GeoCities is dying....

crushproof · 24-04-2009 12:43AM

amacachi wrote: »

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

Haha, ah yes....spending hours looking for which host offered the best. geocities, 50meg, angelfire, homestead, tripod, bravenet. good times had by all :rolleyes:
Simple times

A Primal Nut · 24-04-2009 03:12AM

Thats a shame. It was a great introduction to designing websites. I remember creating a wrestling e-fed when I was like 15 that all my friends joined.

It was cool at the time, right!!:)

What do people use to make their own websites now anyway? Or do private people not make websites anymore due to social networking?

amacachi · 24-04-2009 03:23AM

crushproof wrote: »

Haha, ah yes....spending hours looking for which host offered the best. geocities, 50meg, angelfire, homestead, tripod, bravenet. good times had by all :rolleyes:
Simple times

And "learning" html just to feel even cooler. :P

KingLoser · 24-04-2009 04:35AM

Let's get the Government to take on all the bad sites, and create a toxic host that we can all pay to upkeep!

R.I.P. Geocities, and your sad illegitimate brother, FrontPage Express.

Linku · 24-04-2009 06:00AM

Homestead always had the better WYSIWYG editor. I made many crappy sites back in the day.

Tripod/Angelfire were the worst because you couldn't hotlink images - unless you renamed them as .txt and tricked them!

samhail · 24-04-2009 08:29AM

I cant believe that websites that i put up in college in like 2002 are still alive and kicking up there !

fifth · 24-04-2009 08:31AM

Blast from the past..

I see Angelfire are still offering a whole 20 megs webspace

!

the_syco · 24-04-2009 08:42AM

rainbow kirby wrote: »

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

That it does. Don't have to move my website, though... it's on Angelfire. It's a great place for storing bookmarks in a site that can be accessed from work.

0ubliette · 24-04-2009 09:06AM

Wow, i remember back when everyone had a geocities site, and would link it to their avatar in a beseen chatroom

I thinkmy angelfire page is still alive, im actually too embarassed to even look for it to tell the truth. One of the reasons i broke up with my last ex, the stalking bitch found my angelfire page from like 7 years ago online and started ripping me about it!! ****ing stalker weirdo bitch

kippy · 24-04-2009 09:14AM

I had a site there on Slane and the gigs that happen there annually.
Most recent update about years ago.
Sadly didnt have a backup of the site and the whole lot was deleted by Yahoo a few years ago.
I suppose bebo/facebook and those new fangled thingies have meant that any joe soap can have a "web presence" without knowing the techie bits and pieces.

Doctor DooM · 24-04-2009 09:14AM

Nooo way.

I had a band website there... cut my ITeeth on geocities.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-04-2009 11:55AM

Should this be moved to retro ?

But who owns the old sites :eek:

Peteee · 24-04-2009 12:10PM

xoom.com was where it was at!

Executive Steve · 24-04-2009 12:59PM

a very sad for anyone who likes to browse around lookign for conspiracy theorists and the like...

always used to tingle with anticipation if the CIA-supressed perpetual motion machine machine link i was about to click was hosted on geocities - a sure fire sign that animated gifs and much insanity lay in wait...

25-04-2009 12:30PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Should this be moved to retro ?

But who owns the old sites :eek:

Shortly after Yahoo! bought GeoCities they changed the terms of service to say that they owned the rights to any content on the site. It was changed after a mass defection of users. Looking back on it, does that mean I could have put MP3s or porn on and they'd be liable since they technically "own" it?

I never had a GeoCities account myself but two of my brothers had a few, at least three. I also seem to remember that Grokster, one of the Kazaa clones, ripped off the GeoCities 'g' logo.

Dave! · 25-04-2009 01:31PM

Good. It was nothing but ads and popups and sh*te.

Alter-Ego · 25-04-2009 04:06PM

Jeeze. I had loads of sites on there but i've only been able to find one and I can only access index.html. At one point i must have been knocking out 1 or 2 useless wastes of webspace per week. Good times. *Wipes Tear

KeyLimePie · 25-04-2009 04:18PM

oh my ! that's actually sad $:\$
even though i had my first website on bravenet i still remember finding about anime on geocities sites !
oh nostalgia

FruitLover · 25-04-2009 04:32PM

This is a travesty. 90% of the world's supply of <blink> and <marquee> tags will disappear forever! :eek:

Xiney · 25-04-2009 05:09PM

Thank God.

I have a website from when I was 14 up, complete with angsty prose.

I've forgotten the password to take it down, however. Thank Christ it will cease to exist soon.

Edit: oh ****, I forgot I put the drawings up too. oh holy jesus.

D.Q · 25-04-2009 05:11PM

i do not know of what you speak.

justforgroups · 28-05-2009 04:37PM

Looking for an alternative to Geocities...

Have read though the last 4 pages. The two that kept coming up was AngleFire and Homestead. Homestead however is not free like geocities (just a 30 day trial). The interface of AngleFire isn't great but is a possibility as there's a free offering which looks ok.

Any other recommendations for a geocities-like host? Thanks!

Epic Tissue · 28-05-2009 04:41PM

Geocities was ****e:rolleyes:

Dave! · 28-05-2009 04:42PM

Xiney wrote: »

Thank God.

I have a website from when I was 14 up, complete with angsty prose.

I've forgotten the password to take it down, however. Thank Christ it will cease to exist soon.

Edit: oh ****, I forgot I put the drawings up too. oh holy jesus.

ahahha, I had one of those sites too

Wasn't with geocities, but with any luck it will have died also

MrVestek · 28-05-2009 08:15PM

I had a site like that once... just remebered it after seeing this thread. Wasn't on Geocities though was on Angelfire.

According to Google a good portion of the site still exists. It's a 14 year old boy (at the time)'s Dreamcast fansite.

Anybody fancy a laugh? Seems there's an old pic of me up there too!

http://www.angelfire.com/pq/dreamania

Camarague · 28-05-2009 10:09PM

I have a geocities website, since 1999. It has been bad for the past 5 years, in that the bandwidth available has been severely restricted.

What good alternative is there?