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As I understand it, GeoCities actually cooperated to some extent with the backup team that was trying to preserve the content, and didn't take steps to keep peo
by ObviousScience 12y ago
As I understand it, GeoCities actually cooperated to some extent with the backup team that was trying to preserve the content, and didn't take steps to keep people from backing up content.
- db48x 12y agoGeoCities was entirely unmaintained; there was apparently only one person at Yahoo who was paid to do anything with it at all, and who couldn't even answer questions such as how many users there actually were. The primary pain point when spidering it was that each GeoCities user had a tiny hourly bandwidth cap; to do the job right the spiders had to keep track of the error responses that they got so that they could go back later in the hope of getting the real content rather than the error message.