Geocities to close down

Post by **Quantum P.** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:10 am

Yahoo pulls the plug on Geocities (BBC News)

They haven't pulled the plug yet, but apparently it's going to happen this year.

Discuss.

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:24 am

Quantum P. wrote:yet

Well shit, now I actually care.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:59 pm

well that's not cool :(

Post by **Fungahhh** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:21 pm

I think that's where I first found MegaZeux back in like 1999 or whenever.

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:45 am

NNNOOOOO NOT THE NORRIS AND SEAN'S KICKIN' ZZT PAGE

seriously, someone make a backup, that shit is heritage

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:48 pm

somebody needs to back up every geocities page or we are going to lose some serious magic

Post by **Quantum P.** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:48 pm

Apparently there's this group called the Archive Team that's going to make a backup of Geocities.

The guy who's organizing it says you should still make backups yourself if there's something you care about. They've got a list of tools which I'll have to look into.

Kjorteo · Post by **Kjorteo** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:12 pm

Man, I remember GeoCities' whole structure, where it wasn't personalized domains so much as random pages with some sort of category and then a number, so the whole thing was like being in an apartment where you could move out and someone else could move in. Back when I was young and stupid and had CHOCOBOKICK'S RPG ONLINE, I used to inhabit EnchantedForest/Dell/2387 (although the earliest archive version of it is still after I apparently pulled it and moved to Xoom and there's nothing earlier than that :sadness:

) but EnchantedForest/Dell/2387 is now TRACY'S HOMPAGE. Which just might be an improvement.

But yeah, nothing on the internet works like that anymore. Mostly because it's a really stupid idea, although that being what we had at the time makes me oddly nostalgic about it.

Also, we need to back up the Pleasure Palace Magazine fansite and, I don't know, whatever else you guys put on GeoCities.

ajc · Post by **ajc** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:37 pm

This made me really sad at first. When I got the news that Geocities was going down, I went to all the old Geocities sites me or my friends had built, then it reminded me of how ashamed of those sites I am.

Post by **Quantum P.** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:44 am

Sorry for reviving an old thread, but Geocities is closing in only a couple of days... so I've been playing around with wget.

wget does a pretty good job of downloading everything it can get its grubby little hands on. However, if a file has nothing linking to it, wget isn't going to find it. So Commodore, if you want a backup of the Members section of the MIG site, you should make your own personal backup, because I only have what's publicly visible (or if you don't mind the world seeing it, send me a URL or something).

I've just been searching Google for stuff like zzt games site:geocities.com and grabbing what looks interesting. But that's highly subjective, and I might miss something! So if you see any glaring omissions, speak up now...

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:45 am

I backed up my site a few weeks ago. But I didn't use any special programs which I think is the reason it save a bunch of javascript stuff in it relating to ads.

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