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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: saint on September 13, 2009, 01:28:11 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 12, 2009, 11:20:32 pm ---Geocities is finally closing their doors on October 29th. Ignoring the issues surrounding the service itself, it might be a good idea to mirror those Geocities sites that still retain some measure of usefulness to our hobby. I don't recall how to search the Wiki for Geocities links (when I'm not admin) so it might be left to someone else to search for them.

Or someone might know of someone that actually used Geocities to put up their (interesting) cab build or something.

If that isn't the case, feel free to ignore me.  ;D

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I'll start mirroring sites. It would help if people would point out sites that need mirroring. Right now I think I broke them. I was mirroring and suddenly all of Geocities is offline :)
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I don't think it was you. I was trying to mirror another (non-arcade) site and it too went offline. Checked another Geocities hosted site and it was still online. As near as I can tell Geocities set their max data transfer threshold at an insanely low level. Either everyone and their grandmother is trying to mirror these sites or Geocities set their threshold to something like 10MB.  ???

SavannahLion:
They might see someone trying to "pound" their servers and just simply cut them off. I tried to randomize my connection times, but well... I guess I didn't do something right because it sure as hell didn't wait between 1-2 seconds before making another request.

saint:

--- Quote from: RayB on September 13, 2009, 01:27:27 pm ---You can Google search JUST geocities.com like this:

arcade site:geocities.com

There are 18,400 results. It's gonna take a while to find all the resources worth saving. Who's volunteering?  :)

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That's actually the exact search I did, so far I've archived 10 or so sites. If anyone has a specific recommendation please holler :)

saint:
Yeah, I think that's what they've done (bandwidth capping).

protokatie:
I did a google for MAME site:geocities.com and got some good sites. The first on the list was:

http://www.geocities.com/mamehelp/

which has a MAME for dummies PDF file.

Might be good to mirror a few under that search.

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