I still remember my geocities website, it was also my first website btw.
Kate
· 7 months ago
1997 was the year a 14-year-old girl could go online for the first time, learn HTML, and create one one of the largest and most popular Beatles fan pages on the net...all thanks to Geocities.
Goodbye, old friend! I'll miss your animated GIFs, your guestbook comments, the time when everyone had their own flashy homepage instead of a standardized profile...
Stuart Foster
· 7 months ago
They were still around? I thought they had died back in the Dot Com bust. Guess that isn't a great pr model, hehe.
Anand
· 7 months ago
Hey., I have not visited my geocities site (the first one that had got me close to anything Internet) in more than half a decade, but this one is still hard to sink..Is there anyway I can backup my website?
Btw, I dont want to spam, but just wanted to proudly display my first ever website here :)
The big players--and competitors--were Geocities and Angelfire. I tinkered with both, but preferred Geocities. I posted to Friendfeed earlier today a link to an archived site of mine from January 1999. Have a click: http://beta.friendfeed.com/ariherzog/fe192c57/y...
Jon
· 7 months ago
The first site I ever made was on Geocities too. It was in forrestvines and was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fansite called Realm of a Slayer. It had a purple velvet background and stupid gothic horizontal rules. And of course animated gifs.
I remember I was so proud when I made an imagemap for my navigation. But I didnt actually know how to do them so I just painted over the one at Lycos.com in MS Paint.
UnsatisfiedMind
· 7 months ago
I remember my first GeoCities page too, it lived in TheTropics. Geocities has probably long outlived its usefulness, but it's still sad to see one of the web's true originals calling it a career.
rloughery
· 7 months ago
Any suggestions for how to migrate (hopefully Yahoo will give help)
Adam Ostrow
· 7 months ago
the FAQ says they'll provide details on migration soon
Jbeaber
· 5 months ago
I have already moved... just went into my file manager copied all the code an put it on word and saved it... I then found a new free host and pasted all the code into its file manager ... Walla... I am up and runnig again. I the wrote a message in my old Geocities site saying I had moved. Here are the links to my old and new site. http://www.geocities.com/ithascome/http://ithascome.bravehost.com/ Bravehost is much better than Geocities anyway... my site is never shutdown because of too much bandwidth.
midorie
· 7 months ago
I find this on Dreamhost blog: they note that u could get 2 year free hosting, but note: u need 2 do one thing, but u can read more about it on their blog. Also as always, yup the catch would be having a domain 4 the 2nd yr...http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/24/theyre-internet-history/ Another option would be: Dreamhosters, under the same umbrella, by Dreamhost, https://panel.dreamhostapps.com/manage, you that 1 is for free now 2 check out but that 1 is pretty limited. There r others 2, but thus far, Dreamhost is fine 4 what typical ppl needs. Good luck!
Sheryl
· 7 months ago
I remember Geocities vividly. I had a personal page devoted my personal interests (including one that spoke of the voice of my dog in the pets section), and then later, a page devoted to the movie Titanic!
It was a purple "watery-looking" page with a repeating background of the movie poster. It had flashing headlines in big, bold Times New Roman font, horizontal rules, and blinking "Under Construction" signs. And then when I got rollovers to work...damn...it was a revolutionary!
Forrester
· 7 months ago
If I had known GeoCities was still around, I would have signed up! It would have been an easy way to create a new site and have people immediately assume it was around for 15 years.
John Boyle
· 7 months ago
Geocities really was a benchmark Web 1.0 site. I remember scanning search results and refusing to click on the Geocities sites because, in general, they were so bad.
And now I recall them fondly. Ah, how time flies.
Debbie C
· 7 months ago
I just resurrected mine and boy are you right. omg..they were so rudimentary they were horrible! I just took every picture out of the file manager and saved them somewhere..stuff I even forgot I freakin' had!
Lorri
· 7 months ago
How did you resurrect your Geocities site ?
