Geocities Archive Data Turned Into a Stunning Digital City [VIDEO]

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Long a synonym for ugly websites with obnoxious ads, the web hosting service was shut down (except in Japan, where it's still active) in 2009. But its closure did bring a tear to the eye of many Internet veterans who remember that Geocities did host some very interesting sites.

Enter Archive Team, a collective bent on saving our digital heritage. It made a backup of Geocities just before it shut down. Now, information designer Richard Vijgen turned the 650 GB data file into an amazing visualization called The Deleted City, in which the users of Geocities are displayed as tenants in an enormous virtual city.

Unfortunately, you cannot interact with the resulting visualization, but you can see it in action in the video below.