<story><title>Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/1999/01/28/technology/yahoo_a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from &lt;a href=&quot;http://reocities.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://reocities.com/&lt;/a&gt; , simply append your old url. There is a &apos;self service&apos; bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily.&lt;p&gt;From a commercial point of view it is a complete failure but the emails from happy people that I keep getting about the project are more than enough payment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>If you can&apos;t find it on reocities, try &lt;a href=&quot;http://oocities.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://oocities.com&lt;/a&gt; as well. No idea which generally has more or if they both have pretty solid collections. My lame 12-year-old music fan site is preserved on both!</text></comment>
<story><title>Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/1999/01/28/technology/yahoo_a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from &lt;a href=&quot;http://reocities.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://reocities.com/&lt;/a&gt; , simply append your old url. There is a &apos;self service&apos; bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily.&lt;p&gt;From a commercial point of view it is a complete failure but the emails from happy people that I keep getting about the project are more than enough payment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dietrichepp</author><text>Ugh.  I think my old page had a &quot;Free Kevin Mitnick&quot; banner next to an animated gif that said &quot;Made with Macintosh&quot;.  Not that these clues narrow it down very much, if you want to find my page.</text></comment>