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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. Re:might be interesting to host it? by cyan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Already done. http://geociti.es/

  2. Re:might be interesting to host it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.coralcdn.org/

  3. Re:I see TFA thinks to ask the same question I did by Raenex · · Score: 3, Informative

    In this insanely litigious society, I wonder what kind of copyright release (from all the grillions of Geocities content copyright holders) these "Archive" chaps got? I hope it doesn't come back to bite them.

    There's already precedent with archive.org and Google's caching of web pages. Google was actually sued and won in this regard.