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I'm glad that they're not immediately deleting existing sites. I have old geocities sites up that I never really backed up (from when I was a teen) and I have

• gamache 17y ago
  A few months back, I wanted to get some orphaned files from my ancient Geocities page. I remembered my username (now of the form username.geo) but the password wasn't coming to me. I tried to recover my password but none of the 20 email addresses I gave them was right. Eventually, after being on the phone with customer service and brainstorming every email address I have ever had, the password came back to me -- the original, four-letter dictionary word assigned as the default when I signed up in early 1995. So, uh, just think about it too much for a few hours and it might come back to you.
  • chops 17y ago
    Conveniently, I don't have anything that's inaccessible from the main page, so a simple wget --mirror http://www.geocities.com/my/path was enough to get everything I needed. Stripping out the auto-added ads was easy enough to not be a big deal. But hey, if you can actually remember your passwords, more power to you. Maybe if I get bored, I'll try to figure it out and see if I had anything I had uploaded there for posterity, but I don't think so.
• akkartik 17y ago
  I wonder what'll happen to web 2.0 when web 3.0 or whatever rolls around. I fear all these permalinks aren't so permanent after all.
  • chops 17y ago
    On a long enough timescale, everything dies, including hyperlinks.