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Geocities DEAD???

logic7logic7 Registered User regular
edited October 2009 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
http://www.pcworld.com/article/163765/so_long_geocities_we_forgot_you_still_existed.html

From Slashdot - http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/27/2252227

At least someone is trying to archive all of it.

I've got to archive my site now... I was actually semi-maintaining it too...

(http://www.geocities.com/labwerx)

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    you may be the only person left actually using it.

    Seriously, Geocities had it's hayday in 1999. I hadn't even heard the name in probably 4 years, and didn't even know it still existed until I heard it was closing.

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  • logic7logic7 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    probably am the only one using it still... wouldn't doubt it. Guess I gotta stop being a cheap-ass and actually pay for hosting somewhere.

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Oh no! My runescape web comi...
    I mean I've never heard of this site before, is it like google maps for city geography?

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  • ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Can't some of the internet just die already?

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I wish xoom would come back with a vengeance.

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I'm not sure whether to express my feeling of loss or say, "finally!"

    While it's a shame to see such a site go down after practically growing up browsing multitudes of pages hosted by it in the 90s, those sites, even with rose-tinted glasses, are abusive to your eyes..

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  • LuqLuq Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Oh no, my FF III shrine I made as a 12 year old!!! Gone forever!

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  • logic7logic7 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I lost one site when The Globe went bust years ago. That pissed me off to no end. They actually gave you FTP access to upload your files, that was nice!

    My "HTML for Dummies" book and CD (with craptastic no-frames support editor!!!) I got back in '97 got sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much use on The Globe and Geocities!

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    lol, Geoshitties finally died. Took long enough.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    logic7 wrote: »
    probably am the only one using it still... wouldn't doubt it. Guess I gotta stop being a cheap-ass and actually pay for hosting somewhere.

    nearlyfrespeech.net is cheap and doesn't rip off your low-traffic website on bullshit high-traffic plans.

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  • Post BluePost Blue Redmond, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Exceeded its bandwidth.

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  • jackaljackal Fuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse. Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Damn, FortuneCity outlived it.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Oh no where will I go now for pilotwing 64 cheat codes!

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  • logic7logic7 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    jackal wrote: »
    Damn, FortuneCity outlived it.

    and Tripod.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    so many crappy old website hosts.

    fortunecity, angelfire, tripod, geocities... god, the 90s were horrible for internets

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Oh my god tripod. That had been erased from my memory.

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  • jackaljackal Fuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse. Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    logic7 wrote: »
    jackal wrote: »
    Damn, FortuneCity outlived it.

    and Tripod.

    Well, it better. What would the internet be without the occasional "Hosted by Tripod" image?

    edit: Should be, "Well, it better outlive Geocities."

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    jackal wrote: »
    logic7 wrote: »
    jackal wrote: »
    Damn, FortuneCity outlived it.

    and Tripod.

    Well, it better. What would the internet be without the occasional "Hosted by Tripod" image?

    Way better? I'm bitter.

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    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    so many crappy old website hosts.

    fortunecity, angelfire, tripod, geocities... god, the 90s were horrible for internets

    Geocities was pretty cool when it first came along.

    Popularity ruined it though.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Nooooo, not my website from the year 2000!

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    The last time I used geocities was so long ago, they deleted the page.

    It was somewhere between '96 and '98, I can't remember for sure. It was before they had templates, you just got a text box where you pasted html and it was made available to the web.

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Man I had a geocities site back in like 1996. I remember when they added ads to pages, and when they introduced that stupid watermark. I'm sure it's long gone by now.

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    is this a necro from 2001?

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  • logic7logic7 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    my old design for my site actually won an award with Geocities. I got bumped up to 20MB of space... which they never took away.

    funny thing... The logo on my old page got copied by a web designer, I ended up meeting the guy who copied it. He was friends with another DJ I knew and we met trying to put together a club night. I showed hoim my page and he flipped out. "DUDE!!! You designed that??? I just copied that design for a website I was working on!!!"

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  • EgoEgo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I wish I could still log into my geocities page. Sadly years ago I'd taken down the index file (well, replaced it with a blank) so now I can't just piece it together by looking at it. And I DO remember my damned password, which just makes this more irritating. I have no idea how they did usernames back then though, and hence no idea what mine might be. Nowadays logins seem to be with yahoo IDs.

    http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/vista/3960/dogs.html

    *salute*

    As geocities passes from this earth, so too, perhaps, will my penchant for run on sentences.
    Geocities is the home on the net for over 900 000 people, it's not just a place to shove yer web-page, it's a community. Geocities gives out 2 megs of web-page space, and an E-Mail address, for free, the only catch is that you need to put a link back to geocities (oh, big deal) and that you have to update your page every few months, which shouldn't really be a problem (you have to update it almost weekly if it's incredibly small, as in 1400 bytes or less

    *grin*. That second sentence ran on so long that it escaped the clutches of the period altogether.

