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Shoutout to the Wayback Machine for saving my old Geocities page
I was trying to show a friend my first website from 2001, and I had two options: my own dusty backup CD or the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The CD was a total bust, my old computer couldn't even read it. But the Wayback Machine? I typed in my old Geocities URL and bam, there it was, pixel for pixel. I saw the awful tiled background, the 'under construction' gif, and even the guestbook form. It felt like opening a real time capsule. The difference was having a public, backed-up record versus my own flimsy storage that failed. It made me realize how much of the early web would be gone without these archives. Has anyone else found their old web stuff saved like that?
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scott.grace5mo ago
Found my old AIM profile yet?
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juliam403mo ago
and I still can't believe my old profile name was "cutiepie_xxjulia". like what was I even thinking with that. also @sandraf84 probably had the same background as mine, those sparkly stars were a real nightmare.
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