Did you have a GeoCities website before Yahoo! closed it down last week?

Feeling nostalgic?

If so, fear not, because a lot of the massive online neighbourhood has been rescued and now lives on at Reocities.com.

There’s a fantastic timeline of the making of Reocities which proves that it was no mean feat to pull off.

Read about fun with wget, Geocities bandwidth caps, broken links, spam sites, Greasemonkey scripts, and more.

The idea of preserving Geocities as Reocities is that any links to the now dead Geocities should, in theory, only require one letter to be changed — from G to R — for the link to continue to function.

Of course, there’ll be some discrepancies and omissions, but it’s a great project that preserves a whole section of the early web.

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