I was trying to show my nephew my old Geocities site and realized I'd been searching for it wrong for a decade.

I kept typing my old URL into the Wayback Machine, but it never came up. I finally dug out an old printout from 1998. The address was actually 'www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/1234/mypage.html' but I'd been searching for 'www.geocities.com/mypage'. The folder structure was the whole thing. Found it instantly with the full path. It's a trip seeing those tiny GIFs and the 'under construction' banner. What's the oldest personal site you've managed to dig up? Any tricks for finding stuff that's really buried?

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ryan6531mo ago

Feel your pain, did the same thing last year.

brians271mo ago

Actually, this is my first time trying it.