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  1. GeoCities Oral History #3. Jennifer Pursley | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    I love these. This interview is with the “ringmaster” of the Anti-Titanic Webring.

  2. The oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world’s first memes | CBC Arts

    I was looking up Hampsterdance two days ago but didn’t see this article. A bit bonkers. And nice GIF illustrations. (via b3ta newsletter)

  3. Geo for Bootstrap, a Timeless Theme by Divshot

    A GeoCities-style Bootstrap theme. File under ideas I wish I’d had. (via Ask MetaFilter)

  4. GeoCities Oral History. Interview #2 | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    A nice interview with someone about the site they made on GeoCities in the 1990s.

  5. “is death for WEB sites as us” | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    “it just kills me that they took a wonderful, friendly community like Geocities and just smashed it to bits. Yahoo, you STINK!”

  6. Is 1024×768 showing more or less than 800×600? | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    “800×600 is like a beauty filter for web pages of all ages. Looking at the web through it you get sentimental. … On a bigger screenshot you see how the amateur web was shrinking and shriveling…”

  7. The Deleted City 3.0

    Zoomable map of the GeoCities filesystem. (via FlowingData)

  8. Cameron’s World

    It appears that I haven’t bookmarked this before, which is an oversight.

  9. Geocities as Style and Marketing Gimmick @divshot | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    I’ve had “Geocities WordPress theme” as a “someday” project for ages. Maybe I should cross it off now. Geocities styles for Twitter Bootstrap and Tumblr.

  10. Authenticity/Access | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    On how historical web pages (such as Geocities) appear differently now, even if you have all the original assets. eg, browser rendering, text anti-aliasing, MIDI audio, screen resolutions, etc.

  11. Geocities-izer - Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996

    “Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996”

  12. Holy Joan! | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    A handful of GeoCities pages still exist at GeoCities.com… and the possibility that maybe this means all the rest exist, and are just blocked, rather than deleted.

  13. The First Year of Frames

    I completely forgot sites used to offer the choice of “Frames or No Frames”.

  14. Copyright (One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)

    top geocities copyright graphics gif archives archiving

  15. One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent

    A blog outlining some peoples’ explorations of the torrent of all the archived GeoCities data. Some lovely old bits of early web archaeology in there.

  16. ASCII by Jason Scott / Archiveteam! The Geocities Torrent

    There will be a 900GB torrent of all of the Geocities content that Archiveteam managed to save before the idiots at Yahoo turned it off. Wonderful. Wonderful. Could archive.org host it…? (via @antimega)

  17. Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities…

    Wonderful - one guy raced to copy all of GeoCities. Worth reading ‘Making of’. He should win medals, awards, certificates, etc. (via Kottke)

  18. “Petty” » Rescued Geocities ‘Fry and Laurie’ Scripts

    It’s not only nice that he’s rescued another GeoCities site, but that it’s one I remember visiting a lot back in the day and had completely forgotten.

  19. DreamHost Blog » They’re Internet History

    More stuff about the history of GeoCities and WebRing. (via Waxy)

  20. ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Lessons So Far

    Not just for the good stuff about archiving Geocities, but also about the history of the site and its structure. (via Waxy)

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