Geocities shuts down today
polycounter lvl 18
Lamentations! Yahoo is pulling the plug on the Geocities power grid today, xkcd has a site redesign to commemorate it. My first Quake skins site was on Geocities and it was pretty bad, I had a computer melting java splashpage.
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the site redesign is beautiful.
i can't believe geocities was still up
So anyway, I learned html with it making clan sites for Diablo and later UO, using the demo version of Printshop Pro because at the time the thirty day limit just continued forever(it was a bug I guess) I did a bunch of those sites that later got me a job in highschool at the local computer store owned by a young guy(well 20 something) that used to fix computers at Radioshack. I worked for games and parts where I finally could stick together my own PC to play HL-1, we later started making maps and running our own UO custom server in that shop which really gave me the direction to go into video games.
Anyway, long story short, geocities kind of helped me get started in the industry in a weird way, so yeah, no big deal their gone now, but man, the memories, hopefully it'll live forever on wikipedia.
I remember going to websites like that everyday, and how they used to give me horrible baby headaches while i was traumatized by horrible internet porn.
God dammit the 90's were awesome
Yeah, but that's not as rewarding as trawling through the net was back then, is it? Remember how 'riding the information superhighway' used to be an adventure?
In remembrance of those glorious days.
It is amazing to me now that she was so capable at HTML editing to get this to work. I don't think she could do it today.
Oh, World Wide Web, how you have grown. 'Tis a far cry from Gopher and Veronica.
R.I.P geocities
Geocities was the business, and I remember making a tonne of sites through them. Good times.
So long and farewell, Geocities
The treasure at the end of the rainbow was a massive collection of FAQs on Anarchist Cookbook type shit. In-depth manuals on how to pick every model of lock, how to bust apart security cameras, how to make bombs out of household objects. It was like Gamefaqs but for sociopaths.
Man, what a relic of it's time. Now the FBI would sieze your harddrive and send you to Gitmo for even looking at a page like that.
I agree with those times, perhaps led you to where you are today... :-) RIP GeoCities...
Does anyone remember their old neighborhood names? I think I was under Eureka or something like that...
But Geocities is where I hosted my Marilyn Manson fansite in '95, which was mostly the same thing, only more spooky and with less content.
I'm pretty sure it was a site on Geocities that taught me everything I knew about modding DF2:JK too.
But yes my first site was also a geoshitties
XooM is now something utterly different.
Geocities - good riddance.
While were at it, anyone remember the first web site they ever visited?
I remember early to mid 90's some clothing store at a local mall had advertised "internet while you wait!" so while my older brother tried on pants i stumbled onto this crazy thing called the world wide web and since i had no knowledge of how to even use the provided netscape browser i was left exploring the last users chosen page, something about ozzy's suicide? cant quit remember but there was lots of green and some acsii of a guy holding a gun to his head, never forget!