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Poster:
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JacobZhu
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Date:
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October 18, 2009 02:59:49am
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Forum:
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web
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Re: Geocities Love!
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Yes, I have also used WinHTTrack to download my Geocities site, and it was very quick. The directory structure is slightly changed, but there may be a way to have it keep the original structure. I will try again with different settings.
Besides, I have found two hosts that offer automatic migration of Geocities sites - webring.com and ucoz.com (see ucoz's http://geocities-closing.com/) I have already migrated my site to Webring. It worked fine. They have just added the words "Hosted by Webring" at the bottom of every page, and they have even automatically changed my webring registrations (you don't have to have any) to the new URL!
If you have orphan files in your Geocities directories with no links to them from your pages, these programs and sites may not be able to find them, so watch out for that.
But anyway damn Yahoo for closing Geocities down. It can hardly be a great burden on their bandwidth. If they don't want Geocities any more, why can't they sell it or just give it to someone else to run? And surely since they insist on closing it they should make FTP available to users for downloading the content.
Appreciation to the Internet Archive, Webring and Ucoz for their efforts to preserve at least some of Geocities. |
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