The Geocities Revival
November 2nd 2010 07:35
I've written a few times here recently about the way in which geocities.com was summarily dismissed from the Internet by Yahoo, and then was rescued sometime later by reocities.
Well, now it turns out the reocities weren't the only ones concerned (well, horrified might be more correct) at Yahoo's total disregard to the geocities users. A site called ASCII run by Jason Scott has the geocities file (some several hundred gigabytes of it) available for download as a torrent.. I'm not entirely sure what a torrent is, although I can kind of gauge it from what's said, but there's a sort of explanation here (although even that one tells me more than I want to know/understand).
But there's more to come. Another site, OoCities.org seems to be making it their business, too, to revive geocities. I only discovered this when a couple of Google alerts showed up this formerly unrecognised website which had my old geocities pages on it. Which means, presumably, that Google is actually picking up the material from OoCities as well - good news for us who thought that in the process of being dumped by Yahoo we were being dumped by Google too.
Well, it's all to the good. The Internet is a place where links are forever dying and the fewer that die the better. Dead links are a frustration at the best of times (something I wrote about way back in the 90s, before the Internet was anything like it is today - that's an article I must put on the Net sometime, in fact) so it's better that they're kept rather than dumped.
UPDATE: Since I wrote this, reocities has done a great job in resurrecting the old geocities websites. Check out my later post on the subject.
Well, now it turns out the reocities weren't the only ones concerned (well, horrified might be more correct) at Yahoo's total disregard to the geocities users. A site called ASCII run by Jason Scott has the geocities file (some several hundred gigabytes of it) available for download as a torrent.. I'm not entirely sure what a torrent is, although I can kind of gauge it from what's said, but there's a sort of explanation here (although even that one tells me more than I want to know/understand).
But there's more to come. Another site, OoCities.org seems to be making it their business, too, to revive geocities. I only discovered this when a couple of Google alerts showed up this formerly unrecognised website which had my old geocities pages on it. Which means, presumably, that Google is actually picking up the material from OoCities as well - good news for us who thought that in the process of being dumped by Yahoo we were being dumped by Google too.
Well, it's all to the good. The Internet is a place where links are forever dying and the fewer that die the better. Dead links are a frustration at the best of times (something I wrote about way back in the 90s, before the Internet was anything like it is today - that's an article I must put on the Net sometime, in fact) so it's better that they're kept rather than dumped.
UPDATE: Since I wrote this, reocities has done a great job in resurrecting the old geocities websites. Check out my later post on the subject.
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