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Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities
Mike writes "It's official: Yahoo is pulling the plug, and GeoCities is dead. GeoCities had suffered a long and drawn-out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has yet to be determined. Awful, eye-punishing graphics, lack of relevancy, and 'lowest-common-denominator design' are believed to have contributed to its demise. GeoCities was 15 years old." There is doubtless a lot of funny and informative stuff on there that's worth saving (not just Jesux, which pudge has now migrated). If some of it belongs to you, perhaps you should move it sometime in the next few months. Update: 04/24 18:10 GMT by T : And if you know some GeoCities page owners who aren't especially computer savvy, you could point out to them how easy it is to slurp down their pages for re-hosting elsewhere.
RIP Geocities, the Friendster of the 90's generation.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Prodigy tried the flashy nasty ad thing before AOL and was pulverized for it. AOL made a whole business plan around it.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
"Awful, eye-punishing graphics, lack of relevancy, and 'lowest-common-denominator design' are believed to have contributed to it's demise."
Sounds like myspace
GeoCities:
Learn HTML, post Animated Gifs, Blare Midis
MySpace:
post Animated Gifs, Blare Mp3s
YouTube:
Blare "Animated" Videos with Sound
Twitter:
Blare
Where will we go for our fix of lousy, horribly formatted websites from 1997?
I feel bad for this sucker:
WHAT A SHAMBLES & A POOR SHOW. NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW EITHER. FORTUNATELY I SAVED MY WEBPAGE & TRANSFERRED IT TO GEOCITIES.
Link Here: http ://geocities.yahoo.com/v/gcp_choose/
Real easy to do a simple webpage. With more time I think this could be better than aol.
Is this a news report or a trailer for a motion picture?
It'll probably be more like Google, Google and Google 10 years from now.
This is a sig. It is appended to the end of comments I post.
Now they live on on google cache. It never forgets and never forgives.
I was working at yahoo in the early days and I got the job of working to integrate the stuff geocities was doing with some of our stuff. The moment I met them I was convinced these were the wrong sort of people to be working for yahoo. They developed on Windows by Crom! When anyone asks when yahoo started going downhill I point to the GeoCities acquisition.
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(yes, even after 15 years)
And this is a spinning GIF logo. Your browser is just too tasteful to display it.
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especially some of the pictures of fallen soldiers I had up, didn't sit well with me...perhaps i'm just too good at holding a grudge, but i'm glad they're dead.
The beauty of context.
You slashdotted Geocities! Most impressive!
As if millions of internet web pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened....
Propping up a camera?
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I think you need to work on your technique of first impressions... :)
This sig is the express property of someone.
Yes, yes and yes. And no, I am not gonna ban you, biggie, don't even ask.
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I don't think there will be a 'Google' in ten years, I am more thinking there will be a 'Google-Starbucks-Boeing-WalMart-America-China' super entity that reigns over the known universe and controls everything via an AI named 'GORT-Hal-Skynet.'
Luckily for us, I think we will still have the real Arnold Schwarzenegger for defense, and if not, we will always have digitized CGI models of him to wage binary wars on the new GooMartBucksWangCletusPlane superstructure....
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They can't shut it down, my site is still under construction!