geocities

I have to agree, installing the news reader and configuring the servers was almost a "barrier to entry" :D

Does anyone still use newsgroups any more?

"We should have done a much better job with preservation." - and that is exactly it, people in the future will look back and shake their heads at the callousness with which we just deleted early history

The sites are from the torrent and also from the archive team as well. I had to write some code that went through all sites and update the links. I also at the same time tried to just extract the html body and use that for indexing.... Yahoo! must still have the original sites. Surely they could just put them online as a "Read Only" version. They would have nothing to lose

There's not going to be everything unfortunately. What was your site on archive.org?

I did, notepad and Netscape was where it was at..

It's insane how all the early internet has effectively been destroyed with absolutely no recourse of ever getting any of it back :(

Yeah, our little project is getting quite a few hits at the moment - I may have to upgrade the hosting lol. Sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't really think anyone was that interested in Geocities anymore :D

You could try the archiveteams downloads

https://archive.org/download/2009-archiveteam-geocities-part...

Hi, yes, I think this is because a few of the old Geocities sites had zip files which allowed you to open CD trays and other "kewl hacks" back in the day.

We have run malwarebytes over all the files and they are coming up clean.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/713c45d3ac7560847f48cc107...

Wow, that is an awesome site!!

It's a real shame; I had a Geocities Site and it was lost as well. When I came across the torrent I thought I would try and rescue as much as possible

Hi, the source was the torrent which we needed to patch up with other sources

We are trying to archive and patch together as much as possible given the sources.

I don't think there is a full complete archive available anymore :(

Thanks for the feedback :)

The Geocities Archive Project is slowly tagging old Geocities images using AI.

In honour of the days of crazy colour schemes, flashing images, tiled backgrounds and guest books, we have released the Geocities Archive Project at https://www.geocitiesarchive.org

Geocities was a free web hosting service that was launched in November of 1994. On a corporate whim, in 2009, Yahoo! shut down Geocities, which meant years of digital data was lost to the world. This equated to around 38 million user-created webpages, rich with family photos, fledgling business profiles, and pics that were sure to embarrass their creators many years on.

So what happened? Geocities was acquired by Yahoo in January 1999 for $3.57 billion in Yahoo stock. Unfortunately, the new terms and conditions introduced by Yahoo! proved less than popular with the vast majority of users: Yahoo! stated that it now owned all content within Geocities. After trying to provide a more premium service by offering vanity urls, rumours began to surface during 2001 that Geocities would be closing. Yahoo! would go on to effectively destroy fifteen years of early internet history overnight as many users did not have the ability to make a copy of their website before it was taken offline.

On April 23, 2009, Geocities stopped allowing any new member registrations and announced that the United States version of Geocities would be shutting down on 26th of October 2009.

Good news! So, with some tricky coding, and driven by the belief that this early internet history should not be lost on future generations, we have searched, indexed and made available for search over 40 million user created files.

We hope you're ready for an entertaining and nostalgic walk down memory lane.

The team @ Geocities Archive