{"id":2921,"date":"2010-10-30T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2010-10-30T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T17:05:06","slug":"digital-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/digital-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tancos.net was originally a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geocities\">GeoCities<\/a> site, back at the dawn of the modern era. It was mainly a place to post pictures. If I remember correctly, I initially had a total of 10 megabytes of space \u2014 or was it 5? \u2014 available on the Geocities server, so the pictures had to be small. I eventually got premium account, partly for more space, partly to get rid of the damned pop-ups. Some years later I got a better hosting deal elsewhere and, after an arduous search of the Geocities site for the not-really-secret-but-curiously-hard-to-find relevant menu, cancelled my membership.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the USA GeoCities site was shut down, though there is still a Japanese version extant. Before that, some organizations archived the GeoCities content. If you have a really fast connection and a spare terabyte drive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2010\/10\/30\/torrent-the-whole-geocities\/\">you can now download all of GeoCities as a 900-gigabyte torrent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tancos.net was originally a GeoCities site, back at the dawn of the modern era. It was mainly a place to post pictures. If I remember correctly, I initially had a total of 10 megabytes of space \u2014 or was it 5? \u2014 available on the Geocities server, so the pictures had to be small. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/digital-archaeology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital archaeology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-world-web","tag-geocities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-L7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}