GeoCities dies in March 2019, and with it a piece of internet history

[Bruce]

The Internet Archive's WayBack Machine effectively hopes to host copies of most webpages indefinitely, and it comes in handy when trying to revive dead links or go on a nostalgia trip. Also a worthy organization to donate to.

[Stephane Dumas]

The Internet Archive's WayBack Machine effectively hopes to host copies of most webpages indefinitely, and it comes in handy when trying to revive dead links or go on a nostalgia trip. Also a worthy organization to donate to.

I agree and there's also another website less known called Archive.is http://www.archive.is who play a role similar to the Wayback Machine.

And now we can archive ourselves some websites (minus audios and Youtube clips) on the Wayback Machine as well as Archive.is as explained in these videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWyLlIz_P_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK_bp9_ZyQs

[bing101]

Dan Wood does a segment on the internet in the 1990's and parts of the early 2000's yes this includes geocities on the list.

Also there is a group called neocities where they try to make pages look like the web in the late 1990's early 2000's timeframe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocities

https://neocities.org/

[Stephane Dumas]

I did some digging and thanks to the Wayback Machine, I founded archived remnants of former sites who was on Geocoties.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010517021649/http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/6948/
https://web.archive.org/web/20010608055917/http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/8610/la-inter.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20010515203657/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/2153/

[ErmineNotyours]

I've usually heard "the internet is forever" as a caution against sharing on social media, since anyone could copy it/share it themselves and soon you'd have no idea how many people saved/shared/etc. whatever embarrassing picture you posted.

I usually hear it worded "Facebook is forever", not "the Internet is forever".

If it's rare, one-of-a-kind valuable information, it will be lost.  If it's embarrassing, it will stick around forever.

My old Geocties web page: https://www.oocities.org/hollywood/Pavillion/2216/driveins.html