1 TB of Quality Content

[Black Jack Shellac]

"WE ARE RELEASING GEOCITIES ON A TORRENT.

This is going to be one hell of a torrent – the compression is happening as we speak, and it's making a machine or two very unhappy for weeks on end. The hope had been to upload it today, but the reality is this is a lot of stuff – probably 900 gigabytes will be in the torrent itself. It's not perfect, it's not all – but it's something.

Who will want this? Anyone who feels like browsing among the artifacts of yesterday, who wants some data to play with, who is doing research into history, who wants to get some mileage out of a few weblog postings of crazy glittery animated GIFs and MIDI music. It's not for everyone. Some people will probably grab a few files out of the thousands of archives in the torrent, unhook and call it a day. Others will want all of it, every last bit, to put onto their $80 1TB hard drive they bought down at the local computer mart.

It is not clear when the torrent will go up, but if you're interested in it, please mail into geotorrent@textfiles.com – you will get a one-time mailing when it's up and waiting for you."

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2720

[bill]

Even I don't want copies of my old spam.

[TallTroll]

Data is data. Even if 99% of it is utter cack, the last 1% may be gold. And I can think of a few people who can make the 99% cack work too, if you know what I'm saying.

[Drastic]

Hell it's probably mostly unique content generated by humans.

GOLD!

I don't do torrents, that the only way? Who is getting this?

[Drastic]

Let us know, might have to get it myself. Of course unless you want to host it. ;-)

[JamesR]

Fire up the spinners!

[grnidone]

Is there a way to break it up into smaller pieces?