REPORT #56

GeoCities Cluster Alpha Recovery

Comprehensive archival analysis of the SoHo-4828 neighborhood cluster, including 1,247 personal homepages, guestbooks, and WebRing nodes.

Status
COMPLETED
Crawl Date
1998-06-14
Region
US-EAST / PA-04
Archive Size
428.6 MB
Executive Summary

Report #56 documents the successful preservation of the GeoCities "SoHo" neighborhood cluster (Sector 4828-4835). The crawl executed across 14 active proxy nodes over a 72-hour window, capturing HTML structure, embedded assets, and visitor counter databases. Notable findings include 34 active guestbook MySQL dumps, 89 MIDI autoloop configurations, and a rare intact "Under Construction" GIF variant previously undocumented in academic literature. All content has been sanitized of active tracking scripts while preserving original DOM structure for historical fidelity.

Asset Distribution
HTML Documents 68%
GIF / Animated 22%
MIDI Audio 8%
Plain Text / Logs 2%
Technical Breakdown
Category Specification Prevalence
HTML Version HTML 3.2 84%
Layout Method TABLE / FRAMESET 91%
CSS Usage Inline Style / bgcolor 32%
JavaScript Netscape 2.0 / Status Bar 47%
Visitor Counters HitWeb / W3Counter 63%
WebRings Cottage / SoHo 28%
Crawl Execution Log
[1998-06-14 02:00:01] SPIDER_V1$ initiating cluster_alpha sweep...
[02:04:12] [✓] resolved 1,247 unique hostnames
[02:18:45] [↓] fetching index.html & nested frames...
[03:02:11] [!] deprecated <blink> tag detected in 44 nodes
[04:15:33] [✓] guestbook DB dumps secured (34/34)
[06:44:02] [↓] midi autoloop extraction complete (89 files)
[08:12:59] [!] 12 hosts returned 404 / site closed
[09:30:00] [✓] crawl sequence terminated. integrity verified.
[09:30:01] SPIDER_V1$ _