The free Geocities web host was scheduled to be discontinued on 10/26/09, and I just confirmed that my old site it no longer accessible. Luckily, there was ample warning for me to move all my clues to LBNA this summer, but I worry that others may have been lost. If you come across a clue still linked to Geocities, maybe you can use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to find an old cached version, or maybe the webmasters have better suggestions.
It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002. Back then, you could not post clues directly on LBNA, you had to email them to a webmaster who then posted them in the correct state and county. Needless to say it was a slow process. Can you imagine doing it that way now? Anyway, I decided to create my own site and learned enough HTML to post clues myself so my brother Baby Bear would not have to wait for them to be posted on LBNA. I had fun playing with the site and soon had pictures, links and other things to go along with my clues. I have created a new site with a different host to house these things, but my clues have been placed directly on LBNA so I won't have to move them again. I know things are better for the most part now, but I find myself missing the old days sometimes.
Silver Eagle
Geocities Is Gone
8 messages in this thread |
Started on 2009-10-28
Geocities Is Gone
From: sileagle1 (sileagle@windstream.net) |
Date: 2009-10-28 13:39:44 UTC
Re: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
From: Mark Pepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) |
Date: 2009-10-28 13:47:06 UTC
Hi SE!
Pieces of boxing history now gone. I remember going to that site just to see what states y'all were planting in at any given time.
Too bad. And the URL for your new site???
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "sileagle1"
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:39:44 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002.
Silver Eagle
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Pieces of boxing history now gone. I remember going to that site just to see what states y'all were planting in at any given time.
Too bad. And the URL for your new site???
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "sileagle1"
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:39:44 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002.
Silver Eagle
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Re: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
From: sileagle1 (sileagle@windstream.net) |
Date: 2009-10-28 15:01:53 UTC
It is still a work in progress and nowhere near as nice as your site, but here it is:
http://sileagle.webs.com/
Silver Eagle
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pepe wrote:
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> Hi SE!
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> Pieces of boxing history now gone. I remember going to that site just to see what states y'all were planting in at any given time.
> Too bad. And the URL for your new site???
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> Mark
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sileagle1"
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:39:44 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
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> It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002.
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> Silver Eagle
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http://sileagle.webs.com/
Silver Eagle
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pepe
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> Hi SE!
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> Pieces of boxing history now gone. I remember going to that site just to see what states y'all were planting in at any given time.
> Too bad. And the URL for your new site???
>
> Mark
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sileagle1"
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:39:44 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
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> It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002.
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> Silver Eagle
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Re: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
From: Mark Pepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) |
Date: 2009-10-28 16:24:29 UTC
Looks darn good to me! Great job.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "sileagle1"
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:01:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
It is still a work in progress and nowhere near as nice as your site, but here it is:
http://sileagle.webs.com/
Silver Eagle
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "sileagle1"
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:01:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Geocities Is Gone
It is still a work in progress and nowhere near as nice as your site, but here it is:
http://sileagle.webs.com/
Silver Eagle
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Re: Geocities Is Gone
From: dgthomas98 (dgthomas@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) |
Date: 2009-10-29 14:17:38 UTC
Many (most?)of geocities sites can still be accessed at the internet archive's Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.
For example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061117094947/geocities.com/sileagle1/
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "sileagle1" wrote:
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> The free Geocities web host was scheduled to be discontinued on 10/26/09, and I just confirmed that my old site it no longer accessible. Luckily, there was ample warning for me to move all my clues to LBNA this summer, but I worry that others may have been lost. If you come across a clue still linked to Geocities, maybe you can use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to find an old cached version, or maybe the webmasters have better suggestions.
>
> It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002. Back then, you could not post clues directly on LBNA, you had to email them to a webmaster who then posted them in the correct state and county. Needless to say it was a slow process. Can you imagine doing it that way now? Anyway, I decided to create my own site and learned enough HTML to post clues myself so my brother Baby Bear would not have to wait for them to be posted on LBNA. I had fun playing with the site and soon had pictures, links and other things to go along with my clues. I have created a new site with a different host to house these things, but my clues have been placed directly on LBNA so I won't have to move them again. I know things are better for the most part now, but I find myself missing the old days sometimes.
