So, uh... Geocities is shutting down today

TheySlashThem

Seriously, look.

Apparently, they're straight up deleting everything.

That old website you cobbled together and promptly forgot about back in the 90's? Gone.

Your precious, precious fanfiction? Vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Your dancing baby gif? Kiss it goodbye.

That MIDI of a Nirvana song you stuck at the bottom of the page, making it a hassle to reach and shut off? Terminated.

Let's take a moment to reflect on what the internet once was, and be thankful that it no longer is.

Larlar

I remember having to upload jpgs as .txt extentions just to be able to hotlink them here. So long, geocities. Take my 2002 image collection with you.

Clint Eastwood

NOOOOOOO

Favlaud

Who remembers Webrings

Grey Ghost

BURN IT DOWN

Drew-B

A reason to actually go to xkcd

http://www.xkcd.com/654/

Robcham

oh no TDOT what ever will you do about your batman clock king fan fiction

Goatmon

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of shitty websites suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Aneurhythmia

Requiescat in pace, I suppose.

natek

dang, I feel almost sad about this

it is as if the teenage mutant ninja turtles decided to stop existing divided by 100

part of my first internet experiences were shitty geocities websites

Lucky Cynic

Goatmon wrote: »

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of shitty websites suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Harrier

Ha! Shows what you know! All my fanfiction was moved to fanfiction.net ages ago!

KetBra

I'm going to miss you, geocities.

(I won't really)

Lucky Cynic

In all seriousness, did anyone actually genuinely use geocities in the last like, 5 years? There seems to just be this gap between the 90s and Netscape and all that to now it being shut down...

DarkPrimus

Favlaud wrote: »

Who remembers Webrings

Haha oh man, talk about nostalgia.

DeathPrawn

I could have sworn I remembered a big hubbub a few years back about Geocities shutting down. Am I crazy or something?

KetBra

Wasn't there some geocities archiving project going on for a while?

TheySlashThem

SIGN MY GUESTBOOK

Goatmon

Lucky Cynic wrote: »

Goatmon wrote: »

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of shitty websites suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Albert Einstein wrote:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Recoil42

Enter: The Geocities Archive Team:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities_Project




and with that, this:
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

and this: (may freeze your crappy browser)

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/mail/

Recoil42

also, xkcd's 21-gun salute: www.xkcd.com

Ranx

hey look guys lucky cynic is being mean to goatmon!

[Deleted User]

The user and all related content has been deleted.

Ranx

define 'help'

Ringo

This is disheartening. I always imagined that when the Singularity hit, the new Infopocalypse would be supported by an army of flashing geocities webpages.

How will our baby AIs ever face the future if we cannot blind them with our terrible past?

Lucky Cynic

Recoil42 wrote: »

and with that, this:
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

Jesus christ, as soon as I opened this, that fucking hamster song came into my head.

MechMantis

Recoil42 wrote: »

Enter: The Geocities Archive Team:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities_Project




and with that, this:
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

and this: (may freeze your crappy browser)

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/mail/

Holy shit.

That is a lot of images.

Garlic Bread

i wish i could remember what that angelfire page i made earlier this year was called

scarlet st.

Drew-B wrote: »

A reason to actually go to xkcd

http://www.xkcd.com/654/

haha good lord

Joon

Recoil42 wrote: »

also, xkcd's 21-gun salute: www.xkcd.com

Could use some frames for easier navigation.

Blake T

I have no idea why Lucky Cynic trolls goatmon. Really it should be the other way around. Goatmon freaks the shit out of me far less than Lucky Cynic.

Maybe Lucky Cynic is just annoyed that Goatmon isn't depraved enough or something.

Aneurhythmia

The Far Side wrote: »

if it helps, angelfire is still around

I think Tripod is too. And Fortune City.

http://members.fortunecity.com/jcattera/ghostlocator/

Recoil42 wrote: »

and with that, this:
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

and this: (may freeze your crappy browser)

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/mail/

textfiles.com is like mainlining internet nostalgia.

Lucky Cynic

MechMantis wrote: »

Recoil42 wrote: »

Enter: The Geocities Archive Team:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities_Project




and with that, this:
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

and this: (may freeze your crappy browser)

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/mail/

Holy shit.

That is a lot of images.

Dude! There are some gems in that shit pile. Holy shit guys, email to me some free emails!




and my favorite:

Goatmon

Blaket wrote: »

I have no idea why Lucky Cynic trolls goatmon. Really it should be the other way around. Goatmon freaks the shit out of me far less than Lucky Cynic.

Maybe Lucky Cynic is just annoyed that Goatmon isn't depraved enough or something.

He has been butthurt ever since I made him feel very bad about himself for being a shithead when he stirred up some shit with me on Valentines day for no reason.

True story.

Garlic Bread

sometimes i get the urge to install AOL

TheySlashThem

Keith wrote: »

sometimes i get the urge to install AOL

what? why?

Garlic Bread

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

Keith wrote: »

sometimes i get the urge to install AOL

what? why?

nostalgia

i'm gonna do it right now

Lucky Cynic

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

Keith wrote: »

sometimes i get the urge to install AOL

what? why?

The question would be, once you have it, how could you get rid of it? Fucking hated that way back when. AOL was a dick to remove.

KetBra

Man, I think I've still got a stack of those AOL CD's laying around somewhere.

Lucky Cynic

Keith wrote: »

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

Keith wrote: »

sometimes i get the urge to install AOL

what? why?

nostalgia

i'm gonna do it right now

Which version?

CorpseRT wrote: »

Man, I think I've still got a stack of those AOL CD's laying around somewhere.

I bet they still have like a fucking warehouse FULL of installation CDs that they can't get rid of.

Garlic Bread

i'm on a mac so it doesn't feel right