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[bob_wonderllama]

 It is a sad day on the Intartubes. Geocities, one of the most popular free webhosting sites of the mid-90s, is closing it's virtual doors. I learned html and made my first webpage with Geocities 15 years ago. I doubt I would be where I am today if it wasn't for my "homestead" at /Heartland/Prairie/6768/.

Goodbye, old friend.

Comments

[savagesparrow]

My geocities site was called "Commodity of Oddities" and it was basically me and my cousin making fun of people at our schools. This makes me sad. How will kids now make lame websites with dancing jesuses and stuff? =\

[jacquilynne]

My geocities site, eventually moved to tripod when I lost my geocities password, was on a black background with red words.

It featured one of the early "Which X are you?" quizzes on the internet -- The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Character Affinity Quiz. Who knew I was on the bleeding edge of massive internet trend that would only get bigger and stupider for the next 15 years?

It is still available on teh innartubes here: http://www.angelfire.com/on/singingbanana/tests/form4.html -- though that was never my site. Someone else has stolen my content wholesale. Which, I suppose, was also pretty much a hallmark of the early days of the web.

You'll notice that I had not yet learned to make form submit buttons when I created that page, so the last question serves as a submit function.

[bob_wonderllama]

Nice. They even kept your name in the title and it still links back to Nashville/Opry/9992

It Will Live On

[ext_211900]

Some dude, in a sugar-induced geek craze, decided to try and download *all* of Geocities and re-host it elsewhere, and he appears to have been largely successful. It turns out that hardware has gotten big, cheap, and fast; and one guy with some shell scripts and wget can make all the difference.

http://www.reocities.com/newhome/