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Geocities To Be Made Available As a 900GB Torrent

Posted by Soulskill on from the only-half-will-be-under-construction-gifs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Felt a shortage of the blink tag in your life lately? Well, have no fear. One year after Geocities was shut down in a cost-cutting move by Yahoo, a group self-styled as 'The Archive Team' have announced they will be releasing a ~900GB torrent file archive. It doesn't have every single site, but they believe they got most of it. The team believes that it's important to not just delete our digital culture, and as crazy as Geocities may have been, it was an important cultural milestone in the history of showing that anyone could create content online."

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  1. Well, crap by rritterson · · Score: 5, Funny

    And now my early-teen horrible taste and design ability will live forever in it's terrible FrontPage '97 designed glory. Hallelujah!

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  2. Download the internet by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not so crazy now, is it?

  3. Well finallly! by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a way of getting those old files back. 900 GB. Let's see. Gotta be in there somewhere....

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  4. Neat! by DWMorse · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm ALWAYS looking for ways to make my ISP hate me!

    Or, maybe not me... how about my neighbor with the unsecured wireless?

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  5. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And nothing of value was... saved?

  6. Re:might be interesting to host it? by froggymana · · Score: 3, Funny

    Torrents, not just for Linux .iso's any more.

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  7. Re:I see TFA thinks to ask the same question I did by cyan · · Score: 4, Funny

    To answer your question: http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

  8. Re:might be interesting to host it? by Translation+Error · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be interested to see who would host something like that.

    Hey, how about Yahoo?

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