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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.

Quantum P. wrote:yet

Well shit, now I actually care.

well that's not cool :(

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

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

seriously, someone make a backup, that shit is heritage

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

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.

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 ) 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.

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.

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...

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.