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Geocities - "Under Construction" gif archive
- dlnovell 17y agoI know this isn't news, the news would be that they're taking Geocities offline, but I thought this animated gif "Under Construction" archive was hilarious.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI had the red "renovating" banner with the paintbrush ... wish I'd known then as much as I do now about the web.
- hernan7 17y agoThere was less to know about the web back then, too. For starters, no CSS.
- DannoHung 17y agoIt's sort of poignant, in a way. Like, "For sale, baby shoes, never used."
- panic 17y ago"Never worn." How do you use a baby shoe?
- trafficlight 17y agohttp://www.thesixtyone.com/abledanger/song/For+Sale%3A+Baby+Shoes%2C+Never+Worn/61912/ http://www.thesixtyone.com/abledanger/song/For+Sale%3A+Baby+...
- tybris 17y agoWeb 0.9 was awesome.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- zandorg 17y agoI guess you could call it HTML 1.0...
- v2interactive 17y agoWhat is up the the guy at the end with the bulging crotch?
- trafficlight 17y agoThat's what you'd call laying pipe.
- derwiki 17y agoIt would be interesting to see the trend of using "under construction" graphics over time. At some point it just clicked that web pages are -always- under construction, and we didn't have to be as explicit about it anymore.
- zandorg 17y agoOn the topic of Geocities shutting down, I found an option in wget which ignores existing files - because Yahoo has a 503 error if you try to spider too many pages. It's -nc which means 'no clobber' - which is the least helpful phrase considering you could say 'ignore existing'... When you get a 503, wait about an hour, and then run wget until it fails, then wait an hour, etc, until you've got all 10mb of your webspace. Also -np to only spider below your page on Geocities.
- thwarted 17y ago"no clobber" matches the shell option of the same name.
- hypermatt 17y agoMy childhood coming back to me !
- yan 17y ago<MARQUEE><BLINK><FRAMESET>THESE ARE AWESOME!
- prodigal_erik 17y agoYou forgot such gems as <font effect=emboss> and <audioscope>, which I was blissfully ignorant of until seeing Kibo make fun of them a decade ago. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/msg/dc569dfec8f204bd http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/msg/dc569dfec...
- axod 17y agoSo all we've really done is replace that lot with the word "Beta".
- buugs 17y agoI'm waiting to see what next big advancement in web development the angled beta graphic changes into.
- jonny_noog 17y agoFilm noir under construction: http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/CaCapeCanaveralOrbit1801Construction.gif http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/CaCapeCanaveralOr... Classy.
- teeja 17y agoGood gawd, y'all! Why do I think of MTV when I see all that? Dire Straits!
- GHFigs 17y agoTime to start collecting the millions of variations on the "standard" orange RSS logo, and 80x15 badges, and social network follow buttons, et cetera.
- leif 17y agowho else wants a "web 1.0" holiday?
- aristus 17y agoI think he did a grep for "construct.gif". This image: http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/SiSiliconValleyVista2013constructor-index.gif http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/SiSiliconValleyVi... Is from an ancient version of JavaDoc if I remember correctly.
- markbao 17y agoDialup users beware!
- RevRal 17y agoNostalgia overload.
- clutchski 17y agobe thankful. history we can laugh at is rare.