortran77 7y agoYeah! I clicked through anyway. It seems safe.
- StavrosK 7y agoSuch a shame so many Web 1.0 websites went away. You can click "random username" and get a feel for what the Old Web was like. Props to this project for rescuing this many sites, although I'm kind of sad they couldn't get them all...
- pwython 7y agoI feel like oocities.org has way more archived (except my Final Fantasy page from 1998).
- marpstar 7y agothis is how I feel about every Geocities archive I've seen...everything except MY page. Mine was up well into 2001, but the Wayback Machine is the only site that has even a trace of it.
- geocities 7y agoIt's a real shame; I had a Geocities Site and it was lost as well. When I came across the torrent I thought I would try and rescue as much as possible
- tjr225 7y agoI wonder how many of us got our start editing html on geocities/angelfire/tripod to create yet another Final Fantasy fan site...
- geocities 7y agoI did, notepad and Netscape was where it was at..
- codesushi42 7y agoAnyone remember when Geocities was a virtual city with neighborhoods? I remember having to click around a visualization of a neighborhood block, and having to reserve a homepage. Homepages were limited per neighborhood. Each neighborhood had a name that was part of the URL path to the page. That was very early in Geocities' life, and the artificial scarcity they tried to create didn't last long. But that's the story behind the name "Geocities".
- derefr 7y agoI've always thought it'd be neat to return to that model for modern centralized blogging services (e.g. Wordpress.com). No need for it to be a literal representation of backend sharding or what-have-you; just more of a skeuomorphism. Taking an approach like: 1. Allow everyone to self-assign a neighbourhood when they sign up (not with Geocities' interest-based neighbourhoods, but rather just a set of arbitrary ones, like MMO server shards); 2. Use some distance metric (maybe after your blog has five posts or so to data-mine) to calculate proximity, assigning people "street addresses" within that neighbourhood; 3. Let people know who their digital "neighbours" are, and encourage people to help out their neighbours, send them welcome messages, etc. Maybe invite people to message their neighbours when the neighbour's blog has been inactive for a while, to find out if they're okay. Other cute slice-of-life-y not-at-all-just-ways-to-increase-stickiness things. ;) (#2 would be especially interesting, I think, if new blogs could show up "between" existing blogs, such that one of your previously-most-proximate neighbours is suddenly two spaces down and you have a new even-closer closest neighbour. Without this.)
- dangrossman 7y agoI remember that I learned HTML from http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2090 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2090 -- I can still remember the URL, in the Athens neighborhood -- but I haven't seen the actual webpage in 23 years. I'd love to find an archived copy.
- echelon 7y agoAnecdotes like this make me so sad at what we've lost. I spent so much of my early teenage years on Geocities, Angelfire, EzBoards, AIM, ICQ. It's all but vanished. We should have done a much better job with preservation. I'm hoping someone will one day bump into un-formatted hard drives from some of these old web hosting companies and resurrect the content. It's weird to feel so much nostalgia for intangible things. It's also weird to reminisce about youth. Despite all of the new tech, and the wealth and career I've built, and the people I've met, I sometimes wish I could relive the early 2000s. It feels like all of the adventure and newness has been sucked out of the world. And then I snap out of it.
- amatecha 7y agoWeak, doesn't seem to have my sites which are indexed on archive.org :\
- geocities 7y agoThere's not going to be everything unfortunately. What was your site on archive.org?
- broabprobe 7y agothere are many geocities backups but I have yet to see a backup of the hotbot.com pages
- kylek 7y agoOblig- the Internet Archive’s gif search engine, GifCities: https://gifcities.org/ https://gifcities.org/
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- echelon 7y agoThis is awesome and brings back so many memories! Thanks a ton for doing this. What methodology did you use to construct this backup? As an aside, is there any chance whatever remnant of Yahoo still exists might have disks lying around from the Geocities days that weren't formatted? Do you think we could go about getting them?
- geocities 7y agoThe sites are from the torrent and also from the archive team as well. I had to write some code that went through all sites and update the links. I also at the same time tried to just extract the html body and use that for indexing.... Yahoo! must still have the original sites. Surely they could just put them online as a "Read Only" version. They would have nothing to lose
- echelon 7y ago> Yahoo! must still have the original sites. Are you sure? It cost money to maintain hardware and infrastructure.
- burlesona 7y agoJust browsing around I stumbled onto this awesome page: https://www.geocitiesarchive.org/arclc/h/u/humehwy31/aug1.html https://www.geocitiesarchive.org/arclc/h/u/humehwy31/aug1.ht... This is someone doing an early form of blogging, chronicling a road trip all across Australia, with a bunch of photos. I love how simple the website is, and how the author took time to explain what links were and what you should do to navigate through the posts. That's the kind of stuff that was so neat to explore back in the day. What a trip down memory lane!
- Lucadg 7y agoI was looking for my travel diary of Australia I wrote on Geocities in 2000 and didn't find it. Then I saw your comment and it made my day:) Also didn't find my Praguecheapflats geocities site which was basically a precursor of Airbnb from 2001 and allowed me to travel the world full time for 10 years. Geocities was really amazing for me, a non technical guy who just wanted to put stuff online.
- 29athrowaway 7y agoLarge pictures took long time to load with a dial-up connection.
- app4soft 7y agoJust tried Geocities Archive — it can't find archive of Makoto's page[0] with amazing addons for free YSFlight simulator[1] ;( [0] http://www.geocities.jp/room_makoto/main/ysfs/ http://www.geocities.jp/room_makoto/main/ysfs/ [1] https://ysflight.org/download https://ysflight.org/download
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoReocities disappeared?
- zimbatm 7y agoToday's equivalent is https://neocities.org/ https://neocities.org/ . Free 5MB account to upload your raw HTML&CSS. If you feel nostalgic, have a look at https://districts.neocities.org/ https://districts.neocities.org/
- jaclaz 7y agoNice! As a side note, there is also: https://www.oocities.org/ https://www.oocities.org/ And for some times (now dead) there was Reocities.com, some of which has been itself largely archived on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180308165314/http://www.reocities.com/neighborhoods https://web.archive.org/web/20180308165314/http://www.reocit...