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Posted at: 10/26/09 06:31 AM
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Title self-explanatory, GeoCities is closing down today...forever.
Today is the day when we say goodbye forever to GeoCities after 15 long years. GeoCities first opened in 1994 and it was an instant hit. This service did more for the web than almost all other Internet services ever designed, and it played a major role in the web's popularity. Many believe that the Internet wouldn't have become so popular if it weren't for GeoCities.
What do you guys think of this? Honestly, I think the website's explanation of GeoCities' popularity + use is a bit out of whack -- I very rarely ever came in contact with it. How about you?
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Posted at: 10/26/09 06:38 AM
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Posted at: 10/26/09 06:41 AM
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I never heard of Geocities. lol
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Posted at: 10/26/09 07:22 AM
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Yahoo had to buy it why????????????
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Posted at: 10/26/09 09:36 AM
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At 10/26/09 07:22 AM, data662 wrote: Yahoo had to buy it why????????????
Yahoo already owned it from the beginning.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 09:37 AM
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At 10/26/09 06:41 AM, ratchet103 wrote: I never heard of Geocities. lol
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Of course you haven't.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 09:41 AM
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The end of an era.
The only reason I was going to be sad for Geocities is because the best fanfiction I've ever read is hosted there. Thankfully though the writer has a Geocities Plus account so her site won't disappear.
RIP Geocities.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 09:43 AM
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Posted at: 10/26/09 09:45 AM
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I couldn't care less about GeoCities, to be honest. I've never come into contact with a Geocities website, so they don't concern me in the slightest. Plus, Yahoo is making another service, just like it, so nobody serious about making a website is losing out.
Still, it might come as a shock for anyone with a GeoCities site when it disappears.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 09:52 AM
At 10/26/09 09:43 AM, Jezuz wrote: I've been using the internet since damn near it's conception due to poor parenting and an over abundance of money, and I still only have a very vague idea of what GeoCities is. Mostly because I'm a google boy that avoids Yahoo! like the plague.
Unless your Userpage lies, you weren't even close to be born when Internet was invented, lol.
Posted at: 10/26/09 11:31 AM
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At 10/26/09 09:43 AM, citricsquid wrote: http://xkcd.com
:D Love it.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 12:08 PM
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At 10/26/09 10:09 AM, Jezuz wrote: At 10/26/09 09:52 AM, FBIpolux wrote: Unless your Userpage lies, you weren't even close to be born when Internet was invented, lol.Oh please, haha. You know I meant for civilian use and non-research ventures. The internet now compared to pre-1994 is a very different beast.
At 10/26/09 09:52 AM, FBIpolux wrote:
Yeah, 1994 was when geocities changed the web. 4 years before the first google boy.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 12:23 PM
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I made my first website on geocites, even though I forgot where the webpage is.
Man, I really feel old :P
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Posted at: 10/26/09 01:40 PM
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Fuck, you beat me to it.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 01:51 PM
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It appears that the South Park fan-site I made when I was 11 by ripping images off other websites will now be lost forever.
My one great accomplishment shall return from whence it came. :(
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Posted at: 10/26/09 01:53 PM
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I remember when anyone who was anyone had a geocities site. Those days sucked.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 01:56 PM
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At 10/26/09 09:45 AM, YeOldeSierra wrote: I couldn't care less about GeoCities, to be honest. I've never come into contact with a Geocities website, so they don't concern me in the slightest. Plus, Yahoo is making another service, just like it, so nobody serious about making a website is losing out.
Seriously, most people either have myspace,twitter, facebook, freewebs anyway. so might as well save some bandwidth by getting rid of an ancient artifcate.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 02:00 PM
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Well this sucks, I loved Geocity sites. They were my access to everything Pokemon and Dragonball Z when I was a child.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 03:07 PM
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I've been using the internet since damn near it's conception due to poor parenting and an over abundance of money, and I still only have a very vague idea of what GeoCities is. Mostly because I'm a google boy that avoids Yahoo! like the plague.
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Posted at: 10/26/09 03:31 PM
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I remember creating my first website on geocities back in the day.
Sad to see it closing down.
Posted at: 10/26/09 03:33 PM
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Oh my god. Now where will I go to find heavily outdated websites about obscure shit that nobody cares about. Seriously though, has anyone actually used Geocities in the past 5 years?
Posted at: 10/26/09 03:34 PM
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Fuckkkk man
always sad to see something like that go. Geocities was huge on the internet since the beginning, i've been by extension using those websites for 15 years. Wish 'em all well, they did the world good
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Posted at: 10/26/09 03:37 PM
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Posted at: 10/26/09 07:44 PM
At 10/26/09 03:33 PM, RoboJesus wrote: Oh my god. Now where will I go to find heavily outdated websites about obscure shit that nobody cares about. Seriously though, has anyone actually used Geocities in the past 5 years?
Go fuck yourself. To some people, this is major. Imagine if you were Tom and you were losing Newgrounds. Would you like to see all that work disappear?
Posted at: 10/26/09 08:28 PM
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Haha, xkcd actually didn't have an own site but made it at Geocities? Never noticed it! Hahaha... I love the beautiful webpage!
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Posted at: 10/26/09 08:29 PM
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This is relevant.
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Damn I remember when people were all psyched about that place. Boy times sure does fly. The next thing will be newgrounds and google teaming together. Then youtube, google, newgrounds would own the entire net.
Posted at: 10/26/09 08:31 PM
At 10/26/09 08:29 PM, Ryuzaki1 wrote: www.xkcd.com This is relevant.
Note to self: read posts.
Posted at: 10/26/09 08:41 PM
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Nooo where else will I go to get all the latest news and gossip circa 1996, stunning-quality midi files, and low-resolution-poorly animated gif files with 4 frames in them?
Posted at: 10/26/09 09:05 PM
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man the world is changing fast now.
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