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/
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.
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. :)
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/
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. :)
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.