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Geocities Last call countdown. - hmelton - 09-26-2009
Ever wondered where the picture went when you turned off the TV?
It's now one month + or - 1 day until Geocities is turned off and I wonder where the sites will go.
This past week I have been reminded of several old fanfics and had to hunt them up. A most of them were on semi-abandoned webpages at Geocities.
I also have acounts at Geocities and when I signed in to finish moving "superman unbound" I realized that the end of this week would mark the one
month point on the count down to the end of the free Geo clock.
How many fanfic sites have you come across that are facing eletronic Geo limbo?
Here are a few that I have visited and downloaded selected portions before they go the way of that TV picture.
CLOUD DREAMER he is !MOVING!
http://www.geocities.com/cloud_dreamer2000/
SKJAM
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/5990/
CYRANNUS SYSTEM
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4590/
TEMPLE OF THE CREATIVE
http://www.geocities.com/jehtek/
FATE AND DESTINY HOMEPAGE
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/2881/
All these sites had something I wanted to keep and until this week had neglected to put on my FANFIC DVD.
I know there is a group archiving the sites, but it's a certainty they will miss some things and it might be a fanfic I wanted to read again.
So what free Geo website have you run across that is probably on its count down to a last call?
howard melton
God bless
- robkelk - 09-27-2009
I am, perhaps foolishly, relying on the http://web.archive.org/collections/web/advanced.html]Wayback Machine to keep a copy of Geocities for me. It's been pretty good at giving me "disappeared" websites so far...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Geocities Last Call countdown - hmelton - 09-28-2009
I'm familiar with the "wayback machine" and while it is very useful it has failed me several times.
Maybe it's the type of fanfic websites I visit, but several times it's only been able to give me badly corrupted fanfic files.
howard melton
God bless