geocities

I have to agree, installing the news reader and configuring the servers was almost a "barrier to entry" :D

Does anyone still use newsgroups any more?

"We should have done a much better job with preservation." - and that is exactly it, people in the future will look back and shake their heads at the callousness with which we just deleted early history

The sites are from the torrent and also from the archive team as well. I had to write some code that went through all sites and update the links. I also at the same time tried to just extract the html body and use that for indexing.... Yahoo! must still have the original sites. Surely they could just put them online as a "Read Only" version. They would have nothing to lose

There's not going to be everything unfortunately. What was your site on archive.org?

I did, notepad and Netscape was where it was at..

It's insane how all the early internet has effectively been destroyed with absolutely no recourse of ever getting any of it back :(

Yeah, our little project is getting quite a few hits at the moment - I may have to upgrade the hosting lol. Sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't really think anyone was that interested in Geocities anymore :D

Wow, that is an awesome site!!

It's a real shame; I had a Geocities Site and it was lost as well. When I came across the torrent I thought I would try and rescue as much as possible

Hi, the source was the torrent which we needed to patch up with other sources