One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
On the 26th of October 2009 Geocities seized to exist. In between the announcement and the official date of death a group of people calling themselves Archive Team managed to rescue almost a terabyte of Geocities pages. On the 26th of October 2010, the first anniversary of this Digital Holocaust, the Archive Team started to seed geocities.archiveteam.torrent.
On the 1st of November 2010 Olia and Dragan bought a 2 TB disk and started download the biggest torrent of all times.
Being inpatient we started to unzip the first packages and dig into the treasures of Web 1.0. This blog is the first inventory of our findings.
Amazing. We joke about Geocities now. But it really is a huge part of Internet history.
via Jeremy Keith
