[game_preservation] Geocities goes under...was anything worth archiving?

[Andrew Armstrong]

Not just that, but fansites of games, especially more obscure ones, seem 
to only be on hosted sites like Geocities. They weren't all bad sites.

Hmm, at least I hope the IA web crawler has a lot of the sites 
downloaded over that time period. I doubt Yahoo will be willing to 
partner and provide some real access to those old sites, sadly.

Andrew

Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> Sure. Lots of veteran game developers set up little personal sites on 

> Geocities back in the late 90s/early 2000s, I would think that sort of 

> thing is worth saving. I've come across quite a few in my research, 

> and can tell you that sometimes the only public source of information 

> on an unfinished game project is in personal portfolios like those.

>

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com 

> <mailto:dmonnens at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

>     Well, Geocities has finally gone under. The true question at this

>     point is:

>

>     Was there anything really worth saving?

>

>     http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/2339224&from=rss

>     <http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/2339224&from=rss>

>

>     -Devin Monnens

>

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