xkcd today - Geocities homage

[grit]

Couple of Hundred Quid < Cost of archiving geocities < £3.5 billion

Pretty much yeah

 

[JWH]

Actually Yahoo only paid silly money for it because they thought it would eventually turn a profit. It wouldn't be worth naff all as a going concern now. And it certainly wouldn't cost £3.5B just to archive all the files.</body>

I know that! I wasn't suggesting that the $3.5bn (not £) was all for storage...

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[King Biscuit Time]

OK Gotcha

(NB - Gif was taken from here which is not only a classic of the genre, but is also hosted by geocities and still online! - check the download button for netscape navigator 2.0)

 

[salem]

There is some hope -

According to the LA Times -

The group of dedicated digital historians have been pointing about a hundred computers at the GeoCities domain 24 hours a day for months. First, the machines crawled the neighborhoods, duplicating copies of everything in sight.

"The hard part was going through and trying to find random user names," Scott said about the obstacle Yahoo introduced later in GeoCities' life. "Basically, we're hitting Google and crawling in every direction."

So far, Archiveteam has captured about a terabyte of data, or about a thousand gigabytes, in its mission of mirroring the entire site.

Shame they are having to pretty much guess locations but I guess there is probably a reason, perhaps something in the terms and conditions which don't allow Yahoo to pass on the data or something.

 

[gentlegreen]

Flippin 'eck - it's Dejanews all over again
(There are things I posted on USENET that I rather wish I'd put "X-No-Archive" on )