Hercules K
· 7 months ago
good thing i already have accounts :) now, if i can only remember that password...
Carol
· 7 months ago
I had to laugh, because I've had a site there many years, has a lot of pages, I especially enjoy the guestbook. Now I too need to remember the password.
Wise guy. I see you have a facebook photo. What do you think their business model is? Or myspace? Or twitter? Or a hundred other companies.
seamus
· 7 months ago
I just checked -- my Angelfire page is still live, 10 years later.
Saurabh
· 7 months ago
RIP. I remember the days when I would upload 5 files at a time to my GeoCities account (either at that time they did not have FTP or I didn't know to use it)
Really nostalgic :)
tapps
· 7 months ago
wow.. i had 3.. no wait.. 4 different geocities pages back in the day...
those were the days. oh. and it looks as if angelfire is still around. quick! go sign up! :-P
Chris
· 7 months ago
Yeah, I remember my geocities address. It was a work of art I made in Netscape one night in the summer of 1997. You had to pick your neighborhood as some sort of classification system, and it demanded proper capitalization in the url.
After Yahoo! bought Geocities, my work of genius was gone, unfortunately.
my page was dedicated to the Atlanta Braves, complete with animate gif of the tomahawk chop, lol
pixelbud
· 7 months ago
I remember pre-ad supported Geocities. Then when they added the floating "g" watermark everyone got upset. And then once they called down from that then ads were added as well. Now the Internet seems odd *without* ads.
Angelfire was a big player too. I remember people were passing around "codes" ( if memory serves me right CSS ) that would disable the adbar at the top.
Wow...the web sure has changed in the last 10 years.
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Name
· 3 months ago
I remember those codes. but if they caught you using them, they would ban your account... ah the good old days!
Ahmad
· 7 months ago
:(
Really i'm sad to hear that..
i build my first page on it :(
Jack
· 7 months ago
kinda makes you wonder if Twitter is worth $1 billion dollars for a bunch of eyeballs... RIP Geocities...
I worked at GeoCities for a year (mid-1996 to mid-1997). Headed up content and community in the early early early days. Ran the GeoCities Community Leader program. All of which makes me either a pioneer or a dinosaur....
Brad B
· 7 months ago
I was a Community Leader around that time in SiliconValley. I was pretty excited to be apart of that program. Gave me something important to do during my teens.
RJBailey2008
· 7 months ago
One less option for those too poor/cheap to buy web hosting. ^_^ And yes, I also had a GC site.
Kevin Brennan
· 7 months ago
I was more of an Angelfire guy than a Geocities.
Thanks for the story.
Jeremy Steele
· 7 months ago
Aw dang - first somewhat real site I had was on geocities back in the day (when I was like 9... hah). Sad to see it go.
Add
· 7 months ago
This is a foreshadow of what is to come. Look ahead a few years and you'll be reading the same article in reference to Facebook and MySpace. What is old is new again...
Rip Collins
· 7 months ago
My favorite GeoCities memory is all of the annoying popup ads! Good riddance!!
Anderson
· 7 months ago
Twitter is the new Geocities, but it will probably stay popular for at least 3 more years. But will definitely not last as much as Geocities.
Adena DeMonte
· 7 months ago
Geocities was where I honed my HTML skills. Before WSIWYG, I had "type in the HTML, hit preview, realize it was all f'd up, try again." Boy, those were the days. Even though I haven't updated my geocities page in years (http://www.geocities.com/foxfire_83) it will always be where I learned that I was love with the web. It will be missed. :(
Stephen Peters
· 7 months ago
Our old Geocities account disappeared a few years back as well. We had real estate in the tony "Soho" neighborhood, before they expanded it with the less desirable "Soho Lofts." RIP, GeoCities!
shezcrafti
· 7 months ago
Geocities was host to my first website, an awesomely bad HTML student project, circa 1994. I think it was a site about X-MEN, lol. Terribad design and animated GIFs galore.
