'Geocities Archive', a project to restore the homepage of the free web space 'Yahoo! Geocities' to the present day
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Geocities Archive / Geocities Mirror-Yahoo Geocities History Website
https://www.geocitiesarchive.org/default.aspx
GeoCities was launched in November 1994 by Beverly Hills Internet, later renamed “GeoCities”. Geocities has a free web space classified as a “community” according to themes, and it is also characterized by creating a URL by assigning the number corresponding to the address of the address, and it was exactly a service that imagined a virtual city on the Internet. In addition, not only can the public make a personal home pages for free, also there can be elements are also easy to install, such as supporting the online community, such as chat and message boards, GeoCities is showing rapid growth, in five years from the service start AOL After Yahoo !, it was the third most visited website on the World Wide Web.
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In January 1999, Yahoo! acquired GeoCities at a price of $ 3.57 billion (approximately 410 billion yen at that rate), and GeoCities was reborn as Yahoo! GeoCities. However, many users have repelled Yahoo! 'S management posture, such as stating that Yahoo!' S contents are all owned by Yahoo! A plan to provide vanity URLs only to premium members was announced by Yahoo !, and rumors that Yahoo! Geocities would be closed flowed.
On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would stop registering as a new member of Yahoo! Geocities and will stop the service on October 26, 2009. Many users were unable to make a copy of the website because it was only half a year after the notification of the outage. The Geocities Archive states that the history of the early days of the Internet, which lasted 15 years since 1994, was destroyed overnight.
The headquarters of “Yahoo! Geocities” famous for free HP space closed, and what was lost-GIGAZINE
Geocities Archive stores not only the United States (us.geocities.com) but also Brazil (br.geocities.com), Canada (ca.geocities.com), and Quebec (cf.geocities.com)・ Germany (de.geocities.com) ・ Spain (es.geocities.com) ・ Hong Kong (hk.geocities.com) ・ India (in.geocities.com) ・ Italy (it.geocities.com) ・ Korea (kr. geocities.com), Mexico (mx.geocities.com), Singapore (sg.geocities.com), United Kingdom (uk.geocities.com). You can search websites by username or community name. However, because the project is ongoing, many sites do not have text or images.
Jason Scott, who had copied the Geocities website shortly after the announcement of the closure, reported in 2010 that the Geocities archive was 652GB in size with compression. Geocities Archive commented, `` This project is an attempt to restore (and perhaps laugh)) part of the lost data so that future generations can see it, '' he said. He also states that Geocities is being restored as an important document.
By the way, before the acquisition of GeoCities by Yahoo! in June 1997, a Japanese corporation Geocities Co., Ltd. was established as a joint venture with Softbank, and the Japanese version of Geocities was started. In March 2000, Geocities Corporation merged with Yahoo Japan Corporation and was renamed “Yahoo! Geocities” and continued its service. Yahoo! Geocities continued to provide services after the overseas version was suspended in 2009, but ended on March 31, 2019 due to problems with profitability and systems. For that reason, the Japanese version of the website is not archived in Geocities Archive.
Free homepage service `` Yahoo! Geocities '' ends at the end of March 2019-GIGAZINE
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