Comment Re:Worth the effort? (Score 1) 215
If they don't do something retarded, like make the torrent a single zip file (and even that is not the end of the world), since it is a torrent, you could selectively download portions. It all depends on how they catalog the files in the torrent. HTML file level granularity would definitely not be feasible (or smart), but there are other methods that would be a good compromise.
So no, if the people are not complete retards, then you wouldn't have to download the whole thing.
Considering that these people are putting effort into preserving geocities, I don't know about the retard bit though. We'll see.
I wonder what Jason Scott would think about this. Personally, textfiles is one of my favorite places. But this doesn't feel the same.