David West
· 7 months ago
Ah, the old Geocities. Yes, like others posting here, my first personal homepage was with geocities. And, like others here, it was inundated with animated gifs.
Most of my pages have just been revised using other systems like Joomla. Geocities wasn't really as much of a social network, though, as one of the first content management systems. That's what I will remember it more for, versus the social network aspect of the site.
charles roring
· 7 months ago
I still have some websites on Geocities running. I will loose all the files there if Yahoo shut it down.
Ian
· 7 months ago
My GeoCities site disappeared a long time ago. When Yahoo bought GeoCities so many sites disappeared. For me GeoCities died when my site and all my friends sites died. Big mistake for Yahoo though, but I think the mistake was made back then.
Jonathan
· 7 months ago
I remember Geocities - I had an account too - and posted all manner of rubbish into it.. lol - I seem to remember it being one of the first places I ever monkeyed with HTML.
Adam Ostrow
· 7 months ago
indeed, Yahoo ruined Geocities incredibly quickly. The first of many blunders they made in social networking.
Dawn
· 7 months ago
Oh finally! I loved my Geocities site at the time, but I've long since forgotten my password and those are some traces of my life that I would really enjoy *not* having on the interwebs anymore.
Sarah Fowler
· 7 months ago
In middle/high school of course I had a GeoCities page! I even wrote a blog there until the rise of LiveJournal made posting so much easier. Mine disappeared somewhere around there, too; I went looking for it a while later and it was nowhere to be found. The end of GeoCities is definitely nostalgic; that's where I first learned all the HTML I know (I designed the page from scratch)!
Pete Williams
· 7 months ago
Awww man! I hosted some of my very first websites there 15 years ago! They were god-awful beyond belief but it's not the point!
So come on then, those of us old enough to have had GeoCities websites, who will be brave enough to show your sins??
Frames, midi files autoplaying, animated GIFs, pop-ups, scrolling text, gaudy backgrounds, it had it all!
Seriously, can anyone claim a worst GeoCities site than that?
Pete
Sean
· 3 months ago
ha,ha, ha awesome! I forgot about midi files. those where the days!
Chris Moncus
· 7 months ago
Man. I got my start in web development uploading to those servers. My whole 2MB of space taught me to optimize my code and images. I used it when there was only a hand-coding interface. I usually had that open and www.quadzilla.com there for reference while chatting on ICQ.
Hinano
· 7 months ago
Aw man! My first ever webpage was on there! I think it was about South Park! I also learned from their page builder about how to use HTML! So nostalgic, you will be missed Geocities =(
macgeek61
· 7 months ago
I just went to the site and tried to remember my password it's been so long. I just can't believe how lame those sites were, but it was all we ever knew at the time. Mine is dated back to around 10 years ago i am guessing by the ages of the pics in the File Manager. Between Angel Fire and Hometown for AOL, those were basically the only games in town. Now I'm using iWeb, Baby!
Jason Beaird
· 7 months ago
Sad news. I too remember the address of my old GeoCities page in "SunsetStrip" that no longer exists. I don't remember if I hosted my first webpage (about Soapshoes) on Geocities, Angelfire or Xoom...but I do remember that my Xoom account was deleted because I posted an MP3 on it that I had downloaded from Napster. :) I was SO pissed.
Brian
· 7 months ago
As with others, I didn't know geocities was still around. I thought they probably merged into some other Yahoo offering. geocities = the myspace of free webhosting. Free, Hideous looking websites built by the masses.
I'm astounded at the amount of nostalgia the Geocities announcement has brought to the surface. I guess lots of people had their start there!
We've often called Jimdo "Geocities 2.0" -- and we're working on a way to help all the Geocities users move their sites over easily. We're keeping people posted here:
That was me, not sure why Facebook Connect didn't show my name or photo.
