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ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

Source: Mashable!

Oct 28, 2009

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GeoCities may have been a relic from the 90s, but to many it was and still is an important online place for their user-created communities and memories.

The Yahoo-owned service officially shutdown earlier this week, but one determined and caffeinated individual set out to save GeoCities content, with help from friends, in just six days.

The project, dubbed ReoCities was an adventure to recover and restore GeoCities pages prior to the October 26th shutdown date set by Yahoo. While not everything has been recovered, there is a fairly substantial collection of cities, neighborhoods, and houses that have been saved, or are in the process of being restored.

You can read about the entire massive undertaking on the Reocities site. The detailed account describes how the project came to be, and how it evolved from just one fan’s desire to save the Silicon Valley area of GeoCities to a full on GeoCities restoration effort.

Here’s a brief excerpt from day two of the endeavor:

“The 10,000 directories per neighborhood scheme worked well for GeoCities: with only 721 such Neig

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