GeoCities, a web hosting site founded in the mid-1990s which gave free home pages to its users, closed its doors on October 26, 2009, and took down all its sites. Many fans used the site; therefore fandom lost many early archives and resource sites when GeoCities closed.
If you were the owner of a fanfiction archive or resource, meta, or other fannish page on GeoCities and you do not have another hosting alternative, we can help! Open Doors is teaming up with the Archive of Our Own and Fanlore to preserve as much material as possible.
Fanfiction: We’re offering AO3 accounts to fanfiction archives (both single author and multiple author archives are welcome) so that you may archive your fiction. (If you are not the owner or site administrator, you can still document and memorialize the site on Fanlore. Contact Open Doors for more information.)
Resource sites: If you are the owner of a resource site, we recommend a page in Fanlore with a summary of the information and purpose of the site along with screencaps of the entry page (to convey the feeling of the site) and key information. We have volunteers who can help you set up a Fanlore page documenting both the content and feel of your GeoCities page. (Even non-owners of a resource site can document and memorialize the site on Fanlore. Contact Open Doors for more information)
If you’re interested in either archiving fic or preserving a resource site, contact us. Please include the URL of the site you wish to archive/preserve, and an e-mail address. If you are the administrator of a multi-author site, please include e-mail addresses for each hosted author (if possible.)
GeoCities Rescue Pages include:
- Alassenya’s Fiction: Alassenya on AO3; Alassenya on Fanlore.
- Dafna: dafna on AO3; Dafna on Fanlore.
- gardendoor: gardendoor on AO3; T.W. Lewis on Fanlore.
- grav_ity: grav_ity on AO3; Gravity_not_included on Fanlore.
- Hanofer: Hanofer on AO3; Hanofer on Fanlore.
- jaekayelle: jaekayelle on AO3; Jae Kayelle on Fanlore.
- jj_minerva: jj_minerva on AO3; jj_minerva on Fanlore.
- Pagan_Twylight: Pagan_Twylight on AO3; Pagan_Twylight on Fanlore.
- PatL: PatL on AO3; Pat L on Fanlore.
- smutty_claus: smutty_claus on AO3.
- Sweet Sorcery: Sweet Sorcery on AO3; Sweet Sorcery on Fanlore.