Geocities as a DeletedCity(.net)

[Darren Dirt]

http://deletedcity.net/

Around the turn of the century, Geocities had tens of millions of "homesteaders" as the digital tennants were called ... Ten years later in 2009 Geocities was shutdown and deleted. In an heroic effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people, the Archive Team made a backup of the site just before it shut down. The resulting 650 Gigabyte bittorrent file is the digital Pompeii that is the subject of an interactive excavation that allows you to wander through an episode of recent online history...

[Mr. Analog]

Man, that's crazy, like the whole of Geocities could fit on a TB drive...

[Lazybones]

Man, that's crazy, like the whole of Geocities could fit on a TB drive...

Hardly seems crazy to me... I remember optimizing images to be single digit KB in size to avoid long load times via 14.4 modem... Hell even the horror that is background music was usually a 20k mid or something similar.

[Mr. Analog]

True, but there were so many sites at the time.

Hey I wonder if some of my old crappy sites are there haha

[Lazybones]

True, but there were so many sites at the time.

Hey I wonder if some of my old crappy sites are there haha

I could backup many sites to floppy, hell I believe that is what I did for my own page for the longest time... With compression you can get a lot in a small space, remember these will be plain HTML that can be REALLY REALLY compressed.

[Melbosa]

Ahh yes the backup to floppy.. member when we thought that was safe!

[Lazybones]

Ahh yes the backup to floppy.. member when we thought that was safe!

I don't recall it ever being considered safe.... Just common.

[Mr. Analog]

Ahh yes the backup to floppy.. member when we thought that was safe!

Hahaha, remember when burning to CD was "safe". I already have a couple corrupted backup CDs from 10-11 years ago and I have at least two music CDs that developed "disc rot"

The only reliable way is to seed on TPB as "porn" LOL

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.oocities.org/

an archive of the actual content ... not just a map/snapshot type of thingie.


So I guess it's Google searchable this way?

I was doing a Google Image search and one of the hits was within "oocities.org/something" and this blurb at the top of the page caught my eye:

This Page is an antiquarian - possibly outdated - usergenerated website brought to you by an archive. It was mirrored from Geocities in the end of october 2009.
For any questions about this page contact the respective author. To report any mal content send URL to oocities[at]gmail[dot]com. For any questions concerning the archive visit our main page:OoCities.org.

[Mr. Analog]

See now I'm wishing I remembered by old address, sort of peel back the layers of time and see what my 1999 self was up to

[Darren Dirt]

See now I'm wishing I remembered by old address, sort of peel back the layers of time and see what my 1999 self was up to

Were you jigen back then? Or something else?
Cuz there's a Google search on the right side of the homepage, you might be able to find your old self if you remember anything specific in the content or webpage titles...

[Mr. Analog]

Nope, before then I was Capt. Ron and fairly obsessed with Star Wars.

Of course something happened in 1999 that kind of stopped that until The Clone Wars.

[Darren Dirt]

What menace could bring you to such a sudden stop in your fanboy drooling?

[Mr. Analog]

What menace could bring you to such a sudden stop in your fanboy drooling?

All I'm saying is that somewhere after 1999 "Lucas" became a verb...

[Darren Dirt]

What menace could bring you to such a sudden stop in your fanboy drooling?

All I'm saying is that somewhere after 1999 "Lucas" became a verb...

Better, it got. ( and even better still (apparently (but we'll never get to see it) ) )