Geocities Closing

[francescacoppa]

Like many fans, we are concerned about the news that GeoCities is going to close at the end of the year, especially as many older sites and fanfiction archives are housed there. As the chair of Open Doors, which is dedicated to protecting at-risk fannish projects, I can assure you that we will work out some sort of gameplan; in the interim, if you have an archive or webpage there, or if you can put us in contact with any archivists located there, please contact Open Doors through the Open Doors contact page.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Comments

[stellar_dust]

I can't think of any archives on geocities off the top of my head, but I know there are some, and I'm really, really glad you guys are doing this. Thank you! ♥.

[ratcreature]

Is this only for fiction archives? Or would be resource sites be eligible too? I'd really love if the "Welcome to the Sentinel fandom" page had a permanent home:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8097/sentinelfan/
Sure some is outdated, but it's still history, and was the page that helped me get around in TS fanodm when I joined. *is nostalgic*

[francescacoppa]

Oh, interesting! Let me find out; I've got a couple of ideas about how to preserve a page like this...