Downloading an entire Geocities site with a free tool actually worked
I remember back in 1999, I had this Geocities page for my band that took me like 6 months to build with all these custom GIFs and MIDI files. Then one day I heard Yahoo was gonna shut down Geocities and I panicked. Some guy on a forum named something like "WebRipper2000" said I could grab the whole site with this free program called HTTrack. I was super skeptical because most free tools back then were just packed with spyware or would crash halfway through. But I tried it on a Sunday afternoon, pointed it at my URL, and it downloaded every single HTML file, image, and sound file to my hard drive in about 20 minutes. The whole thing was like 12 megabytes and it kept all the folder structures perfect. Has anyone else used HTTrack or a similar tool to save old sites before they disappeared?