Upon the announcement of the closing of GeoCities, an attempt was made to rescue as much data from GeoCities' destruction as possible. 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, in an attempt to create a mirror of GeoCities, although an incomplete one.
Another site which is attempting to build an archive of defunct GeoCities websites is GeoCities.ws. There is no formal relationship between GeoCities and geocities.ws, as it is a completely different company. Many sites were automatically duplicated from GeoCities to geocities.ws many months after the closure of GeoCities. Geocities.ws also offers free hosting.
Kyle Drake Founder of NeoCities. |
NeoCities' mascot, Penelope the Cat. |
Now you can travel back in time with 1996 Bill and look at his bad ass page! Complete with horrible page design, mangled code, annoying animated gifs, and loads of meaningless site awards! Although the site has only been up for a week or so, in that time I received a warm welcome into the community, had over 1200 unique page views, and gained 17 followers! Upon viewing the page, fellow NeoCitizen, voov exclaimed,"Oh my lawdy... Haven't seen a page like this in a long while! (Yes, even on neocities.)" I feel like I have accomplished a quite wonderful compliment, here!
Are you ready to surf the wave of Web 1.0 nostalgia, shed social media, and make your own personal home page? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below.
I've been ready for a month, and I've made my own website! What do you think of it?
ReplyDeleteLooks like you've made a wonderful start! I especially like the dream journal.
DeleteThank you!
DeleteI've kept copies of all my 100+ websites since 1995, but my geocities was the single instance where I had to rescue it from the WayBack machine. Glad that service is available.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing left of my old GeoCities site is a blacked out page protesting the new Yahoo terms of service. LOL!
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