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Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Henry — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:12:20 -0000

great article
it is informative
but i think we should really let go of GeoCities
it is better off
thanks for the post all the same

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

MKL — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:52:44 -0000

Uhm... http://www.archiveteam.org/... !

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

ricardomt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:45:12 -0000

I was the owner of Hollywood/1406 but Yahoo! also shut down some neighborhoods a few years ago, forcing homeowners to move to the boring http://www.geocities.com/ya... schema. I was one of the affected by this change. Am I going to be able to regain access to my old Hollywood address? It was home of the very first Woody Woodpecker (the cartoon) fan site ever, the World Wide Woody Woodpecker Website.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Nile Flores — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:41:13 -0000

Um... Reocities was not the only people to try to salvage ANYTHING from Geocities. FanHistory, Archive.org, Archiveteam were among the forefront. Where are their mentions...this was the first I ever heard about this person and it is great as I am all for it, but the preservation of GeoCities was NOT a one-man show.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraH — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:34:57 -0000

That's optimistic. I know of people with paid sites who still lost all their content. In a way, free sites like Geocities are more reliable for saving content. If people had paid accounts, the content might have closed, their could have been a malicious mySQL injection that brought down their site, etc. (Anyone remember Simplenet and all the stuff that got lost when THEY closed down or kept migrating? That was a paid site.)

Paid sites are not necessarily any more reliable as historical archives of internet history than free ones.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraH — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:32:44 -0000

Was a Geocities site optimized better than your site?

I don't quite get why people don't find this sort of preservation work important and meaningful. That is a lot of potential history and a lot of important content that was lost. Several organizations understood the importance of this including the Internet ARchive, Archive Team, and Fan History and worked to preserve it so that 20 years from now, people will be able to understand exactly what the Internet was like in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraH — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:29:01 -0000

http://lewiscollard.com/geo... has a number of awesome caps of Geocities sites.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraH — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:20 -0000

Yes, because there is content on Geocities that you cannot find elsewhere. So the people cheering the death of Geocities are basically cheering the death of a lot of original research, original fiction, historical information and content. Three cheers for the short sighted people who don't grock that, caught up only in 1990s era web design as the internet's biggest failure.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraH — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:07:08 -0000

Geocities is pretty dead. Trying to do this after it closed... It needed to be done earlier. At Fan History, we tried to broadcast our efforts inside the fan community. We did a lot of screen capping, stub article creation to let people know what existed there. (And offer historical context for that, provide links to where that content can now be found.) We didn't succeed nearly as well as I would have liked. We discussed some of the lessons we learned at http://blog.fanhistory.com/... .

The efforts of this guy will work best if he approaches others first.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

technicalfault — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:25:51 -0000

Erm there was already an archive.org project going on and another independent one. Why is a) Mashable commenting on this with such unbridled excitement and enthusiasm when this is nothing innovative and b) the person in the story not contributing to wider archive efforts that are already in a more advanced stage and would welcome contribution of resources?

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

carte sd — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:55:50 -0000

This is very informative article.I was wondering this stuff only. Thanks for such a great post. It is very useful for me. I would like to know more in this topic. Hope for know more in it.
Thanks.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

DatingSiteBuilder.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:28:01 -0000

Free website vs Paid website
risk of loosing it vs safe, secure, support

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

MikeonTV — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:23:01 -0000

Great idea! Next why not set up a LoRD server!?

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Search Engine Optimization — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:46:56 -0000

Time to let it go, and move on!

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Ashkir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:16:15 -0000

I am honestly surprised that people are all of a sudden jumping to ReoCities. FanHistory has been trying to do this for months for when it was announced, because of how large GeoCities was in fan history. They tried to preserve it.

http://www.fanhistory.com/w...

They did save a lot of content.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Erik — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:24:57 -0000

Are there really die-hard fans of Geocities?

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Andrew Watson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:11 -0000

I applaud REOcities, in much the same way I applaud REO Speedwagon. Not that I want to visit ReoCities, or hear REO Speedwagon's threatened Christmas album. But I'm glad that they are there for those who want them.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

gabrielnkuna — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:26:44 -0000

People should really let go of GeoCities. RIP web 1.0. Now there are new ways of doing the same thing more effectively in web 2.0. Try http://www.iflaker.com for building Free websites.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

AveAveLucifer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:11:33 -0000

Holy Christ! That's, um... wow. I'm at a loss as to an appropriate response... As far as I'm concerned, I was there for the GeoCities era, and... it wasn't all that great. Not at all.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Guest — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:28 -0000

I miss my Geocities account.
It was located at SunsetStrip/9293

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Me — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:01:25 -0000

I just used mine to store files.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Doug Smith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:58:07 -0000

On the one hand, an admirable effort (VERY admirable). On the other, why wait until 6 days out. It wasn't exactly a secret -- I wasn't ever much of a geocities visitor let alone site owner, and I heard about it many months ago.

There are a couple of other efforts I read about here on Mashable that have been going on since the time of Yahoo's original announcement (The Archive Project and the Way, Way Back Machine).

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

mar — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:41:17 -0000

Kind of pointless, but neat. :D

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Brandon_Sheley — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:38:33 -0000

just let it die ;)

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Error601 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:37:07 -0000

I think Yahoo! let it die for a reason... (oh, my eyes!)