Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
I still wish someone, somewhere could have backed up Geocities. That was a huge chunk of Internet history lost.
A decent amount of Geocities sites are backed up on the Wayback machine and/or restored via other projects.
Protoweb is really cool, if you wanna browse the internet like its the late 90s again
Iirc there’s a torrent of it out there, check tpb. I know I grabbed it a while back, I think it was like 50gb