Found an old Geocities page from 1998 that someone kept alive through 3 server moves

I stumbled on this site last week that some guy in Ohio built for his cat rescue. It has that classic flashing text, a guestbook from '99, and a MIDI file that actually still loads. The thing is, people online keep saying old sites are all gone but this one is still up because the owner manually migrated it every time the free host shut down. Has anyone else found a relic like this that somehow survived through pure stubbornness?

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angela_knight20d ago

You know what that reminds me of? There's this ancient fansite for some obscure 90s cartoon that still miraculously works, complete with a webring badge and a counter that's been frozen at 47,832 visitors since 2001. The person who made it must have taught themselves HTML from a library book. The site has this one page with a poorly photoshopped image of the main character riding a dragon, and the text under it just says "COOLEST SCENE EVER." It's a total mess but you can tell someone loved it enough to drag it through three or four different free hosting services over the years.

the_nathan19d ago

Hang on, I gotta push back a little on that one. I mean yeah it's a mess, but calling a 47,832 visitor counter "frozen" is kind of underselling it. For a fansite about some obscure 90s cartoon, that's actually a pretty solid number. I bet if you dug into the webring, it probably linked to like five other similarly broken sites that all credited each other. The real devils advocate here, @angela_knight, is that the person probably hosted it on GeoCities or Angelfire until those shut down, then just manually copied the files to some free WordPress clone. That's dedication, not a mess.