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GeoCities is shutting down.

DaikunDaikun
edited April 2009 in Technology
The server for hosting amateurish, hideous-looking websites for people too lazy to hand out $10 for a cheap domain is finally meeting its demise.

Rest in peace, you ugly thing.
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  • FunfetusFunfetus
    Good to hear. That means the atrocious personal website I made in '97 will finally be gone forever.
  • fluxflux
    My childhood memories :(
  • chaosof99chaosof99
    Good Riddance to bad rubbish. I guess it has been murdered by MySpace which pretty much has the same amount of quality.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Good to hear. That means the atrocious personal website I made in '97 will finally be gone forever.
    Not if the wayback machine has anything to do with it.
  • AprecheApreche
    My page is long gone, but Rym's is there until they shut it. I'll check my floppy disks to see if I can find a copy.
  • FunfetusFunfetus
    Good Riddance to bad rubbish. I guess it has been murdered by MySpace which pretty much has the same amount of quality.
    Interesting point, though. Myspace/Facebook/etc. fulfills 99% of what geocities/angelfire/etc. were used for. Namely, "Look at me!"
  • MrRobotoMrRoboto
    A friend worked for Yahoo/Geocities Customer Service, he told me (2 years ago) that it had basically turned into a host for spam, illegal downloads and child porn, they had to shut down hundreds of pages a day.
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    I used to have a page at geocities.com/aegean/athens/4644/something. That was back in 1996.

    Then you didn't need all the forward lsashes, and could just go geocities.com/lukeburrage. That has a link saying "Now can be found here" pointing to angelfire.com/mb/lukeburrage which has a sign saying "Now can be found here" pointing to thingonthe.net, a domain I let lapse back in 2003. It's like real archeology!
  • RailithRailith
    Where will all the rotating flaming skull gifs go?
  • VigaViga
    I had a few pages in the 90's. I last one I remember was an As Told By Ginger fansite in 2000.
  • IrascibleIrascible
    Good riddance to bad fansites, now if only angelfire would go the same way
  • Dred LilyDred Lily
    Hm..I have a hunch that most of these sites would still be on archive.org for a while after the final curtain draws to a close. Would I be correct in this assumption?
  • NeitoNeito
    Hm..I have a hunch that most of these sites would still be on archive.org for a while after the final curtain draws to a close. Would I be correct in this assumption?
    Probably.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    I wonder if mine is till there...nope.

    I still got my old lycos.co.uk account though.
  • RymRym
    but Rym's is there until they shut it.
    My original site isn't. MephisTopheles Realm, with its animated fire and dragon counter applet (not to mention the translated Final Fantasy V ROM, hosted on my Angelfire account), was deleted a long time ago, before I even left for RIT.
  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    Oh good, all remnants of my InuYasha fansite will be gone forever.
  • SailSail
    I never had one. Neopets was the Geocities of my generation.
  • Loganator456Loganator456
    I never had one. Neopets was the Geocities of my generation.
    Oh god, I had like 3 Neopets accounts.
  • ChurbaChurba
    edited April 2009
    I never had one. Neopets was the Geocities of my generation.
    Oh god, I had like 3 Neopets accounts.
    I only had the one, but they never close those things down.
    Post edited by Churba on
  • NeitoNeito
    Oh good, all remnants of my InuYasha fansite will be gone forever.
    I heard on SA that the Textfiles.com guy is going to archive all of GeoCities.
  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    I heard on SA that the Textfiles.com guy is going to archive all of GeoCities.
    I must kill this man.
  • NeitoNeito
    I heard on SA that the Textfiles.com guy is going to archive all of GeoCities.
    I must kill this man.
    I heard his talk at HOPE, and he is quite the awesome man.
  • FunfetusFunfetus
    and he is quite the awesome man.
    If for no other reason than this: He had this flaming-grim-reaper-y GIF on his site that was being hotlinked like crazy all over myspace. On like thousands of profiles. So he swapped it with goatse.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Oh good, all remnants of my InuYasha fansite will be gone forever.
    Yeah...I had one of those too...*runs off to dig up old archived bookmarks...* Must destroy past....
  • DaikunDaikun
    Where will all the rotating flaming skull gifs go?
    Photo Bucket?
  • ElJoe0ElJoe0
    edited April 2009
    I never had one. Neopets was the Geocities of my generation.
    Emo 13 year old + Neopets= Mega fail. However I did have a Crocodile Neopet, the pirate ones TAKE THAT (it took me 3 months of trying to get it :( )
    Post edited by ElJoe0 on
  • NuriNuri
    Apparently Dreamhost is offering 2 years of free hosting to the first 1000 Geocities members that switch over to them.
  • VigaViga
    I never had one. Neopets was the Geocities of my generation.
    Shit. I remember I was a junior in HS when that came around and everyone got addicted. I had four pets. They are probably dead.
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    I never had one. Neopets was the Geocities of my generation.
    Shit. I remember I was a junior in HS when that came around and everyone got addicted. I had four pets. They are probably dead.
    As I recall, they don't die; they just get really really hungry.
  • NeitoNeito
    NeoPets is one of those fads that I fortunately managed to avoid, along with custom emotes in MSN chat and having a GeoCities page.
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