Open thread: What are we losing with Geocities’ Death?

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Peter Swimm

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With news of Geocities shutting down, the biggest question for me is what data might we lose onec they take down the servers. Should any kind of concerted effort be made to backup the programing resources?

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6 responses to “Open thread: What are we losing with Geocities’ Death?”

  1. tristendo

    Though I think it is now too late for that. I do think all the usefull programing resources should be backed up but I dont know who will. Geocities r.i.p ;_;

    1. Peter Swimm

      A number of sites are still up, for example:

      http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/8700/P/GsorigE.htm

  2. radian

    Did archive.org’s wayback machine index geocities?

    I’ll bet some hacked ROMs and so on have been lost.

    1. Peter Swimm

      Yea but seldom do they backup binaries.

  3. arlen

    Wasn’t there MML stuff that was on geocities? It’s been years since. I might be wrong, but I’m pretty sure there was.

  4. goto80

    I’ve been doing a lot of not sleeping for months. I’ve been working on backing up hundreds of gigabytes of data that you decided to delete. I hate you.

    —-8<—-

    Yes! Our BBS hero Jason Scott comes to the rescue!
    http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2280
    http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities_Project
    http://geociti.es/
    …

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