Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Good bye Geocities  (Read 2644 times)

mooseberry

  • Community Moderators
  • *
  • Posts: 4005
  • Turrets: +666/-325
Good bye Geocities
« on: October 27, 2009, 03:00:30 am »
So geocities is shutting down today. What does this mean? Well no more of those UNDER CONSTRUCTION banners, midi loops, broken code (ok maybe not the end of all of that, but a lot) on webpages. If you don't know what geocities was you were probably born last year, but here is wikipedia to save the day. Geocities was the place where many people first tried their hands at designing and maintaining webpages, and of course, many people were very bad at it.

I just felt like taking the time to post here so that we could pay our respects (or not) to this venerable internet service, and possibly reminisce about the olden days.

If you're interested, XKCD's site was changed recentoly to commemorate the shutting down of geocities, and here it is. (Using a mirrored site because I figure XKCD's main page will change back by wednesday.)

Here are three articles on Geocities and it's closing which some of you may like to read:

Feel free to post here about any reactions, thoughts, memories or such that you may have about Geocities and its closing.
Good bye.

P.S. This thread best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.7 or higher.
« Last Edit: October 27, 2009, 05:27:31 am by mooseberry »
Logged
Bucket: [You hear the distant howl of a coyote losing at Counterstrike.]

मैं हिन्दी का समर्थन

~Mooseberry.

Winnie the Pooh

  • Posts: 442
  • Turrets: +45/-85
Re: Good bye Geocities
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2009, 03:17:26 am »
Yeah, I saw it on XKCD. =( It's so sad!
Logged
Quote
I also realize that this is the internet, but even more so this is the forum for a video game on an internet, then even beyond that this is TREMULOUS forums the Satan version of all video game forums for a video game that is ON the internet.

Bissig

  • Posts: 1309
  • Turrets: +103/-131
Re: Good bye Geocities
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2009, 03:24:16 am »
At times, when you didn't fear to put up ripped mp3s on public webspace - I owned myself some auto-generated accounts with an auto-generated winamp playlist with direct download links to the mp3s.

Ah, the good, old times before the lawyer fucks discovered the world wide tubes.
Logged

Demolution

  • Posts: 1198
  • Turrets: +157/-64
Re: Good bye Geocities
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2009, 05:05:31 am »
Bye broken yet amusing pages of strange wingdings and flashing banners.  :-[
Logged

Clan [AC] - For all your air conditioning needs please visit: http://s1.zetaboards.com/AC_NoS/index/
Quote from: swamp-cecil on October 05, 2010, 09:04:04 pm
my brain > your brain.
and i am VERY stupid.

Grape

  • Posts: 308
  • Turrets: +42/-74
Re: Good bye Geocities
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2009, 11:41:02 am »
nooooooooo! I made so many sites using geocities LMAO
Logged

Jedarus

  • Posts: 281
  • Turrets: +36/-10
Re: Good bye Geocities
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2009, 01:58:56 pm »
nooooooooooooo no more fansites dedicated to yugioh and d&d the end of the world is nigh!
Logged
Quote from: Creative1
Go get some gasoline and light your fucking pubes on fire
Pages: [1]   Go Up