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Is there anything like this for Homestead.com? I can't remember any Geocities URL's
Homestead is still up and running, though we did start culling sites that had no visits and no logins a while ago. (I was a co-founder of Homestead.)
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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.
As for my site; I'm sure I have backup's (somewhere :) of the really valuable data. It's just more for taking a look at My First Website and reeling at the horror more than anything else.
This is very relevant now because rumors are that Yahoo is about to buy Tumblr for over a billion dollars. If they only took care of Geocities they would not have to buy it all over again in Tumblr form.
I know it'll never happen, but it's just funny to think, given their current trend for acqui-hires.
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Comparing one vastly overvalued company to another vastly overvalued company isn't going to help anyone.
I disagree FB is vastly overvalued. It's not undervalued but if they weren't producing real revenues and profits they would be worth ~what they have in the bank, like Zynga.
I am trying to think of the others like GeoCities. all I can think of is Tripod, Angelfire, and members.aol.com pages. there were a bunch of others back in the day.
i was a part of the team that bought GeoCities at Yahoo, and i think it wasn't as dumb of a deal as it looks on paper, because a) YHOO stock was so high at the time that the $3.8B wasn't actually all that dilutive, and b) buying GeoCities ensured Yahoo was the #1 destination online, and thus we could command a disproportionate share of ad revenue. If you wanna look at a really silly deal that Yahoo did, how about the…
By the way, thanks for posting. It's always nice to hear from people who were there at the time.
I worked for Tripod.com back in the day, which eventually sold to Lycos for about $60M, just a few months before Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.6B. Needless to say, maybe we should have held out a bit longer. The late 90's were a strange time indeed.
Remember Angelfire as well?
If 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…
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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.
You could save a lot of space by hosting from a compressed filesystem or compressed archives (eg through avfs) at the cost of some CPU cycles.
microsoft and AOL were buying browsers trying to prevent people from reaching competition
man, I'm so glad for Mozilla! and even the unsung opera.