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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. might be interesting to host it? by phyrexianshaw.ca · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

    if I had the bandwidth for a good price, I'd consider it.

  2. Internet Archive should pick this up. by Animats · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good.

    The Internet Archive should pick this up, if they haven't already. I'll talk to some people.

    Archiving is getting easier. I had a minor part in preserving the archives of the Stanford AI lab. That required weeks of loading 6250bpi 2400 foot open reel tapes.

  3. Re:On the contrary, the web must forget by 0123456 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh, and and for an example in the digital realm: the Apollo Guidance Computer is now flying Apollo spacecraft around the Earth and Moon in simulators, which was possible primarily because packrats kept old software listings in their basement for decades which were scanned, OCR-ed and then hand-fixed where required in order to recreate the original binaries to run in an emulator. The Saturn guidance computer which put the Apollo spacecraft into orbit is not, because there were no packrats to keep the software and IBM appears to have thrown it away or lost it.