5 month ago
philgyford : Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities... - Wonderful - one guy raced to copy all of GeoCities. Worth reading 'Making of'. He should win medals, awards, certificates, etc. (via Kottke)
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deusx : Please be patient - This Page is Under Construction! - More "Under Construction" animgifs than you can handle.
wearehugh : Please be patient - This Page is Under Construction!
# copy11 month ago
philgyford : "Petty" " Rescued Geocities Fry and Laurie' Scripts - It's not only nice that he's rescued another GeoCities site, but that it's one I remember visiting a lot back in the day and had completely forgotten.
# copy11 month ago
Andy Baio : Dreamhost's history of WebRing - sold for $3.5 million to Geocities, vested to $100M in Yahoo stock by 2000, and bought back for $10,000
deusx : DreamHost Blog » They’re Internet History - "Back in 1998, who would have thought WebRing would outlast GeoCities?"
philgyford : DreamHost Blog " They're Internet History - More stuff about the history of GeoCities and WebRing. (via Waxy)
# copy11 month ago
Andy Baio : Jason Scott's progress update on mirroring Geocities - in 48 hours, Archive Team's already saved over 200,000 Geocities sites
nelson : Archiving Geocities - Notes from the team spidering Geocities before it's shut down
philgyford : ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Lessons So Far - Not just for the good stuff about archiving Geocities, but also about the history of the site and its structure. (via Waxy)
# copy11 month ago
Rod Begbie : Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard: MySpace and Geocities — separated at birth - "Geocities — the MySpace of 1997-1999" [via] #
# copy11 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities - "P.S. Fuck Yahoo! We are going to rescue your shit!"
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