    My spelling has improved over the years. My habit of excessive parenthetic usage... less so.

    Ego on
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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Geocities IS dead.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Haha, this thread made me go back and look at my old, old, OLD site back when I played Dark Age of Camelot

    http://www.angelfire.com/games4/saiyans/

    Angelfire is next I'm sure.

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    it is truly the end of an era

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    urahonky wrote: »
    Haha, this thread made me go back and look at my old, old, OLD site back when I played Dark Age of Camelot

    http://www.angelfire.com/games4/saiyans/

    Angelfire is next I'm sure.

    Holy fuck is that page awful, it's been awhile since I've seen one that bad.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Darmak wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Haha, this thread made me go back and look at my old, old, OLD site back when I played Dark Age of Camelot

    http://www.angelfire.com/games4/saiyans/

    Angelfire is next I'm sure.

    Holy fuck is that page awful, it's been awhile since I've seen one that bad.

    I... Fuck you. :(

    I was working with no HTML knowledge and a 15 year old mind.

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  • Bryse EayoBryse Eayo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    urahonky wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Haha, this thread made me go back and look at my old, old, OLD site back when I played Dark Age of Camelot

    http://www.angelfire.com/games4/saiyans/

    Angelfire is next I'm sure.

    Holy fuck is that page awful, it's been awhile since I've seen one that bad.

    I... Fuck you. :(

    I was working with no HTML knowledge and a 15 year old mind.

    Ahahahahah Background music.

    My 10 year old self thought that was the height of internet tech and I included different midis on each page of my tripod site.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Bryse Eayo wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Haha, this thread made me go back and look at my old, old, OLD site back when I played Dark Age of Camelot

    http://www.angelfire.com/games4/saiyans/

    Angelfire is next I'm sure.

    Holy fuck is that page awful, it's been awhile since I've seen one that bad.

    I... Fuck you. :(

    I was working with no HTML knowledge and a 15 year old mind.

    Ahahahahah Background music.

    My 10 year old self thought that was the height of internet tech and I included different midis on each page of my tripod site.

    I think I did too. :P

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  • logic7logic7 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Bryse Eayo wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Haha, this thread made me go back and look at my old, old, OLD site back when I played Dark Age of Camelot

    http://www.angelfire.com/games4/saiyans/

    Angelfire is next I'm sure.

    Holy fuck is that page awful, it's been awhile since I've seen one that bad.

    I... Fuck you. :(

    I was working with no HTML knowledge and a 15 year old mind.

    Ahahahahah Background music.

    My 10 year old self thought that was the height of internet tech and I included different midis on each page of my tripod site.


    midi music... 1995... AOL... Nutscrape/Internet Exploder... $39/month for 33.6K dialup... visions of my old Packard Bell Legend 2000 486sx25 w/8 WHOLE MB of RAM and Win3.11!!!


    *goes insane*

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  • MorskittarMorskittar Lord Warlock Engineer SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I think I hear a modem somewhere in the distance.

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  • Mmmm... Cocks...Mmmm... Cocks... Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I sadly, I guess like 9 or 10 years ago, had a DBZ RPG site.
    You know, one of them forum based ones?
    Where everyone there was retarted?
    And it was run by 12 years olds? (or how old I was anyway, ew)

    I haven't been able to remember my username or password for years though.

    Heh, can we make this a general Geocities appreciation thread? Well, its more like reminiscing bad memories but they're still beautiful. :P

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    did anyone else stick <blink> into their pages strictly to annoy netscape users?

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  • jackaljackal Fuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse. Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I felt a great disturbance in the net, as if millions of animated gifs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I hope something wonderful has happened.

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  • Yellow RangerYellow Ranger Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Waaaaay back in highschool, I think in 96' I had the most bitchin' awesome Goldeneye page on Angelfire. I put so much time into that. I wish I would have saved a copy.

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A Poem By Ivy...
    Puppies

    Puppies, puppies, puppies
    All I want is puppies
    Puppies, puppies, puppies
    Will you give me puppies?
    Puppies, puppies, puppies
    Were the hell's my puppy?
    Puppies, puppies, puppies
    Puppies

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  • Dark ShroudDark Shroud Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I never used Geocities, most of the sites were so bad I didn't want to be associated with them. Even though many were owned/done by good friends.

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