Former GeoCities Employee
· 7 months ago
This is a sad day. GeoCities was a special service and a special company. When Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999, the employees thought that they would supercharge the company. Instead, Yahoo immediately shut down the entire company, took a few engineers up to San Jose, stripped off everything but basic hosting, and milked the page views for as long as they could. I can't complain, because I sold my Yahoo stock at the near-high and bought my house. But, I think what happened with GeoCities shows what has been wrong with Yahoo for a long time.
Adam Ostrow
· 7 months ago
indeed, and the same holds true today ... looks at what they've done with JumpCut, Del.icio.us, Blo.gs, and to an extent, Flickr
Rachel
· 7 months ago
EnchantedForest/Dell (I think?)/2667, baby. Of course no longer there. I was, like, 13 when they added the watermark that scrolled along with the page, and in a fit of young, idealistic protest, I moved everything to some other host, anyway.
Coreytess
· 7 months ago
I had a couple of bungalows in the Hollywood section! Great little sites I built - one dedicated to Bruntette Starlets and one dedicated to Myself! ha ha :) Awww.. dont remember what happened to them... Geocities is like playing Pac Man.. you dont... but you want the option....
webjay
· 7 months ago
Sad. My first website and The Mafia Page was there. I was on /SiliconValley/1424
Your Name*
· 7 months ago
My first web site was with geocities. I built it on my work computer because I didn't have a home computer at the time. I'm fond of telling people that I had a web site before I owned a computer and it's all thanks to GeoCities.
RIP Geocities
Haro
· 7 months ago
I still cant get it how my site on geocities is still on after 10 years. I didnt change my password when yahoo bought geocities that summer and after that i couldnt change anything on page.. funny but great..it is like time stopped :)
one another site was turned off by yahoo..when it changed terms..
Mark Heller
· 7 months ago
It is too bad that Geocities is shutting down, Yahoo should of incorporated a local city search play into it. It is the perfect URL for a local search interface.
Dennis
· 7 months ago
Goodbye blogspot...
Jason Barone
· 7 months ago
That's amazing, I remember I registered immediately for a free hosting account when it came available. Then it was the war between Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire for how much server space they offered users. Wasn't it something like 5mb when it first came up?
Your Name*qwd
· 7 months ago
dwd
okinawa
· 7 months ago
Ah yes, before there were mind numbing, ugly MySpace pages...there were mind numbing ugly Geocities pages.....
Zuzz
· 7 months ago
Oh no... The Heat Miser fan page will be no more!
Alverez the MostCold
· 7 months ago
wow.... i remember Geocties... my first site was CollegePark/Quad/4973 ... I think.. lol. The X-Large Homepage. we all...along w/ the web... have come a long way.. RIP Geocities.
Neal G
· 7 months ago
Why dosn't Yahoo! sell Geocities to somebody else, heck perhaps Microsoft could buy them and drive them further into the ground. At least Yahoo could recoup some of that 3 billion.
Adam Ostrow
· 7 months ago
thats a good question ... the traffic is still worth something, to someone. News Corp perhaps?
FlossieT
· 7 months ago
Another sad day indeed :-( I definitely set up a GeoCities page somewhere (remember 'strolling' through those clunky bad-3D streets trying to decide where I fitted) but have no idea what it was called, and it's tied to one of only two email addresses I own that have ever died (my usa.net one, ah the similarly sad day when one had to start paying for *that*... the only public service I ever had a first-name email address on) so I probably can't resurrect it. RIP.
I'm off to look for installs of Mosaic that you can run on Mac OS X. I may be gone some time.
jdorfman
· 7 months ago
I built my first website on GeoCities back in 98. RIP
Him
· 7 months ago
I just got hit with a brick. A brick made out of fluffy, warm, dusty, cloudy, sweet-smelling nostalgia. wow. I used to pass through these sites all the time. I was a dbz nerd and I absolutely loved searching gifs. I never really knew what geocities exactly was, but I remember seeing those and angelfire pages ALOT when I was young. Those sites were a sizable part of my internet childhood. Damn.
kim
· 7 months ago
Ah- geocities was my first web page - with cat pictures and all. I loaded it up with pictures and shared it far and wide. I loved having my own ridiculously long URL that was on 'madison ave'. At the time, I was in advertising so it was so cool. Thanks for this geocities trip down memory lane.
