Reocities: The making of [Geocities archive] Race against the clock

[Triple Zero]

Cool story about a run against the clock. Geocities gave users a week or two (?) to backup their old sites, this guy realized in the last week that "wait, I should probably try to back up ALL of it" and a race against the clock began, when sometimes 30mb/s was not enough:

http://reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html

[bds]

Fuck, that's cool.

[Kai]

This is really heartwarming, and honestly brings a tear to my eye.

I'm such a bibliophile.

[Triple Zero]

There's also a ~1TB torrent of Geocities going around, btw. But that would be much less complete than Reocities.

If you absolutely must find your old sites again, from comments at Hackernews I got the impression that the guy has no problems running a custom text query for you, if you know just a few choice phrases on your sites. That was a year ago when he just made it, though.

[Remington]

That's awesome 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Neat!

I was kind of bummed that neither me nor my neighbor Drunkgirl are there.