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SAughton

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Web archivers to preserve GeoCities

A group of web conservationists have begun the huge task of preserving GeoCities for posterity.

http://www.macuser.co.uk/news/252117

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Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:10 am

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Re: Web archivers to preserve GeoCities

The Register’s coverage of this made me smile, once it dawned on me what they’d done: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28 ... servation/

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Re: Web archivers to preserve GeoCities


	SAughton wrote: The Register’s coverage of this made me smile, once it dawned on me what they’d done: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28 ... servation/

Netscape! *laugh*
It's only funny because it's true.

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Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:12 am

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Re: Web archivers to preserve GeoCities

It’s a keeper, so it is.

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Re: Web archivers to preserve GeoCities

timark_uk wrote:


	SAughton wrote: The Register’s coverage of this made me smile, once it dawned on me what they’d done: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28 ... servation/

Netscape! *laugh*
It's only funny because it's true.

Mark

Too right, that article took me right back to the late 90s.

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