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Aw. It seems like they have samples of all of CapeCanaveral communities except "Launchpad" which was of course the coolest. It just returns a page not found.
Every time I see a GeoCities archive, I look for my old site, which I could have sworn was at TimesSquare/9994, but it's never there. Were inactive accounts purged at some point and it got flushed away before people started mirroring GeoCities? Or is it more likely that I just don't properly remember what my page URL was?
This gallery has scrubbed any sites that didn't have an index.html, but the directory listing sites should be restored in a future version.
I had some colocation in Exodus 1 next to the Geocities cage. They used thousands of SCSI Lacie consumer drives connected to Sun workstations in a cage about 10'x10'. And a large fan blowing all that heat into their neighbor's cage.
Found some pictures of this. While the wiring is a bit of a mess, it seemed to have been fairly well managed overall. Or at least it wasn't completely cluttered. http://www.detritus.org/mike/gc/
Every time I see a GeoCities archive, I look for my old site, which I could have sworn was at TimesSquare/9994, but it's never there. Were inactive accounts purged at some point and it got flushed away before people started mirroring GeoCities? Or is it more likely that I just don't properly remember what my page URL was?
It looks like it's there but there wasn't an index.html: https://web.archive.org/web/20010522100243/http://www.geocit... This gallery has scrubbed any sites that didn't have an index.html, but the directory listing sites should be restored in a future version.
Looks like Archive.org didn't archive any of the files, only the directory listing. Kinda worried what body.gif was. >.>
I used GeoCities extensively to host my sites, but I was only 9 or 10 years old, so it never occurred to me what these are for. Now I'm thinking if they were sharding hosting servers by URL routes.
Anyone know why GeoCities has these "categories" and subcategories under them and not something like geocities.com/{NUMBER} ? Was it randomly assigned or chosen by users I used GeoCities extensively to host my sites, but I was only 9 or 10 years old, so it never occurred to me what these are for. Now I'm thinking if they were sharding hosting servers by URL routes.
Anyone know why GeoCities has these "categories" and subcategories under them and not something like geocities.com/{NUMBER} ? Was it randomly assigned or chosen by users I used GeoCities extensively to host my sites, but I was only 9 or 10 years old, so it never occurred to me what these are for. Now I'm thinking if they were sharding hosting servers by URL routes.
I remember when I tried to sign up they had a beta "empty plot search" so you didn't have to spend ages looking for a plot. IIRC it didn't work for me and I went to Angelfire or something.
It quickly became really popular as a free web host (which was rare at the time) and they toned down the cities/communities aspect in favor of pure hosting.
edit: I tried to find the neighborhood map on the internet archive but it seems hidden behind imagemaps and CGI scripts that didn't make it into the archive. This is as far as I got: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703013607/http://www15.geoc... You can also see some of the community aspect here https://web.archive.org/web/19970703013533/http://www15.geoc...
Anyone know why GeoCities has these "categories" and subcategories under them and not something like geocities.com/{NUMBER} ? Was it randomly assigned or chosen by users I used GeoCities extensively to host my sites, but I was only 9 or 10 years old, so it never occurred to me what these are for. Now I'm thinking if they were sharding hosting servers by URL routes.
That was my initial thought as well, but it doesn't look like it from how a few remembrance sites describe matters: https://www.bladesplace.id.au/geocities-neighborhoods-suburb...
I miss the old internet.