Goodbye, Geocities

Onkel Neal · 10-28-09, 07:24 AM

So long, old friend.

http://www.slate.com/id/2233723/

I had several submarine websites on GeoCities, to save space from the early days.

Facebook, some day this could be you!

XabbaRus · 10-28-09, 07:28 AM

My second site was on there.

Shame, so how many other free hosting sites are there?

I don't want to have to set up a Facebook page if I don't want to.

end of an era.

SteamWake · 10-28-09, 08:49 AM

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Brimming with blinking, moving, garishly colored text and animated dancing cats, GeoCities made MySpace look like a bastion of elegance and restraint.

I wasent even aware that yahoo had bought them up. I suppose you could have seen the writing on the wall at that point.

August · 10-28-09, 08:55 AM

I had a geocities account!

Oberon · 10-28-09, 09:06 AM

I had one too, grabbed the stuff from it a few months ago when I heard that it was folding up.

Kazuaki Shimazaki II · 10-28-09, 09:31 AM

I've had a few personal websites (which I left rot) but I never used Geocities. 15MB with ads just wasn't competitive by the time I used it.

10-28-09, 07:24 AM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,383 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	Goodbye, Geocities So long, old friend. http://www.slate.com/id/2233723/ I had several submarine websites on GeoCities, to save space from the early days. Facebook, some day this could be you! __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

10-28-09, 07:28 AM	#2
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	My second site was on there. Shame, so how many other free hosting sites are there? I don't want to have to set up a Facebook page if I don't want to. end of an era. __________________

10-28-09, 08:55 AM	#4
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I had a geocities account! __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

10-28-09, 09:06 AM	#5
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	I had one too, grabbed the stuff from it a few months ago when I heard that it was folding up.

10-28-09, 09:31 AM	#6
Kazuaki Shimazaki II Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I've had a few personal websites (which I left rot) but I never used Geocities. 15MB with ads just wasn't competitive by the time I used it.