Naskar
· 7 months ago
I remember the different 'areas' of the website. There was one called Enchanted Forest or something like that. Ah, this brings back memories.
Dan
· 7 months ago
Man $4.5 Billion down the drain - remember those days?
To all my peeps in the "TimesSquare" and "Couldron" neighborhood. :)
Oh, how the web has changed.
mark@free xbox 360
· 7 months ago
There goes a lot of it's members that loved the site.
jeremy
· 7 months ago
Oh man, I totally remember building my Geocities pages, but that was 10 years ago! I remember the builder being frustrating.
cahayasura
· 7 months ago
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rojiun...
tshein
· 7 months ago
I started dabbling on the web in fall of 1996 when I found out about Netscape's source option. It was an ecstatic night when I published my first html file to Geocities and saw it display on the web (didn't sleep that night at all - tweaking until the morning hours). Later added those animated gifs, badges galore, crazy frames, and MIDI auto-play music. Horrid.
Geocities worked well for me because it used the neighborhood paradigm, which was easy to relate to. I chose an address somewhere in the "Tokyo" area since my interests were in anime, JPOP, and cyberpunk (Gibson was big then, as were thrillers like Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man). All was lost when they converted to the shorter URLs. Could never find out where my content went. Good memories though.
Dara
· 7 months ago
My very first web page was at Geocities! too bad it is shutting down!
brian
· 7 months ago
Oh man, I did so many awful web sites on Geocities back in the day. Part of me is relieved it's going away—just in case any of those sites are still floating around out there. (ren and stimpy font. UGH!)
The other part of me is a little sad that it's going away though. It was really where I discovered what I wanted to do with my life. At a time when I didn't have a freakin' clue how to set up a website, Geocities provided an easy way to do that.
Here's to you Geo. RIP.
Avil Beckford
· 7 months ago
Talk about nostalgia! Over 10 years ago (could even be 12) while my brother was working on his Bachelor's degree, he took a course to build websites and since I had a business he built me my first website and it was a geocities website. Remember those days with those long URL? It's sad that geocities is closing down. http://www.twitter.com/avilbeckford
chris
· 7 months ago
when GeoCities goes, epilepsy will not be the problem it is now ;-p
Estella
· 7 months ago
I remember hunting through the neighbourhoods for a "good number", and the web page competitions they had back then! Web sites were 2MB, and if you win a competition they upgrade yo uto 5MB and you're so happy. Nowadays even one photo can be 5MB in file size. Wow...
ar_hoi
· 7 months ago
My first homepage (v1.0) back in 1998 was also in Geocities, Tokyo/Island. It was written in plain html at first and later in v2.0 I started to be quite good at Dreamweaver 2. To maintain a homepage was not something that everybody could manage coz it took patience and time to at least learn some html, unlike how it is nowadays- everybody can easily have a blogger/ facebook/ xanga... page, you name it... My v2.0 homepage in Tokyo Island was still my personal favourite, I accidently overwrote it, didn't have the time to rebuild...
Redsoxmaniac
· 7 months ago
Every time I think of Geocities, I just think of the days of image pattern backgrounds ( that Myspace brought back into the 21st century ) and spinning globe gifs. Oh, the 90's.
