Author Topic: Geocities closing their doors (Read 2623 times)

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.

Malenko · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2009, 11:27:08 pm »

I thought they closed years ago, I had a page there back when I was a freshman in high school! it used to be /SiliconValley/Park/6302 I think. I used to actually have a pretty strong following for my Nintendo 64 review section...oh the memories!

protokatie · « **Reply #2 on:** September 13, 2009, 12:24:48 am »

Why is GeoCities closing? No money in it? Or is it that it isn't 1996 anymore?

SavannahLion · « **Reply #3 on:** September 13, 2009, 01:24:21 am »

Quote from: protokatie on September 13, 2009, 12:24:48 am

Why is GeoCities closing? No money in it? Or is it that it isn't 1996 anymore?

Both

saint · « **Reply #4 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.

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

Malenko · « **Reply #5 on:** September 13, 2009, 11:26:29 am »

just checked, and its October 26th:

"GEOCITIES IS CLOSING ON OCTOBER 26, 2009.
New GeoCities accounts are no longer available.
Tired of ads on your site? Want more feature?"

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #6 on:** September 13, 2009, 12:31:31 pm »

That site has been dead to me for like a decade.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #7 on:** September 13, 2009, 01:12:37 pm »

I gave up on them years ago as well. Heck, seemed like any time I found a link to a GeoCities site it was dead anyways.

RayB · « **Reply #8 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?

RayB · « **Reply #9 on:** September 13, 2009, 02:04:05 pm »

Stuff like this really needs archiving:

http://www.geocities.com/buckrogers_nz/arcade.html?200913

SavannahLion · « **Reply #10 on:** September 13, 2009, 02:54:41 pm »

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.

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

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 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 13, 2009, 03:10:57 pm »

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 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 13, 2009, 08:29:59 pm »

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?

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 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 13, 2009, 08:31:35 pm »

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

protokatie · « **Reply #14 on:** September 13, 2009, 10:12:10 pm »

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.

saint · « **Reply #15 on:** September 13, 2009, 10:48:29 pm »

Thanks, that is next on my todo list

OK, this site is now online:

http://geocities.arcadecontrols.com/

You can go to it to see if a site you think should be mirrored has already been mirrored.

Quote

Quick and dirty front page (for now)

Looking for a geocities site to see if it's been mirrored? Here's how:

Take the complete address of the site, and prepend http://geocities.arcadecontrols.com/ to the front of it.

For instance, http://www.geocities.com/ddrhomepad/ becomes
http://geocities.arcadecontrols.com/www.geocities.com/ddrhomepad/

There is no coding or logic involved in the translation, so be sure you have the URL exactly right. For instance, although:

http://www.geocities.com/ddrhomepad/
http://geocities.com/ddrhomepad/

both take you to the same site on Geocities, the only manner in which it's mirrored here is with the "www" in the name.

This link will work.
http://geocities.arcadecontrols.com/www.geocities.com/ddrhomepad/

This link will not work!
http://geocities.arcadecontrols.com/geocities.com/ddrhomepad/

Think there should be a site mirrored here that isn't yet? Shoot saint an email asap before they disappear!

Note - any content holders who object to their site being mirrored please email me and I will take the mirror down.

--- saint

SavannahLion · « **Reply #16 on:** September 14, 2009, 02:43:42 am »

Quote from: saint on September 13, 2009, 08:31:35 pm

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

Jesus, and here I thought they raised their cap up to at least 2000 levels.

protokatie · « **Reply #17 on:** September 14, 2009, 04:41:51 am »

I wonder if the wayback machine people are aware of this? This sort of archival is up their alley. Maybe we should petition with them to keep geocities open long enough to archive the site (not just for us arcade-wannabes, but for posteriors)

saint · « **Reply #18 on:** September 14, 2009, 11:03:16 am »

Quote from: pinballjim on September 14, 2009, 09:43:54 am

I've got some stupid Geocities stuff I need to archive, I guess.

This?

http://geocities.arcadecontrols.com/www.geocities.com/pinballjim2000/

Ummon · « **Reply #19 on:** September 15, 2009, 11:19:33 pm »

I saw it in the mid 90s and was surprised to still see it '02. Geo was SO 90s.

jim, the image on that old TV looks pretty good despite the RF deal.


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