GeoCities is dying....

BaconZombie · 23-04-2009 07:04PM #1

All I can say is an era is DEAD.....

And for anybody to young to of had a Geocities site or even hear of them I say:

"Get off my INTERNET...."

Yahoo!: We will be closing GeoCities later this year.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html

NADA · 23-04-2009 07:07PM

I never like it much so won't miss it. Actually I'm glad it's going. Yahoo!!!

23-04-2009 07:07PM

That'll take a large amount of sh!te websites off the internet anyway .. and a load of gems too

My name is URL · 23-04-2009 07:08PM

lol

Hard to believe that Yahoo! payed $3.57 billion for it.

It's creator David Bohnett is involved with OV-Guide now, can't be a bad thing. Streaming TV is the big niche of today

AlmightyCushion · 23-04-2009 07:09PM

End of an era is right. My friends would spend ages working on their fantasy wrestling websites only to start a new one a week or two later. Probably a good thing it's gone.

Dunder Mifflin · 23-04-2009 07:12PM

Random wrote: »

That'll take a large amount of sh!te websites off the internet anyway .. and a load of gems too

I'm genuinely interested to see any gems on GeoCities.

Sea Sharp · 23-04-2009 07:13PM

aw, my website from 8 years ago is gone.

3w.2ya.com

In fairness though, I'd say 97% of the content on geocities is rubbish people put up over 5 years ago that nobody bothers to look at.

jhegarty · 23-04-2009 07:13PM

http://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocities.com/

Dyr · 23-04-2009 07:20PM

I was just thinking there a while ago, how rare it is that you stumble across an old geocities style site nowadays, frames, animated gifs, , "site last updated october 98", bravenet visitor counter. scroll bars for goalposts. All going now of course, pulling em down for dem new web 2.0 sites i suppose.

Ahh..simpler times, gentler times.

Tellox · 23-04-2009 07:21PM

Never liked geocities.

I had homestead and angelfire. Go go java WYSIWYG editors.

Gordon · 23-04-2009 07:23PM

Geocities is still alive?

Mossy Monk · 23-04-2009 07:25PM

I can't say i thought it was still going. I remember looking at lots of pages when on dial up.

User45701 · 23-04-2009 08:05PM

Oah...

man i remember them in the early days when it was mostly used for gaming clan websites - along with homestead that is. Im getting all nostalgic for the old internet now. More fun less spam

Mr.Lizard · 23-04-2009 08:16PM

End of an era indeed! Sites like geocities were in their prime when the internet was still fun and novel. Totally rubbish facility filled with usually totally rubbish content but I think I'll always remember them fondly.

Dunder Mifflin wrote: »

I'm genuinely interested to see any gems on GeoCities.

Here's some I have in my address book that still appear to exist. Whether you'll consider them 'gems' is another question.

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/9622/

http://www.geocities.com/area51/shadowlands/6756/

http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/hist/disasters-war.html#natural

rainbow kirby · 23-04-2009 08:19PM

Finally, the site I made when I was in 5th year in school will come to a bitter end.

Takes me back to the bad old days of dialup...

jester77 · 23-04-2009 08:25PM

Whoah, I didn't even know it was still around.

/* Goes off to see if Angelfire still exists */

Dord · 23-04-2009 08:25PM

There are still some good electronics related sites on geocities. It'll be sad to see them go.

Overheal · 23-04-2009 09:31PM

i made a website there once. all i can really say though is Meh. Plenty of similar services around if you look for them.

jhegarty · 23-04-2009 09:39PM

Surely they could sell it for a few million instead of just shutting down.

DenMan · 23-04-2009 09:43PM

I used to have great time going throught the GeoCities web links. Am big into computer game music and visited midi and mp3 GeoCities pages over the years (before vgmusic.com etc came on the scene). Great times. Sad to hear it's going.

thealltimelow · 23-04-2009 09:51PM

r.i.p GeoCities

Ruu_Old · 23-04-2009 09:54PM

I have mine at Fortune Cities.

Terry · 23-04-2009 10:01PM

Heh.
My first and only attempt at creating a website.

I think it got 100 hits. The url was about 6 miles long.
It was pulled years ago because I stopped updating it.

Jesus. That was the mid 90's. I can't believe I've been using hte internet for that long and I still don't know how to use google.

galwayrush · 23-04-2009 10:06PM

Had to Google GeoCities to what the hell it was.:o

My name is URL · 23-04-2009 10:25PM

jhegarty wrote: »

Surely they could sell it for a few million instead of just shutting down.

Only the domain name is worth that tbh, which is why they won't sell it.

Web 2.0 (hate that term lol) means that people don't need their own sites containing the stuff that interests them, because the sites of today like last.fm, blogger.com etc allow them to do what they'd be doing on GC with less effort and more chance of finding a following and people who share their interests.

It's still a pity to see it go though

jester77 · 23-04-2009 10:36PM

Ruu wrote: »

I have mine at Fortune Cities.

I forgot I had a site there, just did a Google and bits of it are still there, last updated 29 September 1999

Nevyn · 23-04-2009 10:41PM

I prefered the globe site personally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theglobe.com
But yes totally end of an era.

amacachi · 23-04-2009 10:41PM

Kinda sad seeing all those hosting sites gone. I remember thinking Angelfire offering 50 megs was something great. :P

23-04-2009 11:37PM

The internet's too cool now I guess. I remember people would have guestbooks and they'd be full of "Hey really cool site!!" messages.
Now all you'd get is "Nice site, ******" or "Lol geocities? Fag"

I had a geocities that I never used. Angelfire I think still actually works. 25 megabits of web shítness

Creamy Goodness · 23-04-2009 11:42PM

.

will we now see polls on boards with the geocities option instead of atari jaguar?

23-04-2009 11:48PM

nostalgia..

but then i think back to dial-up. nostalgia gone..

GeoCities is dying....

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