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    Image of stiletto001 stiletto001
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    The Star Wars parody site at #16 is a parody of how the old SW official website looked right around Episode 1.

    As far as Geocities archiving goes, look to the effort done by ArchiveTeam: [www.archiveteam.org]
    and Internet Archive:
    [www.archive.org]
    as well as:
    Geohaven: [geohaven.com]
    Reocities: [reocities.com]
    InternetArchaeology: [internetarchaeology.org]

    as well as the angry rantings of Jason Scott:
    [ascii.textfiles.com]

    Hope that Meco website gets saved and relaunched. ;)
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment stiletto001 was starred stiletto001 was unstarred
    Image of Danielle Kouyoumdjian Danielle Kouyoumdjian
    10/27/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    What about the fanfiction ménage à trois that I wrote(and, in my youth, foolishly posted on a tacky Geocities site) involving myself, Mulder and Krycek? Is it truly lost to the sands of time? I feel the same way that I did when I came home from college and my parents informed me that they donated all of my Star Wars action figures to Goodwill. #fanzines
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment Danielle Kouyoumdjian was starred Danielle Kouyoumdjian was unstarred
    Image of rhmauldi rhmauldi
    10/27/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    GRUDS IN SPACE? I haven't thought about that game in a long time. It has to be one of the worst text adventures (with pictures or not) ever made.
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment rhmauldi was starred rhmauldi was unstarred
    Image of Burke Burke
    10/27/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    I was on Angelfire originally, which was just as bad. #fanzines
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment Burke was starred Burke was unstarred
    Image of frederic frederic
    10/27/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    I was reading and enjoyer the "Grand List Of Science Fiction Clichés" just a few weeks ago

    [www.geocities.com] #fanzines
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment frederic was starred frederic was unstarred
    Image of Guang Guang
    10/27/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    Wow....geocities.....I think I opened my account there eleven or twelve years ago. #fanzines
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    Dirk Anger promoted this comment Guang was starred Guang was unstarred
    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/27/09

    @Guang: I'll miss those black pages with red letters and skulls that told me how to... erm... do cool stuff #fanzines
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    *Sniffle* Aw... remember how the fancy sites would have midi's playing cloying music in the background when you went to the site and could never for the life of you find the off button?

    *sigh* nostalgia... #fanzines
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    Sunshineyness was starred Sunshineyness was unstarred
    Image of TheAlmanac TheAlmanac
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    I spent the weekend checking the remaining GeoCities links on my site devoted to fictional timelines (an old-school site in itself, really)--I still had 44 of them!

    A number of pages were gone already, but I contacted as many webmasters as I could to see about possible new URL's. Some of the email addresses bounced back, as you might expect; some didn't, and have gotten back to me already; but a couple of those have already indicated they're going to let their timelines die with GeoCities.

    It's a great shame (as you've shown) for genre sites in general, as many of those timelines have been online for over a decade, and all of that hard work is about to vanish. :( #fanzines
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment TheAlmanac was starred TheAlmanac was unstarred
    Image of yesquite yesquite
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    It's like a million under construction gifs cried out and were suddenly silenced... #fanzines
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    Sunshineyness promoted this comment yesquite was starred yesquite was unstarred
    Image of tahrey001 tahrey001
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    thanks Charlie... i've harvested the addresses off these (with a little help from zoom - your monitor must be v. high rez! - and google) and will be plugging them into my automated downloader.

    for the record... (put www.geocities.com at the start where necessary)

    athens/acropolis/3192
    rhelynn/SFC
    mecofan
    us.geocities.com/albmont/timeline.htm
    televisioncity/studio/6546
    hollywood/4196
    hollywood/6061/alt-trek.html
    televisioncity/8986
    area51/zone/3746/scarf.html
    hollywood/theater/9175/matrix101.html
    hollywood/studio/6600/bwld.html
    r_bryant42
    ussmunchkin7/Star_trek_v.htm
    gedojudea/dragon/hobbiton.html
    makai_refugees/translations.htm
    us.geocities.com/tokyo/shrine/7990/friends/friends.html
    ~mikehartmann/losthighway/index.html
    ~mikehartmann/ads.html
    ktesh_kag/SMrecipes2.htm
    Sunsetstrip/alley/7028/swosg.htm
    jjehrnwa/misc/posters_sale.txt
    asnapier/nano/n-sf/
    hollywood/4953/trout.html
    hollywood/studio/6600/bwld.html
    us.geocities.com/naran500/index.html
    area51/dimension/6453
    fantasticreviews/
    hollywood/lot/9501/
    hollywood/8929
    wellesley/4729/sound.htm
    area51/cavern/3920
    us.geocities.com/womenofsw/
    www.geocities.com/sm890.geo/
    area51/3253/regular/doohan_scotty_quotes_movie.html
    terabithia.geo/string.html
    area51/5555
    lilladn
    televisioncity/2049
    hollywood/9299
    area51/dunes/8426
    mattress00
    johndohhollywoodoutsider
    rorycoker78
    teenagealienlifeforms
    sjpaxton
    area51/lair/7268
    pb_wizardry
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    Image of redpiller redpiller
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    It's sad, and makes me nostalgic because I learned HTML by making my own site on GeoCities. Before all the other social networking sites, it was one place where you could voice your opinion and have it be "your house". #fanzines
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment redpiller was starred redpiller was unstarred
    Image of stgstgdside stgstgdside
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    check here for the archival attempts:

    [ascii.textfiles.com]
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment stgstgdside was starred stgstgdside was unstarred
    Image of LiC LiC
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    Woah, thanks for reminding me.

    I had an old site up there in 2000 - mostly dorky fan fiction, but there were some photos up there that I didn't have anywhere else. Haha, I think I found my new profile picture.

    Pain in the butt downloading it all, but I'm glad I got it. I wonder if my corny SW fics stood the test of time? *Shudders* I'll try reading it later. #fanzines
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    Sunshineyness promoted this comment LiC was starred LiC was unstarred
    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    10/26/09

    @LiC: Oh God... a lot of really shitty/embarrassing Buffy fanfic that I wrote in HS will finally be gone from the internet now with Geocities closing. Horrifying that those ancient sites for a long time were on the first page of stuff that comes up when you google my name. (I posted them before I realized you shouldn't give out your real name on uber geeky stuff.)

    Oh, and don't do it man... trust me. Just don't go back and read fanfic you wrote when you were significantly younger. I've done it and it never ends well. #fanzines
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    Sunshineyness was starred Sunshineyness was unstarred
    Image of ShadowStaarr ShadowStaarr
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    Good old Geocities. Long ago when I was still new to the Internet and just got into things like Digimon and Animorphs and what have you, I'd turn up a number of Geocities fansites to the topics. Great way to kill time. These were on my old AOL and MSN accounts, so even if I did bookmark any of them, I doubt I could ever access them again for a last look. I really hope www.xkcd.com has a way so I can use that skin whenever I feel like.

    T.K + Kari 4ever. #fanzines
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment ShadowStaarr was starred ShadowStaarr was unstarred
    Image of comics0026 comics0026
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    How much of Geocities is preserved in the Internet Archive? #fanzines
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