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Cellar Dweller
Posted on 10-20-09 02:00 PM Link | Quote | ID: 117575


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Last view: 3221 days 		During the summer it was announced that GeoCities will be shutting down on October 26. There is less than a week left to download anything from GeoCities that you, or someone else, may be interested in keeping. The exact time of day that the shutdown will occur has not been specified, so to be safe you should assume that it will occur just as soon as the date changes to the 26th in the first time zone to do so.

The Internet Archive has been doing a deep crawl of GeoCities, and they have been taking URLs to spider from. However, there is no guarantee that any sites submitted will be crawled in time for the closing. A user posting in a thread on the Internet Archive forums suggests using HTTrack to download sites. Those comfortable with the command line may want to use good old Wget.

Anya
Posted on 10-21-09 06:15 AM Link | Quote | ID: 117657


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Thanks for the info. I knew it was coming, I just forgot when. I backed-up a lot of pictures that I had there but I need to go back and see if I have anything else that's worth saving.

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kuja killer
Posted on 10-21-09 12:47 PM Link | Quote | ID: 117675


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Last view: 20 hours 		Im seriously curious if it's going to happen to all the japanese sites on the geocities.jp
I'll be REAL sad if all the websites i have bookmarked all are gone forever. Just only japanese sites of megaman rom hackers's blogs and megaman rom hacks and so on

Rock5easily, Yosaku, Misty Earn, kuwata's message board especially!, just alot.

paulguy
Posted on 10-21-09 06:37 PM Link | Quote | ID: 117693


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I'm sure if the sites are active, they'll be moved by the site authors as they likely got plenty of advance warning. If not then they're just not very smart.

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Insectduel
Posted on 10-22-09 12:39 AM Link | Quote | ID: 117724


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Last view: 1258 days 		I'm aware of the situation about Rockman hacking geocities sites. Most J-people now use "atwiki.jp" for their source especially Touhoumon.

I used to have Geocities on my own. Just downloading 1 SMB-SMAS project off and put it in another.

blackhole89
Posted on 10-26-09 04:05 PM Link | Quote | ID: 117996


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Even xkcd is commemorating (celebrating?) it.

Seriously, though, this has got to be a symbolic date... I still remember how my first pathetic attempt at putting something on the internet, way back in 1997, was hosted by it too. (I entered a wrong birthdate in order to be allowed to sign in and spent the week after trembling for the Geocities profile information police to barge in my door and arrest me)

Perhaps, this day will go down in textbooks as the end of Web 1.0.

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Bukkarooo
Posted on 10-26-09 07:23 PM Link | Quote | ID: 118004


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haha I noticed the xkcd thing. I honestly wouldn't have understood it were it not for the Geocities banner at the top... or read the little moving "GeoCities is shutting down today. To commemorate this, xkcd.com has been redesigned" text

I never went to geocities, I guess I'm still pretty new to the internet if only for that reason

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Cellar Dweller
Posted on 10-27-09 09:38 AM Link | Quote | ID: 118033


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Last view: 3221 days 		It looks like sites are starting to go down. http://www.geocities.com/acmlm_jf32/ is giving out 503 errors but http://www.geocities.com/dreaming_anya/ is still working as I type.

NightKev
Posted on 10-27-09 10:36 AM (rev. 3 of 10-28-09 06:59 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 118034


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No, Acmlm's site still works fine.
Edit: Worked, now I'm getting 503 too. Huh.
Edit2: Acmlm's site is "gone", but Anya's is still there...

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