Farewall to Geocities

[dcfc_1928]

Geocities has finally closed down....

http://geocities.yahoo.com/

I remember many LOI websites running off Geocities in the late-90s, including my own Derry City site - which used to reside at:

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Stadium/7926

Any other old LOI Geocities users out there?

[Dodge]

The old Inchicore Saints Site was at Geocities too

Mine was at /7766

[dahamsta]

Here's (http://verbo.se/under-construction/) a bit of Geocities history I won't miss. It's where I started too though, so I guess ye should bow heads to Geocities in thanks for Foot.ie.

[dcfc_1928]

Brilliant!

The "Under Construction" signs were one of the first things that popped into my head this morning (along with hit counters and guestbooks), when I read about Geocities closing.

I was guilty of using a few of those animated GIFs myself, back in the day.


Here's (http://verbo.se/under-construction/) a bit of Geocities history I won't miss. It's where I started too though, so I guess ye should bow heads to Geocities in thanks for Foot.ie.

[tetsujin1979]

xkcd has a spot on tribute to GeoCities today: http://xkcd.com/

[dahamsta]

That's absolute class, the marquee, the broken image, the background, the BLINK tags, it just couldn't be more accurate! :)

[theworm2345]

Not LOI, but I've been using Geocities since I was about 11 (so 8 years now?). I've always outsourced by images to there and I learned HTML there (though my knowledge is still pretty limited). Will be greatly missed by me (especially as I hosted the table and banner images on there for this site (http://caribbeanfootballdatabase.com/) and now have to change it on every single page)

[Dodge]

He hee he. Remeber when webrings were innocent

[paul_oshea]

i dont think ironic is the word, but its a sad/weird day but also wonderful that an "icon" of the internet age is disappearing from the end of today.

I remember a school project I did back in the day as they say 97/98 and thinking how wonderful it was and trying to figure out what relative and absoloute paths meant :D The next page I did was a nirvana fan page, im sure i wasn't the only one ;) I remember getting in contact with a girl in america somewhere, georgia i think, who liked my page and i got on rather well with her actually.

Anyway the broken links/images etc was down to YOU, and not understanding relative links, not geocities, it was an error between chair and keyboard.

I wish i could remember that site like dodge can above.

[tetsujin1979]

some other tributes here:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbsite/
http://www.flashpointsocialmedia.com/Area51/Orion/geocities.html

[theworm2345]

Just logged in there a minute ago and all my files are still there.

[John83]

Presumably they'll take a few days to shut down, at least partly to cut down on the indignant support emails they'll be getting (I DIDBT GET MY FILES BACK AND YOUZ ARE ALL WEANTER S ANYWAY STEELING OUT WABSITE)