They're gone

Posted by jukkahoo

I've had them for some time now. Four years, methinks. Four years and some months. And now they're gone. Without saying goodbye, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen. Not even a note, nor a box of chocolates. Nothing. Nada, as they say in America.

I'm talking about my webpages at geocities.com. They're not there anymore. Vanished without a trace, leaving no sign of ever being there in the first place.

I was never even notified of this. I didn't get the memo: "Hi! jukkahoo, we're shutting your website down! We enjoyed our long and fruitful co-operation, but now it's time to say goodbye, no hard feelings?"

Eff you.

I tried to get in touch with someone. Anyone. The pages are gone, no big deal, no real harm done. I can live with this, even though I'm a bit miffed about all this, since there was a thing or two I'd love to have kept available in the web. My rants. The Read-list.

Oh bugger, my Read-list... That I'm going to miss. And the Rants. Some of them were pretty funny. My American Diary... *sigh* Now that I am really going to miss. - It turns out I'm actually missing those pages already. A lot more than I initially thought I was going to. Maybe someone LOT more net-savvy can tell me, whether something can be salvaged? Any ideas? I'm really open for suggestions here.

So anyway. I tried contacting geocities and yahoo. All I got in return was automatic responses, offering totally useless advices and damage-control links. Nothing to do with the case here. They simply have no place where one can ask a simple question of "Why have you removed my pages? Why didn't you inform me about this thing?"

I know that according to the deal we made, the "I accept these terms..." -click that I did, they have the right to delete my pages without any prior announcement or any reason what so ever, and they don't even have to give me an explanation. It's a silly, stupid and incredibly harsh deal, but hey!; the pages were free and I actually did read the contract and the fine print. This thing that happened was a possibility, but I'm still a bit baffled. Was it something I did? Or something some pea-brain hacker-dude, out of sheer spite and fun? Or some moronic geocities-wanker who had nothing better to do than removing some freeloading pages in some alien language? Who knows, who cares?

I'm done. Thems pages are lost and gone forever (unless someone manages to help me with this). Spilt milk and all that. *sob* I'm really not going to cry over this one. *sob* Really. Not me. *sob* Uh-huh.

Comments

[jukkahoo]

And since I'm such a pea-brain myself, I only now decided to check whether for example Google has my pages cached. Sure enough. No major harm done, except that those non-linked pages I've made just for myself don't seem to be there. There went the Bible for Kaaba... I just hope I do have it all somewhere as a paper copy. Silly me!

[Veriveli]

Just tollasten takiahan mä luulinkin, että sulla on koko tuotantosi myös itselläsi
jossain tallessa. Esim. kotikoneen levyllä ja sen varmuuskopioilla. Varmuuskopiot
kotikoneen levystähän sulla nyt joka tapauksessa on. Onhan?
Suomi voittaa 4-2. Ja heti kun tuon kirjoitin USA teki maalin. Argh.

[jukkahoo]

Sä oot guru! Ei huanommin arvattu, kai sä pistit kaks euroo pitkävetoon?

Ei tietenkään mulla ole mitään noista helvetin geocities-teksteistä minään varmuuskopioina. Nehän on vaan sellaisia internetin ihmeelliseen maailmaan sujautettuja pieniä päiväperhosia, joiden olemassaolon voi ilkeä liemulohi (tai yahoo/geocities) voi koska tahansa pusertaa kuivaksi.

Tai siis, on mulla noi Novgorod-reissun, Ameriikan päiväkirjojen ja Rantsien kopiot olemassa. Kirjapäiväkirjaa sitten ei. En ajatellut ihan aikuisten oikeesti koskaan moisia kopioita tarvitsevani, puhumattakaan siitä, että se koko ilmainen Pagebuilder-systeemi on aika yksinkertaisuuden huipentuma; siihen vaan kirjailet ruutuun ja julkaiset. Iisi piisi.

Varmuuskopiot kotikoneen levystä... salli mun nauraa. Mä olen sellainen luonnonlapsi, että mokomakin kopioiminen ja huolestuminen on sen verta stressaavaa, jotta kunhan Paskan sattuessa saa edes hieman kiroilla ja ns. availla venttiileitä, niin meikäläiselle tulee siitä hyvempi olo. Harva asia muutenkaan enää stressaa niin kauheasti. Stressi on pahasta, siitä voi tulla vaikka mahahaava tai syöpä.

Hyvä avaus leijonilta. Ekan erän heikot hetket kun jaksettiin hieman tarkemmin puolustaa, niin pelihän oli meidän hallussamme. Kisastudiossakin (ja siellähän oli ihan ihmisiäkin, kymmenen henkeä!) tunnelma oli sopivan tiivis ja kelvollisesti kalibroitu, sillä neljästä maalista kolme teki pullomies. Joroisten härällä ei ole omaa, mutta Kurpitsapäällä ja Laiska-Lassella on, Lassen pullo on nyt tosin tyhjä. Kaksi maalia heti ekaan matsiin oli ehkä kuitenkin enemmän kuin odotettiin. Kysymys on nyt: tuleeko seuraavaan peliin uusi pullo?

[Néa]

Don't wait too long to grab the caches, though - do it at once if you haven't already. Google cache doesn't remain very long.

Though web.archive.org is usually quite trustworthy, and might have your non-linked stuff as well, at least if it's been up for as long as several years...