The Geocities Gallery

dang wrote: post #4

By coincidence, I ran across this last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cameronsworld.net https://www.cameronsworld.net/

Love that site! That was made by Cameron Askin if anyone is interested: https://www.cameronaskin.info/

Re: The Geocities Gallery

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Post by kyledrake » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

cowboycoder_ wrote: post #5

This is really cool. Would love to know more about the restoration process and if there is any way to contribute to the project as a developer

Haven't gotten to it yet, but eventually going to https://github.com/restorativland and will be open source. In the interim, the current mess of random code I'm using is here (a little out of date ATM): https://github.com/kyledrake/geocities-archive-toolshed

I've had to do a lot of starting from scratch as I find new issues and discover better ways to solve existing ones, but once I get it figured it out, it will work for other 90s sites too, and I'm hoping to release them more as general use tools than just scripts.

Re: The Geocities Gallery

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Post by kyledrake » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #6

https://blog.geocities.institute/ has been doing analyses of Geocities images, page design, character encoding etc.

Recommend following https://twitter.com/GIFmodel and https://twitter.com/despens. A lot of the code for cleaning up the archive torrent came from them (the original torrent was a really nasty mess, it took a lot of work to clean it up).

Re: The Geocities Gallery

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Post by yllus » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 10:25 PM UTC

Aw, my couch co-op (before it was really even named that) focused gaming website wasn't featured in the gallery:

https://geocities.restorativland.org/TimesSquare/Arcade/2516...