Yahoo! officially kills Geocities

[Fittisize]

Or "Geoshitties" as it was often called. I thought this died out long ago. In the Facebook and Blog and Twitter age, I'm not sure I even know anybody with a personal website anymore.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yah...geocities/

For a little nostalgia, here's a quintessentially late-90's Geocities webpage I found a few months ago: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/4076/. I sure do miss "About Me" pages and guest books. :(

[alien space marine]

I remember making several personal websites, Then soon abandoning my creations to the proverbial dusty attic of cyberspace As who the fuck would see them anyway?

Although learning HTML was nice, My hobbie actually helped me later on in high school. I remember even acquiring a secret code script that disabled Geocities "pop up ads", As I used the small free account.

I actually used geocities more often to load up images onto the web to post onto forums like here.

[A Black Falcon]

That's too bad... :(

... I'll need somewhere else to put that website of mine nobody goes to (for good reason) that I link in my sig... it's on Geocities.

[DMiller]

I'm definitely looking forward to Warcraft III. The trailer looked great, and I can't wait to see some in-game shots.

[A Black Falcon]

I am too, doesn't that CG trailer look amazing? :)

(I definitely like the Starcraft font title I've got there... :))

... I've added a few things to that site here and there, as the 'news' section lists, but never redesigned it or removed any of the old stuff since creating it as a 12th grade project in early 2001.

Its list of my games was made outdated once I started using the IGN one, but I have updated it a few times anyway, though not in a while now I think... the four columns on the right are very nice to have. On the other hand though, it takes so much longer to put together, and there's no easy way to, say, sort anything (being that they're just Netscape/Mozilla/Seamonkey Composer tables... and all the reviews there are on TC too, and Gamefaqs... and that links page is REALLY, REALLY outdated... but yeah, it's my site so I'll need to put it somewhere once Geocities closes. It's too bad it is, it was really convenient, since I had Yahoo email so I got the site for free with that...

I can understand why they're shutting it down though, the thing's pretty outdated. I mean, they're up to an amazing 15MB of storage space now, and you have strict bandwidth limits. That's not much in today's internet, and that's a lot more than I had when I first created that page I'm sure. These services just aren't used too much anymore... I guess people use Myspace or whatever instead of their own webpage. :(

[Geno]

My first website ever was on Geocities. It was the shit back in the late 90's. Once we got into the new millennium, it just kinda faded into obscurity. Nobody uses it anymore.

Remember the days of BeSeen counters and chat rooms, InsideTheWeb messageboards, and GuestGear guestbooks? Yeah, those sucked, but they seemed awesome back then. Also, sites tended to be crammed with animated GIFs, picture backgrounds, rainbow-colored scrolling text, and other crap that served no purpose other than to try and show off one's HTML prowess. Those were the days when everyone on the World Wide Web was a n00b. :)