OT-ish - GeoCities to close
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8016211.stm

Excerpt:
---quote---
Yahoo says that existing GeoCities accounts will remain live for now,
although it stresses that users should start looking for alternative
sites.

"You don't need to change your service today, but we encourage anyone
interested in a full-featured web-hosting plan to consider upgrading
to our award-winning Yahoo! Web Hosting service," the firm said in an
online post.
---/quote---

The first thing I thought of is Mr Rowland's "See How They Run"
website, which incorporates the seminal "Transport Plans for the
London Area" - it needs to be preserved, surely! I don't know if utl
could collectively come up with some solution to this dilemma?

OT-ish - GeoCities to close
 

On 28 Apr, 11:10, Mizter T wrote:
The first thing I thought of is Mr Rowland's "See How They Run"
website, which incorporates the seminal "Transport Plans for the
London Area" - it needs to be preserved, surely! I don't know if utl
could collectively come up with some solution to this dilemma?

The Internet Archive seems to have picked up the whole thing,
including the vast majority the images:

http://web.archive.org/web/200710260...cropolis/7069/
http://web.archive.org/web/200701140...9/lteuston.gif

U

OT-ish - GeoCities to close
 

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Mizter T wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8016211.stm

Excerpt:
---quote---
Yahoo says that existing GeoCities accounts will remain live for now,
although it stresses that users should start looking for alternative
sites.

"You don't need to change your service today, but we encourage anyone
interested in a full-featured web-hosting plan to consider upgrading
to our award-winning Yahoo! Web Hosting service," the firm said in an
online post.
---/quote---

The first thing I thought of is Mr Rowland's "See How They Run"
website, which incorporates the seminal "Transport Plans for the
London Area" - it needs to be preserved, surely! I don't know if utl
could collectively come up with some solution to this dilemma?

I am quite sure Mr Rowland is capable of collectively coming up with a
solution on his own!

Google Sites, maybe? Not sure if you can just dump HTML on that or not - i
think not. No idea how you might import masses of data into it, either.

I'd offer to host it myself, but one of my sysops reads this group, and he
might not be impressed!

tom

--
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years
before I was born. -- Mark Twain

OT-ish - GeoCities to close
 

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Mr Thant wrote:

On 28 Apr, 11:10, Mizter T wrote:
The first thing I thought of is Mr Rowland's "See How They Run"
website, which incorporates the seminal "Transport Plans for the
London Area" - it needs to be preserved, surely! I don't know if utl
could collectively come up with some solution to this dilemma?

The Internet Archive seems to have picked up the whole thing,
including the vast majority the images:

http://web.archive.org/web/200710260...cropolis/7069/
http://web.archive.org/web/200701140...9/lteuston.gif

Also, there is a chap known only as 'Jason Scott' who, along with a shady
team of hackers, is in the process of archiving the entire thing.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1961
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities

tom

--
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years
before I was born. -- Mark Twain

OT-ish - GeoCities to close
 

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:50:15PM +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I'd offer to host it myself, but one of my sysops reads this group, and he
might not be impressed!

I'm my own sysop, so if any UTLish site needs a home lemme know.

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