geocities is closing
 

So... I mean, I know most of you don't have geocities accounts... but I do! I had to move everything over to angelfire. Not a big hassle really, but, still, a hassle. Figured I'd give a heads-up...

Damn.... That's a BIG site too. I wonder why it's closing?

~Jeremy~

Yahoo's "careful consideration", according to the page....

$$$

That's lame. Geocities was the best of the free websites I thought!

I figured that was the "real" reason.

~Jeremy~

I had a Nintendo 64 page 11 years ago (bolded and italicized because I, myself, can't believe it was that long ago!), and it was on Geocities. First webpage I ever was on, obviously, and I learned html through it and all sorts of other things. It was great. It was called Planet 64. I eventually moved up in the world with a friend and we called the site N64 Surge. We ended up getting like 500,000 hits on a simplenet page... Ah, the good old days.

I know a bit about HTML now (though I never show it), and it's all thanks to Geocities! That was SO cool back in the day.. to make your own webpage... and Geocities, Angelfire, Xoom, and Tripod all made it possible. Look for those to go next (well, I don't know if Xoom's still around -- I doubt it. I know Tripod and Angelfire are).

Ha, I remember my brother had a geocities site under TimesSquare.

Yeah, mine was geocities slash hollywood slash 4967. I don't know why I still remember that. Eventually, they let you just put whatever name you wanted afterwards.

geowhat?

is this 1996?

ha ha ha

opish balh

ahab.

thank fucking gawd.

although it might have been a great place to hold photobooks online, it's a terrible place to link from.

would'nt it be fun

whats going to happen to it? will it be lost forever or be stored somewhere?

probably gone forever.

though you could visit the pages on archive.org I imagine.

www.geocities.com/tyrannorabbit is one of my all time favorite websites...

damn. I have a bunch of OLD stuff hosted on a geocities account.. not sure if I want to rescue any of it or not though.. I used to hotlink my imgs by changing the extensions from .jpg to .txt, which thanks to a lazy anti hotlink file, worked.

hummm. I used to have a crappy website in oldold geocities too, but there is no way I remember what / name/name/ it was.

how will I consult King Crimson bootlegs?!
http://www.geocities.com/kcrimsonlive/index.htm

Yes ! This is nuts ! I handnt thought of it in a long time. As a younger teenage girl under influence I made a site dedicated to girl bass players such as white zombie's sean yseult, hole's kirsten pfaff, and smashing pumpkins' D'arcy wretszky, not to mention kim gordon.

Strange times, this, but inevitable.

Wow, first Napster, then Netscape Navigator and now Geocities as well.... what's next? Altavista?

I guess the 90's are really over now.

I really feel like geocities closing is sad.

Web 1.0 was it. I miss those animated gifs bad.

Man, remember when you'd stumble across someone's personal page and it was just a million animated gifs, midis in the background (which like 10 minutes to load!), and dead links?

Haha, I miss those days. Those were also right before the days of Napster and such, and you had to go to those pages if you wanted to download music, and the songs were usually in Real Player format.

AOL hometown has gone too.

no-one seems to make their own sites now, I remember when bands had a geocities site rather than a myspace (or facebook now).

also those animations that'd follow the cursor. amazing!

Laziness, that's why.

I could go on about this for hour's (and I did on the phone yesterday), but people want to get famous with as little effort as possible. Even starting your own crappy webpage had somewhat of a DIY asthetic to it. Now with myspace and such, people just let other people do the hard work and still hope to get famous. You know those stupid messages that go around, saying to get a band name by clicking "random article" at wikipedia? Bands actually do that, because they are too lazy to come up with a name for their band, something that should be specific to them to describe their music and how they feel about it! But they are too freakin' lazy!!




But I digress. Hey, anybody remember the old ICQ?

yeah, I remember my number - 80128590!



also, I have a geocities page :)

www.geocities.com/scissor_shock

OH GOD REAL PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!11 i totally forget real audio!! .ra, .ram, and .rm files on my computer. So ridiculous.

I used to have a folder full of .ram files, and I made all of the songs with bad language hidden so my mom wouldn't find them :) haha

I used to enjoy happy flowers aol site:

http://web.archive.org/web/200204090...mtbrand=AOL_US

There was a time when everybody liked hampsterdance, not just old people...

GEOCITIES CLOSING?!

How will you fags hampsterdance or Atsonicpark ever be able to look at thumbs going up bums ever AGAIN!?

RIP

A timely reminder that the internet has no obligation make an archive of un-interesting self-indulgent shite. Also, a timely reminder that nostalgia's memory is always blind to how shit something actually was.

"Nobody makes their own sites now" seems an odd statement when more people make their own sites now than ever before.

I saved the most important pages of the King Crimson Live! website - 1969-1974. But of course thats going to be out of date after a while.
I sent an email a while back to the operator asking what would be happening to the database, never got a reply :S

www.reocities.com
www.archive.org

Angelfire is still 'round, I believe.

I was also on geocities very early on. I ahd two websites for my art.

speaking of ancient shit, remember when I put andy warhol's face on layla?