sgtcrispy Posted October 26, 2009 Geocities closes down today. Toodles http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4704/hr.html 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted October 26, 2009 I just deleted my old embarrassing web page a few month ago. I would have like a warning in case I wanted to back something up however. With web hosting as cheap and simple today, their closing was inevitable. 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted October 26, 2009 Cheap? simple? I still can't afford it. Something like geocities today but with less suck would be great to have. Still, that's a lot of stuff to just die... It's like Yahoo! wants to die. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted October 26, 2009 It's a shame because some of the oldest web pages were on Geocities. It was fun to stumble on a page from pre-2000 and have a laugh. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted October 26, 2009 Somebody should WGET that. It's historic. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted October 26, 2009 Did so last year, it's sitting in my archive. RIP Geocities.Csonicgo said:Cheap? simple? I still can't afford it. Maybe there's something here you can afford 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted October 26, 2009 Oh no, now all links to geocities sites will be 404s. That will be completely new. Oh wait... 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted October 26, 2009 Csonicgo said:Cheap? simple? I still can't afford it. you must be really poor... 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMAD Posted October 26, 2009 On a related note, xkcd wins the internet. 0 Share this post Link to post
destx Posted October 26, 2009 DooMAD said:On a related note, xkcd wins the internet. Haha, that's great. too bad about the comics though 0 Share this post Link to post
Jimmy Posted October 26, 2009 Oh shit. *goes and downloads every Yngwie Malmsteen midi on that GeoCities site he favorited but never visited* 0 Share this post Link to post
Starke Von Oben Posted October 26, 2009 Good night Sweet Prince 1994 - 2009 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 26, 2009 My old geocities page hasn't been accessible for years. I just thought they removed them all from back then. EDIT: If anyone wants to see what it was like when a young(er) Kristus, who at the time went by the handle "Ebola" was like when he had an GeoShitties account. http://web.archive.org/web/19991007150029/www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/4713/ This was 10 years ago, and I was experimenting with social interaction in my everyday life. And I always tried to be amusing, often at my own expense. But still. Geez. I don't think I can do anything worse to my reputation than this. Pedophilia perhaps. 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted October 26, 2009 MikeRS said:you must be really poor... And you must be really troll. A transaction is a transaction. Identity has to be posted, which can be stolen. I don't trust anything over the internet with my money anymore after being scammed 3 times with legit sites. So there ya go. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sporku Posted October 26, 2009 Thanks for calling the whole world (wide web) a "pussie" Kristus. I always knew that's what you really thought of us. :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 26, 2009 Kristus, your former website was like a vitriol enema to the infested bowels of t3h 1nt3rn3ts. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 26, 2009 Aww, shucks. You're making me blush. *-_-* 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted October 26, 2009 kristus said:Aww, shucks. You're making me blush. *-_-* Choice quotes: "NO I´M STILL QUITE SAIN I´LL JUST LEAVE AND MIND MY OWN BUISNESS." "This page has been spellchecked. However the spellchecker sucks so you have to accept the page like this. This page was first made with Netscape composer. But now I use notepad." "I'm really hungry right now which is bad cause I got a illness where you got a really sore throat" "Seince the demons lived for centurys in atomic waste there's no wonder they got this horrible mutation." "We um I mean I am currently in a state of HIGH productivity. However that will soon end since my interm soon is over. I study for baker and when I come home from the bakery a 10-11 o'clock in the morning you don't got that much to do." :P 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted October 26, 2009 Csonicgo said: Something like geocities today but with less suck would be great to have. What I liked about it was that you could freely access an Apache directory listing if it didn't have a recognizable index page. Lycos' Tripod service also allowed this. It still exists, but they don't let you do that anymore. 0 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted October 26, 2009 There goes a piece of history. If I do recall, there is some guy downloading all Geocities or something....don't know the details on how or why he's doing this. 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted October 26, 2009 There was a push to buy the servers from yahoo! I dunno if that's gonna still go or not. It would be awesome idea if it does follow through. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nomad Posted October 26, 2009 Csonicgo said:Cheap? simple? I still can't afford it. Something like geocities today but with less suck would be great to have. Still, that's a lot of stuff to just die... It's like Yahoo! wants to die. http://www.000webhost.com/ I've used it, and I'm currently using their paid hosting. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted October 26, 2009 Hmm, what about other free sites? http://www.freevirtualservers.com/ http://www.000webhost.com/ http://www.apachelinuxhosting.com/ I haven't tried them myself... In any case, has Yahoo made any statements about existing GoeCities sites? Their closure notice says "New GeoCities accounts are no longer available". This does not deny that existing ones may still be kept working. EDIT:On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files. If you'd like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you've posted online, please act now by downloading your files or upgrading to Yahoo! Web Hosting. See details in the help center or upgrade to Web Hosting now for only $4.99 a month.So, yeah, it seems like they are going to nuke the existing content. Perhaps Yahoo should just die as a whole, once and for all, then. Most of the useful stuff on them was on old GeoCities sites, as far as I'm concerned. 0 Share this post Link to post
Coopersville Posted October 26, 2009 I'd better go and retrieve all my Jedi Knight screenshots, then. 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted October 26, 2009 I nabbed all my old stuff recently as well. There's a text file that had these words all the way from 2001 (I suppose): He makes 9000 crates That we never will use This is the Nick Baker! He steals 3 things from Ola And he blows a fuse This is the Nick Baker! He is from a different planet Nick Baker! Fin. funny how this uses the number 9000. I must have just picked a big number. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted October 26, 2009 sgtcrispy said: Toodles http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4704/hr.html At least, and not surprisingly, the HR site is mirrored on the Internet Archive. 0 Share this post Link to post
alexz721 Posted October 26, 2009 The crappiness of Geocities notwithstanding, there are a ton of files within those pages that are nowhere else to be found on the Internet, so it is a bit of a sad day. 0 Share this post Link to post
CODOR Posted October 26, 2009 alexz721 said: The crappiness of Geocities notwithstanding, there are a ton of files within those pages that are nowhere else to be found on the Internet, so it is a bit of a sad day.I just know that in the next couple of days I'll be looking for something on the Internet, then discover that it was on a Geocities page and an archived copy of it is nowhere to be found... 0 Share this post Link to post