Geocities Shutting Down Today 396
Paolo DF writes "Geocities is closing today. Its advent in 1995 was a sign of the rising 'Internet for everyone' era, when connection speeds were 1,000x or 2,000x slower than is common today. You may love it or hate it, but millions of people had their first contact with a Web presence right here. I know that Geocities is something that most Slashdotters will see as a n00b thing — the Internet was fine before Geocities — but nevertheless I think that some credit is due. Heck, there's even a modified xkcd homepage to mark the occasion." Reader commodore64_love notes a few more tributes around the Web. Last spring we discussed Yahoo's announcment that Geocities would be going away.
WTF Yahoo! (Score:5, Funny)
WTF! Didn't they see my gif saying my site was under construction!
Moo (Score:2, Funny)
Fat Cat: I'd commemorate this by linking to my page on Geocities, but, well...
Goodbye, Jesux (Score:5, Funny)
So Long and Thanks for all the Blink Tags! (Score:5, Funny)
So Long and Thanks for all the Blink Tags!
Re:XKCD (Score:5, Funny)
XKCD [xkcd.com] has a lovely tribute to it today as well.
... which it says in the summary. I know a lot of people on here don't RTFA, but to not read the summary either??? What exactly do you read?
Re:N00b thing? (Score:5, Funny)
Sure can! There's a Pirated copy of the latest version on the BBS at 455-343-2121 use the username: P1rat3s and the Password of :arrrrgh! It's under the utilities section.
They only have 3 lines so try late at night or keep redialing.
While you are there try the new linux thing. You can download the first disk set of yggdrasl there. It's really cool!
Re:N00b thing? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:XKCD (Score:3, Funny)
Re:N00b thing? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't see any low UIDs, young grasshopper...
Marking the occasion (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Internet Archived; Time to Move On (Score:5, Funny)
Except no one is writing their own MySpace layout, you just copy a bunch of CSS from some template site.
So rather than inventing their own ugly, people can copy-paste generic pre-made ugly. Ah, the wonders of progress...
Re:XKCD (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Internet Archived; Time to Move On (Score:5, Funny)
I'm annoyed. Geocities was a convenient place for me to dump files I needed to access from home or work. It was also more customizable than Livejournal or Facebook.
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1416685&cid=29855905 [slashdot.org]
First off, I think we should disclose who we work for. I work for the a defense contractor that builds tanks. You probably work for RIAA or some other content company.
And still we wonder why secret stuff leaks :)
Re:Internet Archived; Time to Move On (Score:5, Funny)
People *made* Geocities pages? I thought they just typed random stuff in MS Frontpage...
Re:XKCD (Score:5, Funny)
Just gives an empty box, what do I type?
:wq
hmm
^D
meh
^X^C
nope.. ah, "Submit"?
without geocities (Score:3, Funny)
i would never have known that ninjas are mammals
http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/ninja2.htm [realultimatepower.net]
Re:Geocities: the Power of Simplicity (Score:2, Funny)
Re:check the source. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:N00b thing? (Score:1, Funny)
I hate using MS-DOS with the Windows overlay.
On a Commodore all you need to do is shove a cartridge in the rear and run an ethernet cable into it. Plug'n'play in 1982 baby! ;-)
That's the same thing I do to your Mom! Zing!
Re:N00b thing? (Score:5, Funny)
Get a haircut, hippie. And get off my lawn.
Damned kids these days with their nostalgia...
Re:XKCD (Score:2, Funny)
^Z
?
Re:N00b thing? (Score:4, Funny)
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet (Score:5, Funny)
It's as if millions of awful websites suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced. But no one heard them because no one has actually viewed any of them in years.
xkcd talent (Score:3, Funny)
Re:N00b thing? (Score:4, Funny)
Is that you, uncle Clint?
Re:Geocities lead me to my wife (Score:1, Funny)
OMG Dude! You look like Dr. Beckett from Stargate Atlantis!!!!
Re:Geocities lead me to my wife (Score:5, Funny)
So now that Geocities is shutting down does that mean your marriage will be annulled? Check the TOS. I'm pretty sure it does.
Sucks, dude. :(
Re:Internet Archived; Time to Move On (Score:5, Funny)
The internet is not just something you dump something on. It's not a big truck.
Re:N00b thing? (Score:3, Funny)
Then AOL came along and lowered the bar for becoming a n00b (and thus the quality of n00bs).
I was an AOL user, you insensitive clod!
Actually, I had AOL starting in 1993, so I was online (for certain values of "online") before Geocities came along. I was a bit of a late bloomer when it came to being an Internet geek. Most of my code hacking and game playing was offline until I got to college.
Re:N00b thing? (Score:5, Funny)
I was an AOL user, you insensitive clod!
Me, too!
Re:N00b thing? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:N00b thing? (Score:5, Funny)
I am not a number! I am- Oh wait, I'm number 6130. Ha! In your face number 6131!
preview (Score:1, Funny)
all your base are . us / to belong
Re:One of the greatest lessons ever learned... (Score:5, Funny)
I hear you. There was a time I thought that Slashdotters, given their ability to create a free account or post anonymously, could one day shape the ideas of millions through their multitude of Informative or Insightful opinions. Instead, all we got were a bunch of jaded windbags complaining incessantly about how mediocre everyone else in the world is.
Re:WTF Yahoo! (Score:3, Funny)
(WARNING: clicking on that link may be dangerous to your mental health.)
Apparently. It was blocked by the firewall at work as "porn." I guess whoever categorized that page went insane and has developed a fetish for Under Construction GIFs.
Re:Internet Archived; Time to Move On (Score:1, Funny)