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Remember Angelfire as well?
Remember Maxpages as well?
Ahhhh I am getting so nostalgic. Remember when the HTML marquee tag was a thing.
Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
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Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
#72If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from http://reocities.com/ , simply append your old url. There is a 'self service' bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you. It's been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily. From a commercial point of view it is a complete failur…
How much does it cost you to host it? How do you host it (from compressed archives)?
It's all static, no compression (just one large xfs file tree), it costs a few hundred euros per month. At the time the server (20T) was quite expensive, one of these days it will have to be re-done and fortunately storage costs have come down quite a bit so the per-month write off on the server will be (a lot) lower.
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
#73Fred Wilson has a fantastic post on the funding story behind Geocities (wow, that guy's been around for a long time)
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
#74Geocities was my first website! As long as no one ever sees it/knows it was me who made what was quite possibly the ugliest website in the world, all I'll have is fond memories.
Congrats on the sale ! Have you got any of the $3.6 billion left ?
No, I put in it all in to pets.com and beenz unfourunately. :(
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
#75If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from http://reocities.com/ , simply append your old url. There is a 'self service' bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you. It's been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily. From a commercial point of view it is a complete failur…
Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I get a "page not found (yet)" (when I attempt to get to my old site) which suggests that you're still in the process of restoring pages. Is this still the case? Or do I assume that my data is long gone at this point.
Edit: Even if my data is gone, I really appreciate what you've done; and I'm sure others do too. Wish Yahoo had shuttered it more gracefully.
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
#76If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from http://reocities.com/ , simply append your old url. There is a 'self service' bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you. It's been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily. From a commercial point of view it is a complete failur…
Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I get a "page not found (yet)" (when I attempt to get to my old site) which suggests that you're still in the process of restoring pages. Is this still the case? Or do I assume that my data is long gone at this point. Edit: Even if my data is gone, I really appreciate what you've done; and I'm sure others do too. Wish Yahoo had shuttered it more gracefully.
I am really sorry, unfortunately it is pretty safe to assume the data is long gone unless one of the other preservation efforts snagged it.
I have very long list of wanted sites but only a handful of those were recovered in the last year (mostly from local caches on old pc's).
I don't think the archive will every be completed.
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
#77Fun fact: the stock used to buy GeoCities would still be worth billions of dollars, even if the vesting/lock-in schedule was extraordinarily long. Anyway, the interesting thing about a lot of the big late '90s dot-com acquisitions that now look like sheer insanity is that they were all a product of everyone latching onto what they thought the current "big thing" was. Back then it was portals, aggregation, hosting, an…
What will the Instagram acquisition look like in 10 years time?
It already looks brilliant. Instagram now represents around 10% of FB users and Wall Street is assigning it a corresponding value of ~10% of the company i.e. over $6 Billion (just rough math to make a point).
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
#78If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from http://reocities.com/ , simply append your old url. There is a 'self service' bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you. It's been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily. From a commercial point of view it is a complete failur…
I love the story about how you did all this, especially considering the time constraint of Geocities shutting down in a couple of days: http://www.reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html
Awesome job!
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
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What will the Instagram acquisition look like in 10 years time?
It already looks brilliant. Instagram now represents around 10% of FB users and Wall Street is assigning it a corresponding value of ~10% of the company i.e. over $6 Billion (just rough math to make a point).
Comparing one vastly overvalued company to another vastly overvalued company isn't going to help anyone.
Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)
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For the history books, Yahoo's M&A has been more trend-defining than anybody else. Geocities in 1999 -- spawned the dot com rush Flickr (2005) -- the official web 2.0 start date! Tumblr (2013) -- ???
I'm not sure what you mean by the "dot com rush" but if there was a singular "dot com" starting-gun, it was the Netscape IPO a few years earlier.
And "web 2.0" was mostly "started" with gmail in 2004