From the time when I began playing on the internet (say 5th grade) up until sometime in late high school, I occassionally created stuff and put it on the internet. At the time, there was no way that I would have been able to purchase or afford web hosting. As such, I made use of various free hosting services that were all the rage at the time. One of said systems was the behemoth known as Geocities. Over time, I accumulated multiple accounts there hosting various things, most of which I can no longer remember at this point.
Now, however, the end of Geocities is approximately 3 weeks away and I am beginning to attempt to pull down these ancient files of my youth before they are lost forever. Geocities has chosen to make this difficult, of course. Firstly, there is no way to batch download files. Instead, you must click each file individually and download it. This is incredibly tedious for even a small site like the ones that I have there. Secondly, the per-hour cap of 4.2 MB/account is still in effect. This means that I can only download about a third of what is on my site before having to wait for an hour before starting again.
Currently, I'm downloading from the oldest of my accounts (which incidentally is the only one whose account access information I can remember). I've rigged up a couple of processes of wget seperated by 65 minute long sleeps in the hopes of pulling everything down today while I'm at work. I can vaguely recall at least two other pages that I had there at times in the past, but have no idea either where they are or what user account information might be associated with them. My hope is to be able to remember such things before the 25 October deadline; though, I fear that it is unlikely at this point. Based solely on the file dates listed on the stuff in the one account I'm currently polling, I'm looking at files from circa 2001. Decade-old login information tends to not stick in my memory very well.
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