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Yahoo shutters GeoCities — my eyeballs are grateful

8 points by ciscoriordan 18y ago

abyssknight 18y ago
I still think this marks the end of an era. Websites and web presence in general have become so ubiquitous that the need for Geocities no longer exists. That is in and of itself amazing. I grew up on Geocities, and to be honest, that's where I learned HTML.
anigbrowl 18y ago
already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576053 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576053
ilamont 18y ago
Geocities -- one of those long-lost fads from 10 years ago, kind of like webrings. My eyeballs would be even more grateful if News Corp. shuttered MySpace -- or at least reined in some of the design customization options.
- pavel_lishin 18y ago
  Myspace becomes slightly more usable if you're running Flashblock.
  - jonursenbach 18y ago
    Or if you use it via Lynx.
zandorg 18y ago
In 1996, my friend and I made good use of Geocities by writing an online magazine. The most amusing thing was the rule that you had to link to Geocities at the bottom of the page. So we had stupid little slogans, derived from the article's topic, being the text link. Not only that, but we took the piss out of their stupid graphics. Oh, and possibly the world's first cat-picture site. One iconic animated GIF we made had a cat head composed of 2 cat heads, blinking its eye alternately. If we had done a cat picture site in 1996, we'd probably be millionaires.
sammcd 18y ago
For some reason, I am a little sad to see them go. I mean, some of the first HTML I ever wrote was on a GeoCities page when I was in middle school. I'm sure many of us have similar pasts.
- jbm 18y ago
  Same here. I freely admit my first creations were hardly anything of art; but keep in mind, this was back in the day when Classmates.com was charging for functionality that wasn't even close to what Facebook offers now. As a result, my classmates from CEGEP (pre-college) were able to keep up with each other, and we could even share some pictures. I have some shared hosting I use for my personal projects nowadays, but Geocities served me well back when I didn't have a credit card, and didn't have any money.

8 points by ciscoriordan 18y ago

I still think this marks the end of an era. Websites and web presence in general have become so ubiquitous that the need for Geocities no longer exists. That is in and of itself amazing. I grew up on Geocities, and to be honest, that's where I learned HTML.

anigbrowl 18y ago

already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576053 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576053

ilamont 18y ago

Geocities -- one of those long-lost fads from 10 years ago, kind of like webrings. My eyeballs would be even more grateful if News Corp. shuttered MySpace -- or at least reined in some of the design customization options.

pavel_lishin 18y ago
Myspace becomes slightly more usable if you're running Flashblock.
- jonursenbach 18y ago
  Or if you use it via Lynx.

zandorg 18y ago

In 1996, my friend and I made good use of Geocities by writing an online magazine. The most amusing thing was the rule that you had to link to Geocities at the bottom of the page. So we had stupid little slogans, derived from the article's topic, being the text link. Not only that, but we took the piss out of their stupid graphics. Oh, and possibly the world's first cat-picture site. One iconic animated GIF we made had a cat head composed of 2 cat heads, blinking its eye alternately. If we had done a cat picture site in 1996, we'd probably be millionaires.

sammcd 18y ago

For some reason, I am a little sad to see them go. I mean, some of the first HTML I ever wrote was on a GeoCities page when I was in middle school. I'm sure many of us have similar pasts.

jbm 18y ago
Same here. I freely admit my first creations were hardly anything of art; but keep in mind, this was back in the day when Classmates.com was charging for functionality that wasn't even close to what Facebook offers now. As a result, my classmates from CEGEP (pre-college) were able to keep up with each other, and we could even share some pictures. I have some shared hosting I use for my personal projects nowadays, but Geocities served me well back when I didn't have a credit card, and didn't have any money.