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Geocities Shutting Down Today

Posted by kdawson on from the goodbye-and-thanks-for-all-the-blinkies dept.

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.

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  1. check the source. by jointm1k · · Score: 5, Informative

    Heck, there's even a modified xkcd homepage to mark the occasion."

    <HTML WEB="2.0">
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>

    ...

    </HTML>
    GOTO 10

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  2. Re:N00b thing? by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Informative

    Has it been that long?
    Can someone help me install Trumpet Winsock so I can get my Windows 3.11 system in the internet using PPP?

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  3. Re:WTF Yahoo! by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 5, Informative

    At least they archived all the "under construction" gifs (WARNING: clicking on that link may be dangerous to your mental health.) If anyone's interested this metafilter thread has the story of the guy who created the first of these gifs about halfway in.

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