[Membroj] geocities gone

[Ralph Dumain]

Last night I received a notice from an Esperantist warning of the 
imminent closing of Yahoo's geocities site. I saved as much Esperanto 
and other material (for which I had links) as I could before I 
finally had to go to sleep. Among the material I downloaded was the 
60 or so chapters of Lanti's letters as well as a whole lot of 
material on sennaciismo; an English-Esperanto site providing photos 
and biographies of a half dozen major Esperanto literary figures, 
some poetry, interlinguistics material, et al.

It is possible that others, including the site owners, saved their 
material and have or will put it up elsewhere. There's also a chance 
that archive.org, which also provides the wayback machine, has 
conserved some if not all of the geocities sites. I think it takes 
several months before old stuff gets archived.

In any case, when time permits I will search the web to see if the 
disappeared material of interest to me has reappeared elsewhere. If 
not, I'll put this stuff up on my site.

For those of you interested in interlinguistics, part of this site is 
still functional:

International Auxiliary Languages
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/index.html

I downloaded most of the material in the first section, but I didn't 
have time to download whole books as a rule, because each chapter has 
a separate web page. Similarly, I didn't have time to download whole 
subsections which in turn link to a host of pages. Some have 
disappeared, but some remain. I think the Ido and one of the Novial 
sections are still there. Other sections and related geocities sites 
are gone, though.  Have at what's left, information scavengers.