The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131311   Message #2961550
Posted By: JohnInKansas
09-Aug-10 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: Tech: question: Mudcat Songbook
Subject: RE: Tech: question for max
From Wiki

Archiving GeoCities websites

Shortly after the GeoCities closing announcement, the Internet Archive announced a project to archive GeoCities pages, stating "GeoCities has been an important outlet for personal expression on the Web for almost 15 years." Internet Archive made it their task to ensure the thoroughness and completeness of their archive of GeoCities sites.

The website InternetArchaeology.org also archived and is showcasing artifacts from GeoCities.

The operators of the website ReoCities downloaded as much of the content hosted on GeoCities as they could before it shut down and intend to create a mirror of GeoCities, albeit an incomplete one.

Another site which is attempting to build an archive of defunct GeoCities web sites is GeoCities.ws. Although it is using the GeoCities name, it is not clear from the site what its relationship with the original GeoCities is.

Other sites with this purpose are Geociti.es and oocities.com.


From elsewhere in the article, the original geocities apparently still offers web hosting for paid accounts, but the free pages previously available are now offered in Japan only.

John