Comments on: The missing links: GeoCities dies and millions of inbound links disappear tomorrow

By: Paul Silver

Paul Silver — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:51:59 +0000

There are (at least) two projects trying to ‘save’ Geocities – reocities.com and geociti.es – it’ll be interesting to see if either of these get any traction, but I don’t believe they’ll ever get the number of incoming links Geocities had, let alone the age of those links.

I’m not sure why Yahoo didn’t do a deal with the Internet Archive Project to take it off their hands and keep the content up. While the web industry has a very negative view of Geocities, there was a lot of good info buried away in there by people who were using it for it’s original purpose – an ‘easy’ way to get web pages up.

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The Hotspotter » Geocities Permanently Evacuated — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:24:34 +0000

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