>
> Silver Eagle
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For example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061117094947/geocities.com/sileagle1/
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "sileagle1"
>
> The free Geocities web host was scheduled to be discontinued on 10/26/09, and I just confirmed that my old site it no longer accessible. Luckily, there was ample warning for me to move all my clues to LBNA this summer, but I worry that others may have been lost. If you come across a clue still linked to Geocities, maybe you can use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to find an old cached version, or maybe the webmasters have better suggestions.
>
> It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002. Back then, you could not post clues directly on LBNA, you had to email them to a webmaster who then posted them in the correct state and county. Needless to say it was a slow process. Can you imagine doing it that way now? Anyway, I decided to create my own site and learned enough HTML to post clues myself so my brother Baby Bear would not have to wait for them to be posted on LBNA. I had fun playing with the site and soon had pictures, links and other things to go along with my clues. I have created a new site with a different host to house these things, but my clues have been placed directly on LBNA so I won't have to move them again. I know things are better for the most part now, but I find myself missing the old days sometimes.
>
> Silver Eagle
>
Re: Geocities Is Gone
From: dgthomas98 (dgthomas@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) |
Date: 2009-10-29 14:21:16 UTC
Here's a link to the Wayback machine that will actually work:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
:-)
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "dgthomas98" wrote:
>
> Many (most?)of geocities sites can still be accessed at the internet archive's Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.
>
> For example:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20061117094947/geocities.com/sileagle1/
>
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
:-)
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "dgthomas98"
>
> Many (most?)of geocities sites can still be accessed at the internet archive's Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.
>
> For example:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20061117094947/geocities.com/sileagle1/
>
Re: Geocities Is Gone
From: drewclan11 (drewclan@aol.com) |
Date: 2009-11-04 19:40:17 UTC
Great new website, Silver Eagle! As you mentioned, there was ample warning for folks using GeoCities and all the boxes on LbNA and AQ were switched over before the deadline. There were one or two boxers who didn't respond so at the last minute those boxes just sorta "moved" on their own.
Mark is right though, another piece of letterboxing history gone. I think the best backup is still good old paper...
Jay
Mark is right though, another piece of letterboxing history gone. I think the best backup is still good old paper...
Jay
Re: Geocities Is Gone
From: koalacat_lbx (koalacat_lbx@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2009-11-05 17:30:29 UTC
I remember Geocities back when it was geocities.com/silconvalley(or hollywoodhills, some name like that)/3456/index.html and before yahoo bought it. Tripod is still around and that has been around as long as geocities I think.
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "sileagle1" wrote:
>
> The free Geocities web host was scheduled to be discontinued on 10/26/09, and I just confirmed that my old site it no longer accessible. Luckily, there was ample warning for me to move all my clues to LBNA this summer, but I worry that others may have been lost. If you come across a clue still linked to Geocities, maybe you can use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to find an old cached version, or maybe the webmasters have better suggestions.
>
> It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002. Back then, you could not post clues directly on LBNA, you had to email them to a webmaster who then posted them in the correct state and county. Needless to say it was a slow process. Can you imagine doing it that way now? Anyway, I decided to create my own site and learned enough HTML to post clues myself so my brother Baby Bear would not have to wait for them to be posted on LBNA. I had fun playing with the site and soon had pictures, links and other things to go along with my clues. I have created a new site with a different host to house these things, but my clues have been placed directly on LBNA so I won't have to move them again. I know things are better for the most part now, but I find myself missing the old days sometimes.
>
> Silver Eagle
>
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "sileagle1"
>
> The free Geocities web host was scheduled to be discontinued on 10/26/09, and I just confirmed that my old site it no longer accessible. Luckily, there was ample warning for me to move all my clues to LBNA this summer, but I worry that others may have been lost. If you come across a clue still linked to Geocities, maybe you can use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to find an old cached version, or maybe the webmasters have better suggestions.
>
> It is really sad for me to lose my Geocities site, mainly because of all the memories. I first set up my letterboxing site to post the clues to my first placed box back in 2002. Back then, you could not post clues directly on LBNA, you had to email them to a webmaster who then posted them in the correct state and county. Needless to say it was a slow process. Can you imagine doing it that way now? Anyway, I decided to create my own site and learned enough HTML to post clues myself so my brother Baby Bear would not have to wait for them to be posted on LBNA. I had fun playing with the site and soon had pictures, links and other things to go along with my clues. I have created a new site with a different host to house these things, but my clues have been placed directly on LBNA so I won't have to move them again. I know things are better for the most part now, but I find myself missing the old days sometimes.
>
> Silver Eagle
>