Jason Scott and "The Archive

Shaggy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:13:32 +0000

Jason Scott and "The Archive Team" are busy downloading as much of GeoCities as they can get their hands on, by the sounds of it!

http://ascii.textfiles.com/

I hope all those site owners

msbenchmark — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:35:27 +0000

I hope all those site owners were able to save their content before it switched over to archive mode, in case any information was lost.

I never used geocites, but I remember thinking about it at some point, because it was free and easy to use. That takes me back a long time, it must have been over ten years ago, which seem like ages on the web.

haha - we get a page moved

decibel.places — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:43:33 +0000

haha - we get a page moved screen (with lots of purple - I like purple ) and then it redirects to "page not found"

Yahoo will do everybody a favor when it is gone

On netsperience 1.0, however, I have many DHTML/JavaScript apps and widgets I developed over about 10 years. I guess I'll have to move them to my updated netsperience 2.x site.

But one of my early pages on archive.org does not display except for lots of blue (I also like blue ), I think it's because GeoCities changed their addon scripts many times (and many times I had to tshoot my own scripts because of that). It's not my earliest page, it is still after Yahoo bought GeoCities.

My earliest GeoCities page I have been able to find is a placeholder page with meta refresh for a sort of slideshow effect that I retired on June 2, 1997. It ends up on my résumé url that I have updated.

Back then, I didn't have internet access, so I went to the library to go online. (Heck, I had an IBM PS/2 with a 6MB hard drive and 256KB of RAM running Windows 3.1.1 - yes, remember "Windows for Workgroups"?!) Netscape 2 which was used by the NYPL was unable to upload binary files/images, so I arranged to email them uuencoded to another member who would upload them for me, but the NYPL upgraded to NS3 just in time.

Nothing too exciting

Megan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:29:57 +0000

Nothing too exciting here:

http://geocities.com/Colosseum/Bench/7083/

I have an even older site on tripod.

ahh - thanks for the heads

decibel.places — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:12:41 +0000

ahh - thanks for the heads up

netsperience 1.0 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/6131

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