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		gman99 on May 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999) Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I get a "page not found (yet)" (when I attempt to get to my old site) which suggests that you're still in the process of restoring pages. Is this still the case? Or do I assume that my data is long gone at this point. Edit: Even if my data is gone, I really appreciate what you've done; and I'm sure others do too. Wish Yahoo had shuttered it more gracefully.

jacquesm on May 17, 2013 [–]

I am really sorry, unfortunately it is pretty safe to assume the data is long gone unless one of the other preservation efforts snagged it.

I have very long list of wanted sites but only a handful of those were recovered in the last year (mostly from local caches on old pc's).

I don't think the archive will every be completed.

gman99 on May 17, 2013 | [–]

No need to be sorry. Thanks for setting the service up and trying! I'm sure it's helped lots of people.

As for my site; I'm sure I have backup's (somewhere :) of the really valuable data. It's just more for taking a look at My First Website and reeling at the horror more than anything else.

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