Geocities Archive

Re:Geocities Archive by cryptoz on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:23PM (#20772489)

In 1998-1999 or so, starwars.com and Homestead teamed up to make the fan.starwars.com/ wysisyg fan websites. I loved mine and it's been gone for ~20 years, with seemingly no chance at all of an archive. Hardly anyone seems to remember these in the first place, star wars fans and nerds included. Maybe some day.

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Re:Geocities Archive by geocities on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:51PM (#20773446)

It's insane how all the early internet has effectively been destroyed with absolutely no recourse of ever getting any of it back :(

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Re:Geocities Archive by stebann on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:48AM (#20777549)

I feel the same that you describe. I was a kid in early 2000's and many things I used to access were not preserved in anyway. I'm so sad about it. That's why I mirror the sites nowadays. The problem is that sites are bigger now are harder to spider sometimes.

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Re:Geocities Archive by empyrical on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:48PM (#20773966)

Do you remember what your username was there? There's a slight chance the WayBack Machine got it

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fan.starwars.com/*

edit: oh wow, looks like these archives seem to all be broken because of the javascript they used

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Re:Geocities Archive by cryptoz on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:01PM (#20774221)

Interesting! I think I found my username there, but yeah, nothing loads :(. It's probably gone forever, unless someone close to it specifically backed it all up. Oh well.

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