GeoCities Project

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Upon the news of the closing of GeoCities by Yahoo, Archive Team initiated the GeoCities Project, a coordinated effort to rescue as much of GeoCities' data as possible off the to-be-decomissioned GeoCities servers. This project was begun in April of 2009, and continued throughout the summer of 2009 up to the closing date of October 26, 2009 by Yahoo. A list of Frequently Asked Questions about this project was generated and is available Here.

Parallel to our efforts (and in conjunction with them) archive.org began a major "deep crawl" of GeoCities to add to their wayback machine. The page for their project is here. Please note that Archive Team and archive.org are 100% separate entities, with different approaches to the project of saving data and history.

It can not be stressed enough how many people were involved with this project - some preferred to be behind the scenes, while Jason Scott continued his habit of being a complete media hog, getting a lot of the interviews and face time with people asking what was up. But there were dozens of people involved, and they supplied weeks of time and effort to find efficient ways to download all of this data before it was removed.

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