Geocities Archival Project


	Geocities Archival Project

aerynvala

4-27-2009 11:18 PM

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geocities, archiveteam, internet, history, archiving

aerynvala says:

Utterly atrocious page colors, but I am glad to see that more than one group of people are doing their best to save our net-history.

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