Comments on: Geocities: Lessons So Far

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:17:45 +0000

Hi guys, – Found you this morning after a quick search as to “Why” my geocities site was gone – when I went looking for some old “Army Pics” I had scanned in a long time ago… – I fall into the class of gone for 10 years – Problem: when Geocities sold out, and when my ISP closed, I lost two things. – my old e-mail address allowing me to reset my password, and the available – existant support staff to believe and help me reset my password. After that, I gave up, and it rotted there until it died… I did not even know they were closing, and I even told myself – I should probably go back up those old wedding, Army, and other photos before they someday disapear… – problem two. I got a few, but they would stop me downloading my own stuff due to bandwidth restrictions…
Problem 3, they are now gone altogether..

Thank you – HERO’s – for attempting to save what you can – I would love to get anything back some day if you ever get that far… If not, I will deal with it just like I did the hard drive crash 10 years ago where the originals were…

I tend to be a bit of a junk-pile historian – hanging on to relics of my families past – I am the one who saved my great grandpa’s framing square that he built their shack int he hills with, and the cake plat from my grandmother… That is me… – I believe that someone will care about the ramblings, rants, and publishings of those original geocitiesers… I was one of them.

Life will go on.

Sam

By: scott

scott — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:30:21 +0000

Thanks for backing them up. I started building websites in 1998 at the age of 12. I now run a web design company as my full time job. My first site was built on geocities and I’m glad to see it was backed up http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://geocities.com/extremescott

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:37:10 +0000

What, in the end, killed geocities? The rise of the big social networks like Facebook?

By: jk

jk — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:03:14 +0000

I have three questions:

Just to be sure, are you copying old hobbyist sites or emulation/rom sites or anything that may be deemed ‘not important?’

Are there any copies of the original web-based creation software? This would be exciting, but I don’t have high hopes as it was only accessed after logging in. And the background images and sample files, scripts etc…

And what about downloadable content linked to pages, are these being archived?

Thank you very much for your work.

By: Yahoo! is Shutting Down GeoCities Today, xkcd Pays Tribute, As Archive Team Tries To Download It

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:30:45 +0000

[...] Scott and the Archive Team have created The GeoCities Project and are working non-stop trying to download as much of GeoCities as possible before it shuts [...]

By: Goodbye Geocities: On Archiving Websites « Anne Helmond

Goodbye Geocities: On Archiving Websites « Anne Helmond — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:03:37 +0000

[...] and the Archive Team have started to archive Geocities and the progress is described in ‘Geocities: Lessons So Far.’ There are two great applications to backup your own, long forgotten, Geocities [...]

By: SITE ID » Blog Archive » Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26

SITE ID » Blog Archive » Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:46:40 +0000

[...] that hierarchy proved limiting and then confusing, as neighborhoods expanded into blocks and suburbs. After a Yahoo buyout in 1999, the new [...]

By: Goodnight, Sweet Prince – Geocities Shuts Down

Goodnight, Sweet Prince – Geocities Shuts Down — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:38:44 +0000

[...] there are still old school heroes on the internet. One of which, Jason Scott, is trying fervently to back up as much of Geocities as possible before it closes. I can only wish [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:29:21 +0000

Can you help to archive these two sites and let me know their links accessible from the internet?
http://www.geocities.com/tonyboneka (1999 until now)
http://www.geocities.com/tonyphuah (2003 until now)
Thanks in advance.

By: Post Position » Of Late

Post Position » Of Late — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:49:30 +0000

[...] Scott continues to back up Geocities, and, in the process of doing this, has posted page-heaps of under construction and email icons. [...]