Im too young to ever have used Geocities; byt the time I actively had a web page hosting was as cheap as chips all over the place. But even as the newer generation of web geeks I always new about it.

Geocities was always there for the the spam, the ARG pages, the conspiracy theories and, oh yeh, some actually brilliant content.

But this week Geocities died as Yahoo shut it down. No one can really blame them - they are a company and there is likely little profit in it any more. But it is still sad.

The brilliance of the Internet is that nothing can die if there is someone to save it!

Enter Reocities. Actually that is somewhat unfair because archive.org has also been doing sterling work rescuing Geocities content - however I am entirely biased to lets laud reocities :)

Reocities is Jacques Mattheij's effort to save as much of Geocities as he can. It's an insane effort because he started it with just 6 days to go - and the "Making of" page is definitely an inspiring read.

One thing that struck me was the sheer AMOUNT of content! It's crazy quite how many pages actually exist on there. Is it all spam? what nuggets of genius are hidden there.  I definitely am inspired to give it a good look through.