GeoCities is being shut down today.

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YAOMTC

Yep.

GeoCities

It's time to say good-bye to GeoCities - CNET News: Webware

What A $3.65 Billion Mistake Looks Like - Business Insider: Silicon Alley Insider

Perhaps the largest removal in Internet history? Though only a tiny fraction of it is actually worth something. (Hopefully a good chunk of that was archived.) I know I wouldn't have minded so much if my first site got taken down, but I saved it for... sentimental reasons. It sucked... but it's good to be able to "look back down the road" or something like that.

Bye, GeoCities. Nice knowing you!
 
strawman

strawman

The first wide spread place you could host your own content.

Lots of good stuff going down the tubes along with all the rest of the drivel.

Hopefully archive.org has the important bits.

-Adam
 
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Heavan

I had two Geocities websites in my youth... they were garbage and I print screened the important parts, but man, I'm sad that this has to happen. I spent countless hours making something no one checked.
 
twitchmoss

twitchmoss

*salutes*

godspeed geocities. i know i had a page... but i've long since forgotten what it was. whatever it was/is, its off to the big server in the sky.:(
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Goodbye and many thanks, Geocities.

You hosted my first two webpages until I stopped caring about them. But that's on me and not you.
 
Gusto

Gusto

MY POKEMON FANSITE!

NOOOOOOOO

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^ This is genuine. :(
 
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Chazwozel

bhamv3 said:
Farewell, Geocities. You kinda sucked, but I will miss you nonetheless.
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Geocities didn't suck 99% of the websites people made on Geocities sucked.

I will always miss my old "Matt's Descent Map Page" --a cheap knockoff of Pooterman's Descent Page www.pooterman.com

Now I'm getting all nostalgic of playing Descent I/II and Warcraft 2 over Kali, and the long chat sessions in the Kali common room. Those were the days, back before online multiplayer was as easy to do as it is now. I remember shelling out 50 bucks for a sweet 33.6 bp modem for my rocking Pentium 75, 8 Megs of ram, Voodoo2 vid card system. Hell yeah, son.
 
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ThatNickGuy

GeoCities, back in the day, was like the equivilent of today's Facebook or MySpace. Everyone had a goddamn GeoCities page at one time or another. Hell, I remember making one that was going to be wrestling reviews and such.

*salute* We'll miss you, crappy sites with animated gifs.
 
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Qonas

ThatNickGuy said:
GeoCities, back in the day, was like the equivilent of today's Facebook or MySpace. Everyone had a goddamn GeoCities page at one time or another.
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My first was just some random generic webpage to see what I could do. It gave my parents the mistaken impression I understood HTML code.

My second Geocities was an in-depth, classily designed (it had FRAMES! and only very small animated GIFs of Star Trek ships) page for my ship in the Star Trek e-mail roleplay game I had joined: Bravo Fleet. NEEEERRRRRRRRD!

EDIT: Hey whoa, the "simverse" is still going and so is my character (who was the origin of the name Qonas):

http://www.ussgalaxy.net/database/recurring/people.htm
 
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