Geocities No More Today 10-26-09

gonzo · 10-26-2009

How many of you started out with geocities as a website or something similiar? Yahoo getting a taste of the hosting market.

http://geocities.yahoo.com/

softball · 10-26-2009

A passing of an era.....we had one, of course. Back when it was all a mystery and getting "on" the internet was magic. It was way more fun back then.

gonzo · 10-26-2009

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Originally Posted by rhetorical

A passing of an era.....we had one, of course. Back when it was all a mystery and getting "on" the internet was magic. It was way more fun back then.

Back when AOL made millions of pimping themselves as THE INTERNET.

Toby · 10-26-2009

moment of silence observed

DannyCox · 10-26-2009

Never had a geocities account. in fact, we were around before they were!

Evil Chris · 10-26-2009

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Originally Posted by DannyCox

Never had a geocities account. in fact, we were around before they were!

Same here.

My first "home page" was on Linq (a local Montreal "ISP") even before Carol's site was online!

gonzo · 10-26-2009

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Originally Posted by Evil Chris

Same here.

My first "home page" was on Linq (a local Montreal "ISP") even before Carol's site was online!

Home page was the buzzword.

I had my first one over on uunet.

cd34 · 10-26-2009

A group is archiving it and reopening it under reocities.com and they do have a link fixer plugin that will fix the links on your page. No 'editor', but I believe they are allowing FTP/publishing access.

Hell Puppy · 10-26-2009

Shows the complete lack of vision of Yahoo and why they're struggling to stay relevant despite once upon a time being the largest site on the web.

Geocities was positioned to evolve into something like myspace or facebook or any number of other communities. It was active, vibrant, and even required minimal overhead as they had moderators doing most of the work for 'em.

And yahoo still managed to fuck it up.

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softball Members Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 6,165	Re: Geocities No More Today 10-26-09 A passing of an era.....we had one, of course. Back when it was all a mystery and getting "on" the internet was magic. It was way more fun back then.

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DannyCox I like cheese Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Montreal, QC, CA Posts: 1,185	Re: Geocities No More Today 10-26-09 Never had a geocities account. in fact, we were around before they were! __________________ iAmateurs Network Amateur Niche Affiliate Programs

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Hell Puppy Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6,523	Re: Geocities No More Today 10-26-09 Shows the complete lack of vision of Yahoo and why they're struggling to stay relevant despite once upon a time being the largest site on the web. Geocities was positioned to evolve into something like myspace or facebook or any number of other communities. It was active, vibrant, and even required minimal overhead as they had moderators doing most of the work for 'em. And yahoo still managed to fuck it up.