The free web hosting service GeoCities will be archived (around 900 GB of data) and released on the BitTorrent by
Archive Team one year after Yahoo! shut it down.
Launched in 1995, GeoCities was acquired by Yahoo! Four years later for $3.57 billion in stock. The Internet giant shut down the service last year.
"It’s not like Yahoo! had some sort of terrible server failure or something," said the Archive Team. "They in fact had made the active decision to turn off the site called GeoCities, an at-that-point 15 year old hosting site that contained terabytes of user-generated content."
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Re: Last one to post wins the internets
Yeah, I got a good laugh after that last one!
Stehle Today, 01:14 AM