geocities

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Internet/Hypertext Timeline(geocitiesarchive.com)
2 points by geocities 7y ago|0 comments
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by geocities 7y ago
I have to agree, installing the news reader and configuring the servers was almost a "barrier to entry" :D
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by geocities 7y ago
Does anyone still use newsgroups any more?
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Out-of-band data Java socket implementation(geocitiesarchive.org)
1 points by geocities 7y ago|3 comments
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by geocities 7y ago
"We should have done a much better job with preservation." - and that is exactly it, people in the future will look back and shake their heads at the callousness with which we just deleted early history
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by geocities 7y ago
The 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.... Yaho
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by geocities 7y ago
There's not going to be everything unfortunately. What was your site on archive.org?
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by geocities 7y ago
I did, notepad and Netscape was where it was at..
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by geocities 7y ago
It's insane how all the early internet has effectively been destroyed with absolutely no recourse of ever getting any of it back :(
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by geocities 7y ago
Yeah, 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
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by geocities 7y ago
You could try the archiveteams downloads https://archive.org/download/2009-archiveteam-geocities-part...
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by geocities 7y ago
Hi, 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.
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by geocities 7y ago
Wow, that is an awesome site!!
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by geocities 7y ago
It'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
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by geocities 7y ago
Hi, the source was the torrent which we needed to patch up with other sources
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by geocities 7y ago
We are trying to archive and patch together as much as possible given the sources. I don't think there is a full complete archive available anymore :( Thanks for the feedback :)
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by geocities 7y ago
The Geocities Archive Project is slowly tagging old Geocities images using AI.
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Geocities Archive(geocitiesarchive.org)
147 points by geocities 7y ago|90 comments
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by geocities 7y ago
In honour of the days of crazy colour schemes, flashing images, tiled backgrounds and guest books, we have released the Geocities Archive Project at https://www.geocitiesarchive.org Geocities was a free web hosting service that
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Relive the Horrors of the Early Internet with the Geocities Archive Project(geocitiesarchive.org)
4 points by geocities 7y ago|1 comments