From geocities to reocities
June 8th 2010 08:15
Some time ago I wrote about losing all my files when geocities.com was killed off under Yahoo's mighty hand.
At that time it seemed as though the stories, articles, poems and blog posts - and more - had all vanished for good. I'd heard that reocities.com was in the process of trying to recover all those lost files (not just mine, but the files belonging to everyone who'd ever been on geocites). How they set about doing this I don't know, but huge kudos to them for attempting the major task.
When I searched for my old geocities address under reocities, however, there was nothing. And then one day, when I'd given up all hope, I happened to click on an old link to a file on geocities, expecting it to give me a 'not found' response. Instead, I suddenly found myself in the reocities version, and there were all my old files as good as new.
This was my old address: "www.geocities.com/Athens/For um/4657/" - it no longer goes anywhere. But substitute one letter - an 'r' for the 'g' in geocities, and you get this: "www.reocities.com/Athens/For um/4657/" and you'll find all the material that used to be there before.
I mentioned that I was going to use Jimdo as a new alternative to geocities. However, it's a glorified blog site, and I don't find it very satisfactory (though it's certainly prettier than reocities!). Furthermore, Jimdo doesn't seem to get onto Google very readily, which isn't much cop. (And worst of all, I can't even remember its name properly: I keep calling it Jimbo.)
There's a Firefox Link Fixer at the reocities site, but I don't have any idea how you use it. Maybe someone can help. All that happens when I click on it is that I get a load of code and I'm not sure where to put that.
At that time it seemed as though the stories, articles, poems and blog posts - and more - had all vanished for good. I'd heard that reocities.com was in the process of trying to recover all those lost files (not just mine, but the files belonging to everyone who'd ever been on geocites). How they set about doing this I don't know, but huge kudos to them for attempting the major task.
When I searched for my old geocities address under reocities, however, there was nothing. And then one day, when I'd given up all hope, I happened to click on an old link to a file on geocities, expecting it to give me a 'not found' response. Instead, I suddenly found myself in the reocities version, and there were all my old files as good as new.
This was my old address: "www.geocities.com/Athens/For um/4657/" - it no longer goes anywhere. But substitute one letter - an 'r' for the 'g' in geocities, and you get this: "www.reocities.com/Athens/For um/4657/" and you'll find all the material that used to be there before.
I mentioned that I was going to use Jimdo as a new alternative to geocities. However, it's a glorified blog site, and I don't find it very satisfactory (though it's certainly prettier than reocities!). Furthermore, Jimdo doesn't seem to get onto Google very readily, which isn't much cop. (And worst of all, I can't even remember its name properly: I keep calling it Jimbo.)
There's a Firefox Link Fixer at the reocities site, but I don't have any idea how you use it. Maybe someone can help. All that happens when I click on it is that I get a load of code and I'm not sure where to put that.
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