Just backtracking through my referrer logs and I found your page. How is the merging coming along ?

I keep finding new people with ‘stashes’, one guy just mailed me 2.5G of Anime. Go figure Anyway, I have seen some sites that we’ve lost, but not many. One nice way to check statistically what kind of coverage we’ve got by going to bing or google, type in a subject and inurl:geocities.com , then see what you’ve got and what’s missing.

I’m working on a ‘master list’ off all the sites and who has what, this should be available to you in the next couple of days, archive.org will be a while in the coming.

Jacques

On a serious note, would it have killed Yahoo to make GeoCities Read Only instead? They probably served more pages in the past month than they had the previous year.

I have been surprised at how unknown archive team’s efforts have been. I’ve seen several blog entries, news stories, podcast coverage, etc, of the geocities shutdown in the past week, and most of it was nostalgic or dismissive in tone, and even those who seemed to feel on some level that the plug shouldn’t just be pulled as it was had a rather fatalistic outlook on it. I was just reading yesterday an entry on io9 about the best sci-fi sites “we’ll miss when geocities shuts down”; one commenter mentioned his Joe Landsdale fan site, long abandoned, and even gave its url. I went back after reading your post here and visiting reocities: sure enough, change one letter in the url and this guy’s old site is there. What a thankless job these four projects have done. I appreciate it.

I suppose Yahoo still hasn’t given any indication of how much data was there to be saved? How much they’ve gained by doing this?

Over the years, I had several Geocities pages, most of which I had forgotten how to navigate back to again. I’ll be interested to see in the coming months and years if any of the archive efforts managed to capture any of them.