An Archeological Dig for GeoCities

These guys found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse.

Who are “these guys” and what did they destroy? The answers are Yahoo! and GeoCities, respectively, TIME reported.

TIME posted a fascinating look at efforts to save content from GeoCities, which was founded in 1995 and bought by Yahoo! in 1999, as that content marks the first experiments with the Web by many people.

TIME wrote:

When Yahoo! switched off the servers for GeoCities, the Web posting service, on Oct. 27, some 7 million of the Internet’s first Websites went dark forever. The bulk of these were people’s personal home pages, which were pulled offline with no backup and no permanent record of those users’ frenetic early forays online.

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