For all those web geeks who used to have their sites in geocities, its time you take backup of your site since geocities is shutting down. The geocities time was almost like an era when people used to make awesome websites with lots of java applets and lots of color. I used to have my first site in geocities and atleast had 4 versions of it with entire different designs. I still have my old site at www.geocities.com/sonyontheweb and can’t think of losing it because it reminds me of my school days where i started using the internet and fell in love with it. My flash works, my greeting cards, my games and lots of other interesting stuff. Don’t know how i could find time for all that. phew!

So here’s how you can download your entire site in one shot (sorry windows users this is only for linux). Many of you might be knowing it but thought it would be useful for those who were unaware of it. the easiest way is to use wget. it worked so smooth for me. here’s an example.

$  wget      --recursive     \
                 --no-clobber     \
                 --page-requisites   \
                 --html-extension \
                 --convert-links    \
                 --restrict-file-names=windows  \
                 --domains geocities.com    \
                 --no-parent          www.geocities.com/sonyontheweb/

Here’s where i downloaded my site to and its exactly the same as i had it on geocities. http://sony.sci-india.org/sonyontheweb/www.geocities.com/sonyontheweb/index.htm

Goodbye geocities! We all will miss you!