On: Websites with the most backlinks

[sp332]

Yahoo took Geocities offline earlier this year. There are at least 6 copies of varying completeness available.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903567

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities_Project

http://www.archive.org/web/geocities.php

http://www.oocities.com/

http://www.geocities.ws/

and something from http://www.internetarchaeology.org/ but I can't find the link.

[lsc → sp332]

right, the parent was commenting that yahoo is essentially throwing away a site that has a very high number of backlinks.

Seems to me that they would have been better off letting it go read-only, and then attempt to use it to sell other Yahoo services (I mean, if they thought the abuse costs of continuing to run geocities were too high; And I imagine that the abuse costs were the only real serious costs associated with continuing to run it.)

[benologist → lsc]

When they killed it it had a higher Alexa rank than Digg too.