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Geocities Shutting Down Today
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! Didn't they see my gif saying my site was under construction!
Fat Cat: I'd commemorate this by linking to my page on Geocities, but, well...
Have you read my journal today?
I'm going to miss Jesux, the born-again Linux.
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
So Long and Thanks for all the Blink Tags!
XKCD 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?
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!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Hey look - it's a low UID reunion!
"Reply to This?"
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
I don't see any low UIDs, young grasshopper...
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Based on the design, it looks like slashdot is marking the occasion too....what....it always looks like this?
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...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I have seen people not even read TFT. (The Full Title)
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
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
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 :)
People *made* Geocities pages? I thought they just typed random stuff in MS Frontpage...
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
Just gives an empty box, what do I type?
:wq
hmm
^D
meh
^X^C
nope.. ah, "Submit"?
i would never have known that ninjas are mammals
http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/ninja2.htm
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
A car analogy! Of course! Now I understand :D
It appears not to be compliant with present-day web-standards, just a quick run through an online HTML validator brings up some errors.
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!
Get a haircut, hippie. And get off my lawn.
Damned kids these days with their nostalgia...
Get off my lawn.
^Z
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Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
I am not a number! I am a free man!
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.
I just looked at the xkcd home page redone in geocities style. That is one talented web master to create a home page that managed to mimics every detail of what was bad about geocities web pages. Even right down to the x10 ad. :-)
Is that you, uncle Clint?
OMG Dude! You look like Dr. Beckett from Stargate Atlantis!!!!
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. :(
I am the inventor of the hilarious refrigerator alarm.
The internet is not just something you dump something on. It's not a big truck.
Badass Resumes
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.
I was an AOL user, you insensitive clod!
Me, too!
$comment =~ s/($verb)\s+($noun)/IN SOVIET RUSSIA, $2 $1s YOU!/g;
And September goes on...
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I am not a number! I am- Oh wait, I'm number 6130. Ha! In your face number 6131!
The enemies of Democracy are
all your base are . us / to belong
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
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.
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away