A Former CL
· 7 months ago
GeoCities was certainly "the place to be" back in the days. It was the place where I learned web design through trial and error, those days when creating web site was actually about writing HTML codes. Where putting up a web page of your own (however simple) was something you can really be proud of. It was before the Twitter/Facebook/Myspace/Whatever generation. Before the blogs (you can find many personal diaries on GeoCities, before blogging became a phenomenon). A time when if you wanted to write about what you had for lunch actually meant you had to learn how to code. A time when 6MB of space was a luxury you'd jump up and down in joy about
What made it unique was the concept of cities and neighborhoods - long URLs, yes - but it also made the homesteaders felt they belong to a community
My web site was of course, like most others, filled with flashy animated GIFs, horizontal rules and then graduated to image maps for navigation and finally CSS 1.0! And yes, anyone remember those CLs? I was a community leader in SiliconValley, and I really did enjoyed helping new "homesteaders" find they way around GeoCities. Helped beta test their WYSIWYG editor too - codenamed "hummingbird" :-D
Stopped using GeoCities after Y! bought them
Here's a tribute to you, GeoCities! (standing ovation)
Bianca
· 7 months ago
I had a site on geocities about sailormoon =D With lots of animated gifs of course! And later i had one for portfolio. Both were pretty awful!
miberry
· 7 months ago
Amazed that Geocities still alive.
ToxicB
· 6 months ago
I found out about the closing accidentally but I am overjoyed! Before you attack me, here's why: in 1999 I paid ($5usd a month) to have an ad-free site on Geocities, where I put some of my creative writing. In 2000 something happened in my personal life that made me want to delete the site, but this was right after Yahoo bought them out and I wasn't able to log in any more. Their "help" was absolutely no help at all, and my requests to have my site deleted were ignored (for a while they were sending me annual "you haven't logged in for X months, we are going to delete your site" emails, but it was never actualy deleted). Meantimes they continued to charge me every month, for over two years. So now all of it is going away, and I am so happy. (I realise others are not happy, and I am sympathetic to their issues.)
Andrei
· 5 months ago
Now, what am I supposed to do with my website? http://www.geocities.com/verymad_scientist/ It still earns me some Google Ads income. Someone suggested url redirects would help.
Sheila Bay
· 4 months ago
www.200gigs.com works for me as a replacement for Geocities. I signed up with Geocities in 1994 and I was always so proud that I coded my site in HTML with Notepad. Back then it seemed only university students and other true nerds had their own website. Now all you need to do is point and click and you too can be on Facebook (wow.) You can't find me on Facebook, but you can find me on Google, and I'm proud of that too.
thelostagency
· 4 months ago
There was so many strange things that have been done with GeoCities in the past such as spam, and hundreds of seo agencies who still depend on these authority/trusted back links to rank client websites...
My friends found out early that it was possible to use Geocities as a source/reference for reports and make up statistics/figures and get good marks for assignments, how easy things were back then.
buknoy
· 4 months ago
:-( still remember those days, it was cool then .. this things happends and if guys can remember the IRC chat hahahaha those days ...
Sean
· 3 months ago
I remember Geocities being my HTML playground. Wow, back then animated gif's were cool and so were midi files playing really crappy music. I really miss those days. How far we have come I'm on my 3rd host now. I said good bye to Geocites a long time ago. Now residing at www.seanpyke.org. Peace Homesteaders!
Sean
· 3 months ago
I remember Geocities being my HTML playground. Wow, back then animated gif's were cool and so were midi files playing really crappy music. I really miss those days. How far we have come I'm on my 3rd host now. I said good bye to Geocites a long time ago. Now residing at www.seanpyke.org. Peace Homesteaders!
All Comments
Goodbye, old friend! I'll miss your animated GIFs, your guestbook comments, the time when everyone had their own flashy homepage instead of a standardized profile...
Btw, I dont want to spam, but just wanted to proudly display my first ever website here :)
http://anand-s.co.nr/
I remember I was so proud when I made an imagemap for my navigation. But I didnt actually know how to do them so I just painted over the one at Lycos.com in MS Paint.
Another option would be: Dreamhosters, under the same umbrella, by Dreamhost, https://panel.dreamhostapps.com/manage, you that 1 is for free now 2 check out but that 1 is pretty limited. There r others 2, but thus far, Dreamhost is fine 4 what typical ppl needs. Good luck!
