In August, we first posted about the Internet Archive (IA) asking GeoCities users to make sure their content was archived by the IA. Why? As of yesterday, GeoCities is no longer online.
Yahoo, which acquired the site for $3.57bn (£2.17bn) in 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom, said sites would no longer be accessible from 26th October.
However, many of the pages have been archived and will still be available to view via the nonprofit Internet Archive project.
The giant digital library, which has been archiving the public web since 1996, has set up a special project to archive GeoCities before it is lost forever.
“We’ve collected a lot of GeoCities sites over the years – but might not have every site and every page,” the Internet Archive said.
Source: BBC
See Also: Saving a Historical Record of GeoCities (via Internet Archive)
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