If you hold n't heard, Geocities is shutting on October 26, 2009. This is nighly two hebdomads forth. For many, this is an terminal of an epoch. Geocities holds played host to a good deal of unparalleled content that you can not bump elsewhere on little niche websites maked by somebodies and little organisation. Many of these sites were maked in the late Ninetieses and early 2000s when web hosting was much more cost prohibitory. Geocities offered an option to it job. As people 's interests altered, as clip moved on, they halted updating their pages for a salmagundi of grounds.

Geocities keeps to be a treasure trove of the arcane info. Fan communities, genealogy communities, history communities, fans, school groupings are attending lose a good deal info.

Fan communities are attending lose their history: What maked those Passionatenesses sites look like back in the 1990s? They were sprayed with purpleness dorsum evidences. Crewman Moon sites were image heavy and holded a good deal of fancy HTML for their clip.

Genealogy groupings are attending lose manus indited lists of people buried at village graveyards, people 's genealogy and other types of records that people amassed applying offline origins. For people looking for info

The history community is attending lose much of original research in many countries including fan communities, sports, military, women 's surveys and more.

Geocities was place to a thriving sports community. People maked websites for their nines, indited the history of their squads,etc. Some of this info ne'er transmigrate to new official sites for those organisation or to other resources for the sportsmanlike community. Australian Rules Football, underwater hockey and handball are three sports communities that are attending be hugely ached by this.

There hold been four really seeable endeavor to assay to uphold this history that I am cognisant of. They are:

• Archive Team : Making a back up of all sites on Geocities.
• Fan History Wiki : Screencapping fansites. Making articles about equally many fansites hosted on Geocities as possible. Making articles about stories archived on Geocities as possible. Making stub articles about fan fiction archives hosted on Geocities Bumping historical definitions of fannish terminology to track definitional alterations.
• Organization for Transformative Works : Continuing info on fansites and archives by screencapping, adding articles about those sites to Fanlore and offering hosting to fansites on Geocities smarted by this closing.
• The Genealogy community : Several people in the Genealogy community are seeking assorted saving endeavours including the Lousiana Genealogy Blog

There makes not look to hold been any pushing for assay to continue info of local involvement in many communities. It would be grotesque if people in OR would travel through the 43,200 plus pages that reference Oregon on Geocities and assay to place pages that hold info that can not be happened elsewhere, screencap this info or otherwise salve it to another location. As clip licences after Geocities nearly, it would so be fantastical to incorporate the relieved info in to articles on about Oregon on Wikipedia and other wiki tasks. Some subjects that might be of involvement for people in OR that are covered on Geocities but not also as they could get on Wikipedia include GLBT activism in the province, info on historical edifices, info on province zoology, and info about nines located in the province. If it is n't salved in some descriptor before Oct 26, 2009, this info may be lost eternally.

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