I know this isn't news, the news would be that they're taking Geocities offline, but I thought this animated gif "Under Construction" archive was hilarious.
It would be interesting to see the trend of using "under construction" graphics over time. At some point it just clicked that web pages are -always- under construction, and we didn't have to be as explicit about it anymore.
On the topic of Geocities shutting down, I found an option in wget which ignores existing files - because Yahoo has a 503 error if you try to spider too many pages.
It's -nc which means 'no clobber' - which is the least helpful phrase considering you could say 'ignore existing'...
When you get a 503, wait about an hour, and then run wget until it fails, then wait an hour, etc, until you've got all 10mb of your webspace.
Also -np to only spider below your page on Geocities.
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When you get a 503, wait about an hour, and then run wget until it fails, then wait an hour, etc, until you've got all 10mb of your webspace.
Also -np to only spider below your page on Geocities.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/msg/dc569dfec...
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/SiSiliconValleyVi...
Is from an ancient version of JavaDoc if I remember correctly.
Why do I think of MTV when I see all that? Dire Straits!
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/CaCapeCanaveralOr...
Classy.