It was a purple "watery-looking" page with a repeating background of the movie poster. It had flashing headlines in big, bold Times New Roman font, horizontal rules, and blinking "Under Construction" signs. And then when I got rollovers to work...damn...it was a revolutionary!
And now I recall them fondly. Ah, how time flies.
The business model was broken, plain and simple!
I remember the days when I would upload 5 files at a time to my GeoCities account (either at that time they did not have FTP or I didn't know to use it)
Really nostalgic :)
those were the days. oh. and it looks as if angelfire is still around. quick! go sign up! :-P
After Yahoo! bought Geocities, my work of genius was gone, unfortunately.
RIP, http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Boardwalk/9190
Angelfire was a big player too. I remember people were passing around "codes" ( if memory serves me right CSS ) that would disable the adbar at the top.
Wow...the web sure has changed in the last 10 years.
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Really i'm sad to hear that..
i build my first page on it :(
http://weareorganizedchaos.com/index.php/2009/0...
Thanks for the story.
What is old is new again...
I think it was a site about X-MEN, lol. Terribad design and animated GIFs galore.
Most of my pages have just been revised using other systems like Joomla. Geocities wasn't really as much of a social network, though, as one of the first content management systems. That's what I will remember it more for, versus the social network aspect of the site.
So come on then, those of us old enough to have had GeoCities websites, who will be brave enough to show your sins??
I'll start with one I cam still find - started in about 1994, abandoned a few years later: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/4455/
Frames, midi files autoplaying, animated GIFs, pop-ups, scrolling text, gaudy backgrounds, it had it all!
Seriously, can anyone claim a worst GeoCities site than that?
Pete
Between Angel Fire and Hometown for AOL, those were basically the only games in town.
Now I'm using iWeb, Baby!
We've often called Jimdo "Geocities 2.0" -- and we're working on a way to help all the Geocities users move their sites over easily. We're keeping people posted here:
http://jimdo.com/geocities
It's the Jimdo Lifeboat :)
I was on /SiliconValley/1424
RIP Geocities
redirecting link http://move.to/sergio also still working :D
the longer one http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/Outlet/1925/ :)
one another site was turned off by yahoo..when it changed terms..
I'm off to look for installs of Mosaic that you can run on Mac OS X. I may be gone some time.
http://thedigitalists.com/2009/04/24/flashback-...
RIP http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Cauldron/2...
To all my peeps in the "TimesSquare" and "Couldron" neighborhood. :)
Oh, how the web has changed.
I remember the builder being frustrating.
Geocities worked well for me because it used the neighborhood paradigm, which was easy to relate to. I chose an address somewhere in the "Tokyo" area since my interests were in anime, JPOP, and cyberpunk (Gibson was big then, as were thrillers like Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man). All was lost when they converted to the shorter URLs. Could never find out where my content went. Good memories though.
The other part of me is a little sad that it's going away though. It was really where I discovered what I wanted to do with my life. At a time when I didn't have a freakin' clue how to set up a website, Geocities provided an easy way to do that.
Here's to you Geo. RIP.
What made it unique was the concept of cities and neighborhoods - long URLs, yes - but it also made the homesteaders felt they belong to a community
My web site was of course, like most others, filled with flashy animated GIFs, horizontal rules and then graduated to image maps for navigation and finally CSS 1.0! And yes, anyone remember those CLs? I was a community leader in SiliconValley, and I really did enjoyed helping new "homesteaders" find they way around GeoCities. Helped beta test their WYSIWYG editor too - codenamed "hummingbird" :-D
Stopped using GeoCities after Y! bought them
Here's a tribute to you, GeoCities! (standing ovation)
My friends found out early that it was possible to use Geocities as a source/reference for reports and make up statistics/figures and get good marks for assignments, how easy things were back then.