Slashdot Mirror
Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities
jamie found this note from Jason Scott, who organizes the Archive Team. They are busy downloading as much of Geocities as they can before it vanishes from the Net after Yahoo pulled the plug. (Note: that textfiles.com link is a good candidate for Readability.) "..after 48 hours of work, Archive Team has saved over 200,000 Geocities sites. We're now pulling in new sites at the rate of something like 5 a second. Is that fast enough? We'll see, won't we. ... A side-effect of the whole process is I now know way, way, way too much [sic] about Geocities than I ever expected to. We've had to dissect every aspect of how the site functions to understand how to mirror things, from its history through how it does crazy javascript ads. Some of it is stupid and some is hilarious... We think we have most every site from 1999 and before on Geocities that was left. ... It is more important to me to grab the data than to figure out how to serve it later. People who have been talking about copyright and stuff seem to think I'm going to sell it or take credit or some crap. I don't see how the final collection won't end up online, but how is elusive — maybe a torrent of a bunch of zip files, or as a curated collection, or as a bunch of hard drives. However it is, I'll make sure people can get it, somehow."
to surround it all by a blink tag
I lost the password to my Geocities page 10 years ago. Think you might be able to find it?
I can see the fnords!
Yes, future generations must know about the horrors visited upon us by the millions of tubgirl and lolcats clones which populated Geocities. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
They'll be broke in only 40 years.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
If you buy a movie theater that shows dirty porn films and has jerk-off booths in the back, people will be demanding you blow it up for years, and when you do, they'll throw a party.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Did you try hunter2?
Perhaps the archive.org folks would like to preserve this too.
I want to make sure that any geocities site I may have been affiliated with back in my formative years is not seen by anyone who might recognize me now.
Who do I make the check out to, and how many significant places will be required?
You could have explained that (tubgirl==shockSite).
Along with people who insist on using fixed width fonts in a forum where *everybody* else uses proportional width fonts.
...to rhyme with 'atrocities' ?
And archived porn from the 2000s will tell future generations that the sexual act in our time always ended with the man ejaculating up the woman's nose.
They'll wonder how anybody ever got pregnant around the turn of the millennium.
You are welcome on my lawn.
That's a strawman argument, and you know it.
What was that password? When you typed hunter2, all I saw was *******.
Be relentless!
"you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2" http://www.bash.org/?244321
Real men read Slashdot articles at -1, bottom up.
Funny, but true. I did forget my login information (email/username and password) to this site, which is just the one image.
For those who don't know, this is a parody of Chick religious tracts (God, what a waste of a domain name!) that has often been the target of the Chick lawyers.
Note to the Chick legal team: I'll be glad to take it down if you give me my password! :)
Dark Reflection
Back in 1996-97 I made an extremely amateurish geocities site with some unfinished programming tutorials, the most popular of which was on qbasic. I sort of stopped working on it after a while, lost my password, and couldn't get yahoo to authenticate me years later when I wanted to remove my ridiculous site. The bio page is especially embarrassing, and the programming material that is there is of no use today. Honestly I'm too lazy to expend any more energy in my effort to shut down my site, so naturally I am relieved to see yahoo pulling the plug on geocities. The way I see it, the internet is cleaner without my site clogging the tubes. My site could live indefinitely in archiving systems, but hopefully someday it won't even show up on a search for "qbasic programming". Will the web naturally garbage collect my orphaned web page, without my intervention?
n/t
Wouldn't you?
with that site gone, how will people ever know that soy beverages, soy cheese, soy flour, soy meal, soy oil, soy sauce, soy protein, and soybeans ALL CONTAIN SOY PRODUCTS?
i know it's not all of them, but seriously - damn near half of the products on that page have SOY in the name. i can only deduce that geocities hates natural selection.
the united states is a nation of laws; badly written and randomly enforced -- frank zappa
There are some important documents about Mr. T, Chewbacca and testicle consumption that would be a shame to lose.