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I really hate Yahoo. When they bought Geocities they changed my user name that had 64 in it to 63 automatically. What a stupid number. Then, because I didn't log into it within a certain time frame, they up and deleted all my content. It was the first (and only, really, besides school requirement...) personal website I ever built, in 6th grade. It had all the cool images, gifs, midis I had gathered on the internet and I even created custom gifs for it. I even copy pasted some javascript code to make my gifs animate when moused over.

Even though I only used the email account they automatically set up for me for junk registrations (my main mail was already @home/attbi/comcast before they bought geocities, then gmail when that was created), I ended up making a second yahoo account with a name that wasn't lame (which I still used for junk registrations, and other random things, but moreso than the one automatically created). One day the password on that second email account suddenly changed. I used the same password on both the accounts for years with zero sign of infiltration. I still continue to use accounts tied to the one with the mysteriously changed password. I did everything I could to get that one back with no luck. Maybe I was compromised by some hacker? I do recall during my efforts being asked by yahoo support something along the lines of "is this your main account?". There was never anybody that I could talk to, only text support, and most of my attempts/ticket submissions went ignored. Maybe they think I'm a hacker.

In the end, nothing but bitter feelings toward Yahoo for me.




The only thing tying me to Yahoo at all anymore is Flickr, and I somewhat hope it goes under just so I get some sort of archival download of my content and a reason to finally find something better.


They don't have built-in "archival" downloading, but they allow other apps to do it for you. The free version of Bulkr will grab your photos, and the paid version will include tags etc. https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/72157622874451890/


I highly recommend Bulkr; I used it to pull ~100GB of photos/videos out of Flickr, and back them up to Glacier.


I've have heard many people say not to nuke your users data. I guess big companies lose sight of their user's wants and needs.


This is true in some cases, but I gotta say I'm glad myspace seems to have nuked everything I left on there from middle school except a profile pic. It would be horrid if that stuff was left up for the world to see and I'd forgotten my log in credentials to delete it.


They sorta did. Pictures are actually still there but hard to if not impossible to find. They might have just took the links out.

If you can find a pic in google image search and pick "visit site", you can scroll through the albums.


+1 for middle school website-building nostalgia.


Ugh, I feel old. CERN apparently put up the first website when I was in middle school.


Don't feel bad, I had already graduated college. I was pretty happy about it given there was no way I was going to use gopher being a Univ of NoDak alumni. :)

Assembler class on an IBM/370 was kinda fun.


Did anyone else here get their start on expage and funkychickens?


Have you been able to find any of it in the internet archive?


I was actually expecting this question. I have spent several hours looking for it already, but it seems that mine was missed. I do have a Sysquest cartridge (tape drives like Zip disks) from that period that might have a lot of it, I just need to figure out how to interface with the SCSI reader.

If anybody happens to know something I don't about finding websites, the title of it was "Slasher's Realm" and I believe it was in TimesSquare somewhere, maybe under chasm or tower. Edit: ahh yeah, it seems like mine wasn't crawled before it got deleted http://www.reocities.com/timessquare/chasm/1788/


https://code.google.com/p/warrick/

Warrick will rebuild the site using the Momento framework (which The Archive uses).

If you'd like (free) help, my details are in my profile. This is the sort of stuff I live for.


The Geocities take down was announced well in advance, and I recall dozens of groups attempting to archive all or most of it. Search for "geocities archive" and you will see a number of archives.

I hope you find what you lost. Let us all remember to keep local backups. :)




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