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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.\nThe 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.\nYou 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.\nHere's a brief excerpt from day two of the endeavor:\n\n\"The 10,000 directories per neighborhood scheme worked well for GeoCities: with only 721 such Neighborhoods, a maximum of 7 210 000 accounts could be stored. But because not all of those accounts exist, and because not all are interlinked, the scheme would fail miserably if used to back up geocities.com. All you would get is the top level directories, and even then, only those that are linked. A\u00A0 Wikipedia article on GeoCities listed the top level directories (except for a few), so at least that gave me something to go on.\nIn a few minutes, on my backup machine, which has a fair bit of storage capacity, I had up and running a first script to randomly poke possible accounts to see if they were live. After a few minutes of 404s, the first accounts were hit, and fortunately, plenty of them were linking to other accounts. At this point, I was pulling about 10 Mb/s out of GeoCities. That may seem a lot, but if you take into account that there were only a few days left, it was a real problem.\"\n\nThe story is not without rise and fall and a climax with issues around time constraints and technical errors. Ultimately though, ReoCities was born and it's likely to make the diehard GeoCities fans, who adored their pages until the very end, incredibly happy. Color us impressed.\nImage from opaisson on Flickr"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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