Comments on: Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities

By: How Long Will Your Code Last? | Bryant Rethinks Software

How Long Will Your Code Last? | Bryant Rethinks Software — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:09:59 +0000

[...] Geocities (which incidentally just shut down) [...]

By: BlueComet.TV | where live music lives » Radiohead art vs. GOP candidate website

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:34:29 +0000

[...] a) Hail to the Thief’s album art prophetically foretold 4th-district North Carolina web politics b) GOP web designers are giving a shout-out to the sixth anniversary of the 2003 album c) George Hutchins hasn’t been on the Internets in 15 years and built his own website using Geocities [...]

By: MSI

MSI — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:26:25 +0000

I started learning web designing from geocities. Geocities was the first free web page builder marketplace and many people around the globe benefited by using their outstanding FREE service. I had couple of free presences on geocities. I came across http://www.geoc...alternative.com and found it to be a useful company offering special plan for those who lost their web presence.

By: asdf

asdf — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:50:11 +0000

I do recommend you check his website out it is hilarious, here’s a quote:

“I just finished my new web site puffpeople.org What an experience! You have got to have the best there is to offer when a novice like me wants to put up a silly little web page”

I love the picture of this lady too.

By: asdf

asdf — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:47:12 +0000

What BBS allowed HTML? You mean ANSI graphics?

By: Yapster

Yapster — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:32 +0000

haha! my first was Angelfire too, then made one with GeoCities eventually. I guess it’s all in the past now, all part of the 90’s capsule

I didnt even have a printscreen of it! lols

By: godaddy

godaddy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:55:23 +0000

Former GeoCities users: $1.99 domains at Go Daddy. Each domain comes with free hosting. Use code GEO199 at checkout. Offer ends 11/9.

By: joseph sixpack

joseph sixpack — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:25:19 +0000

There’s a lot of good content on Geocities that will be lost forever. Yahoo is a big suck for doing this.

By: GeoCities is Closing: Here’s How to Wiki-fy Your Sites | talkbullion

GeoCities is Closing: Here’s How to Wiki-fy Your Sites | talkbullion — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:19:00 +0000

[...] TechCrunch put it, “Long before MySpace, Geocities was known as a place where teenagers, college students, and [...]

By: GeoCities is Closing: Here’s How to Wiki-fy Your Sites

GeoCities is Closing: Here’s How to Wiki-fy Your Sites — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:37:03 +0000

[...] TechCrunch put it, “Long before MySpace, Geocities was known as a place where teenagers, college students, and [...]

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:38:50 +0000

Now Google’s best friend, Dmoz is going to end-up with thousands of geocities dead sites listing.

By: News Dosh | Internet Archaeology: In which the internet’s sordid past is preserved and curated

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:23:57 +0000

[...] wasn’t long ago that we heard about the imminent demise of one of the net’s most infamous and venerable sites: Geocities. At the time, we could [...]

By: Internet Archaeology: In Which The Internet’s Sordid Past Is Preserved And Curated | ScooperNews.com

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:23:08 +0000

[...] wasn’t long ago that we heard about the imminent demise of one of the net’s most infamous and venerable sites: Geocities. At the time, we could [...]

By: Internet Archaeology: In which the sordid past of the internet is preserved forever

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:25:51 +0000

[...] wasn’t long ago that we heard about the imminent demise of one of the net’s most infamous and venerable sites: Geocities. At the time, we could [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:35:12 +0000

Geocities was gay.

By: MisterShortcut

MisterShortcut — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:51:47 +0000

Wow. Having built quite more than a thousand of the internet’s largest (most deliciously interactive) self-empowerment and health websites SINCE creating http://geocitie...thens/Troy/9949 all those years ago, no small thanks goes to GeoCities for giving us all a forum for beginning, a place to craft our own little niche.

How many of us have created a significant presence on the internet because of GeoCities?

Like many, this closing is worth a teardrop, hm?

Thank you, GeoCities of the 1990’s

By: Internet Archaeology

Internet Archaeology — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:37:29 +0000

InternetArchaeology.org is in the process of preserving Geocities, we are currently downloading thousands of sites for cultural prosperity.

Since 1994 Geocities has provided users with free homepages. This is from an age when the word homepage really meant something. The internet was rooted in the real world, because it had to be. Web 1.0 was all about giving anyone who wanted a voice, a voice. Pages were more fixed, they were treated like plots of land. When someone changes something on a plot of land people know, this holds true with the analogy in Web 1.0 (ala PAGE LAST UPDATED XXXX) . Geocities was a designed as a digital utopia, a network of ?cities?? which were named things like CapitalHill and WestHollywood (it is amazing and beautiful that in the 1994 beginnings of the internet there was a plot of land designated for homosexuals to have a voice) Geocities was remarkable in the sense it was the first service to provide free plots of land regardless of creed.. now it is expected that all content production on the internet be free.

Web 2.0 is all about everyone being a content creator and contributer. In this model it is the NEW that is valued. Up to the minute everything. This is great, but content becomes transient, not rooted in anything. Authorship becomes fuzzy as information moves at warp speed around the net. This is the reason that there is little value to digital content today.

The notion of value is at the pith of IA?s mission.

We wish to present digital artifacts in the same fashion as a museum; so that they can be culturally appreciated as much as physical artifacts. It is this large concept of collective value which is much bigger than any one individual.

Ryder Ripps
Director/Curator
InternetArchaeology.org

By: Jessica Sideways

Jessica Sideways — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:11:53 +0000

I remember good ol’ Geocities back when I was creating my first website. While I do not remember the four digit number after my neighbourhood, I remember that I set up my first homepage in /SiliconValley/Byte/ back before Geocities was purchased by Yahoo! Hell, that was how I got my first Yahoo account too…

By: skeletor

skeletor — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:28:09 +0000

Its a case of mismanagement. So much was expected out of geocities. I think it was done to get Yahoo web hosting on road
http://www.friendcircle.in

By: Global Geek News Podcast #22 | Global Geek News

Global Geek News Podcast #22 | Global Geek News — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:59:19 +0000

[...] Yahoo quietly pulls the plug on Geocities [...]

By: Robert Ray Hedges

Robert Ray Hedges — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:46:10 +0000

I have over 100 geocities sites as part of my children’s immortality link farm ( divine spam)
and connected to and affecting the children’s internet coup immortality search manipulation strategy.

By: Internet Fads: GeoLOLTwit | K-Squared Ramblings

Internet Fads: GeoLOLTwit | K-Squared Ramblings — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:55:17 +0000

[...] Farewell, Geocities. It was nice knowing you. (Wait, no it wasn’t!) # [...]

By: skeletor

skeletor — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:10:38 +0000

I remember geocities as my 1st reliable free host. I had no information of html (still dont) but it still allowed me to get my webpages and content online.
I will miss it.
http://www.usfuncities.com

By: Yahoo! cierra Geocities y sigue limpiando la Wall of Shame | SHBTeam

Yahoo! cierra Geocities y sigue limpiando la Wall of Shame | SHBTeam — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:07:07 +0000

[...] Techcrunch que está haciendo un concurso para ver quien encuentra el diseño más feo de una página de [...]

By: guss

guss — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:52:22 +0000

I will miss geocities forever. I am burdened with moving the data
to my new site
http://www.mcqsurgery.com