Geocities Archive

Geocities Archive: Preserve Vintage Websites

A platform hosting inactive Geocities personal websites, preserving nostalgia and history, after Yahoo closed the service

What is Geocities Archive?

Geocities Archive is a non-profit community project dedicated to archiving and hosting inactive personal websites that were previously hosted on the Geocities service by Yahoo. Geocities was a popular free web hosting platform during the early days of the internet in the 1990s and 2000s, allowing anyone to create a personal homepage with limited HTML coding knowledge.

When Yahoo shut down Geocities in 2009, millions of these nostalgic sites representing the early web culture were lost. Geocities Archive emerged with the aim of finding archived versions and snapshots of those vintage sites and making them accessible again for viewing and historical preservation.

The archive does not host commercial sites or sites with questionable content. It focuses specifically on the numerous personal homepages that reflected the diversity of hobbies, interests and creativity of individuals in the early internet era. The sites are presented as-is, without modifications or updates, to preserve their authentic retro look and content from that time period.

Visitors to Geocities Archive can browse its catalog of rescued sites for a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Web design hobbyists and history enthusiasts often view these inactive sites to study early web design trends and see how individuals personalized and expressed themselves through homepages in a more experimental era of web design.

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