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JoelJ
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 00:45
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GeoCities has been disconnected
Famous for scrolling/flashing/spinning text, "this site under construction" banners, and guestbooks.

xkcd has dedicated it's site to the death of a beloved service.

RIP GeoCities

Your mother has been erased by a mod because it's larger than 600x120
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demons breath
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 00:47
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Hahahaha I like the xkcd interpretation of your average Geocities page.

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xplosys
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 04:50
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I'm not sad. Does that make me a bad person?

Brian.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 04:56
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Funny, I thought geocities died off years ago

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demons breath
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 05:04
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You're heartless.

And no Phaelax it just went underground. cocooning itself in a protective shroud of blinking backgrounds, illegible text and stock icons, it burrowed away in a dank corner of the interweb, to live out the rest of it's days unmolested by vacuous pre-teens wishing to fill it's pages with "LOOK! PUPPIEZ! I MADE PICTURE!!" and Barbie icons.

Rest In Peace geocities. You will be missed. We'll always remember your custom cursors, badly copied code and colour schemes as designed by Ray Charles... ("Well if I can't read it, no-one can")

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 05:14
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GeoCities needed to die. Webs.com FOR THE WIN!

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Satchmo
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 05:17
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Quote: "Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.7 or better at 800x480"


LOL

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 13:38
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Amusingly, that's the screen resolution I first viewed it at.

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crispex
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Geocities was a good place for amateur web developers to have a place to play around, but it's not to be taken seriously. All Geocities sites are horrible, and have no sense of accomplishment or style. I would piss on the grave of Geocities if I wasn't so sure it would splash on the grave of actual good services that have died.

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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 22:05
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Geocities was web1.0 where I remember the internet being made up of lots of little fan sites and stuff like that. Now it's facebook this and youtube that and everyone comes to the same big sites.

Geocities pages were great hubs for useless stuff. No longer will their be a "star trek tng midi site" or similar!

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Jeku
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Posted: 27th Oct 2009 23:53 Edited at: 27th Oct 2009 23:53
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I'd love to know how much hard drive space is being recuperated after removing all those millions of pages. Should be interesting to see how the search engines handle removing millions of links, too


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lazerus
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google just died happy


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demons breath
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Quote: "Geocities was a good place for amateur web developers to have a place to play around, but it's not to be taken seriously. All Geocities sites are horrible, and have no sense of accomplishment or style. I would piss on the grave of Geocities if I wasn't so sure it would splash on the grave of actual good services that have died."


Now that's just harsh man. Part of Geocities' charm was it's determination to cause seizures in epileptics with every backdrop, it's users inability to understand just because it's sparkly doesn't mean it looks amazing, and it's dislike of any sort of style. It had it's own thing going and I respect it for that.

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crispex
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It's not so much Geocities, it was people who used it. Geocities allowed you to upload your own custom made pages, but many chose to use the site builder or templates instead. Then they go on public forums, announce their "sites". I don't mind people learning, but please, don't claim your site is the "best" or the "official" place for something unless you have some decent work to show for it.

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lazerus
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@demons breath

I love your sig, sorry that just had to be said.

As for geocities death, i think that alot of people are to see it die. It was in a sense spam, thier were a few jewels that justified its exsistance but mainly a kindergarden equivilent of web creation.


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demons breath
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 03:40
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Quote: ", thier[sic] were a few jewels that justified its exsistance but mainly a kindergarden equivilent of web creation."


That was in essence it's charm. It was supposed to be rubbish. People who made decent, helpful, legible sites using it were missing the entire point. If there's not a cursor with tinkerbell on it, it's not a true Geocities page.

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Mahoney
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 15:28
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Quote: "I love your sig, sorry that just had to be said. "


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I'm apparently a total n00b and have no idea what Geocities is. If I'm under 20, does that make it OK?

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Aertic
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 15:40
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Quote: "I'm apparently a total n00b and have no idea what Geocities is. If I'm under 20, does that make it OK?"

im 12 wat is this geocities
^_^

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demons breath
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 18:46
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Geocities was a website where you could get your own free page. It had sort of the "make your own page" style things where you didn't have to learn HTML, you just had to have really bad design skills. The majority of pages on there were entirely rubbish. You're not missing out. Although

Quote: "I'm apparently a total n00b and have no idea what Geocities is. If I'm under 20, does that make it OK?"

No. Your life is obviously empty and without meaning.

Quote: "im 12 wat is this geocities"

As far as I can tell, 12 year old's should know, because it was mostly that sort of age which seemed to be building the pages.

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Aertic
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Quote: "As far as I can tell, 12 year old's should know, because it was mostly that sort of age which seemed to be building the pages."

The "im 12 wat is this" is a meme. Actually. ^_^ I was only kidding.

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Mahoney
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 20:11
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I'm 12-years-old and what is this?

/tutorial

Quote: "Geocities was a website where you could get your own free page. It had sort of the "make your own page" style things where you didn't have to learn HTML, you just had to have really bad design skills. The majority of pages on there were entirely rubbish. You're not missing out. "


All right. Thanks. Sorry I missed it.

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Zeus
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This is where I had my first website. But I can't say I'll miss it that much...


*Runs off crying*

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Grandma
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i think Matuka is a pretty cool guy, eh uses memes and doesn't afraid of anything.

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Benjamin
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I remember having a Geocities page once. It was the best page on the internet. RIP.

Oh and people who visit 4chan should be hanged, drawn and quartered.
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Then blew up, its never overkill when it comes to the crap they pull.

The cess pit of the internet


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crispex
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I used to frequent 4chan, until all the newf*g's came in and started posting the same crap over and over. After that, I simply left. I witnessed the birth of some great memes, and the deaths of many.

4chan actually sucked anyway. You could never find the damn topic you posted in, and most of the time you forgot what you posted.

I also remember when Anonymous was feared, now people just laugh at the idiots who go raging about nothing.

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Grandma
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Quote: "4chan actually sucked anyway. You could never find the damn topic you posted in, and most of the time you forgot what you posted."

And you see yourself as an oldie?
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I've been on 4chan for a couple years now, yes, I just didn't go on it every day.

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Mahoney
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I wanted to say the same thing, but refrained.

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Grandma
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And put the responsibility on me? I made myself look hifalutin. Thanks a lot.

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I was out-vocabularied in English by a Norwegian? This makes me sad. . .

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Aaagreen
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i think geocities is a pretty cool guy. eh wrath on teh internetz is finally end and doesnt afraid of anything

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