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!
#2
ScytheRexx
The new layout for XKCD makes so much sense now.
Farewell, GC.
#3
Shegokigo
One of the original big name free webhosts. *salute*
It's a little sad seeing it go. Only a little, though.
#6
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
#7
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.
#8
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.
#9
bhamv3
Farewell, Geocities. You kinda sucked, but I will miss you nonetheless.
#10
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.
#11
Vytamindi
Oh noooo!!!! I am so very sad!
#12
Gusto
MY POKEMON FANSITE!
NOOOOOOOO
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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.
#15
sixpackshaker
Man, I am going to end up losing a kit car website I visit quite a bit.
#16
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.
#17
Hylian
#18
Gusto
My pokemon fansite had an animated background image.
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):