Geocities Shutting Down Today

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 26, 2009 @04:50AM 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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Re:Internet Archived; Time to Move On by commodore64_love · 2009-10-26 05:03 · Score: 0, Troll

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.
I'm not going to show you my site but I used to greet my visitors with this audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5p15NoBKmo "Another visitor. Stay awhile. Staaaaay forever!"

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