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GeoCities Japan Is Finally Shutting Down (qz.com)
"A decade ago, internet users who grew up with Web 1.0 bid a fond farewell to Sunset Strip, Rodeo Drive, Colosseum, and other 'neighborhoods' on web-hosting service GeoCities, when Yahoo announced it was shutting the main site down," writes Isabella Steger for Quartz. "Now Japanese GeoCities fans will face the same fate." From the report: Yahoo Japan announced today (Oct. 1) that it will shut down (link in Japanese) its GeoCities service in March 2019, 22 years after its launch. The company said in a statement that it was hard to encapsulate in one word the reason for the shut down, but that profitability and technological issues were primary factors. It added that it was full of "regret" for the fate of the immense amount of information that would be lost as a result of the service's closure. Japan is the only country where the web hosting service remained in operation. Like the main GeoCities, the Japanese service was also organized around different themed neighborhoods. For example, websites in the Silicon Valley neighborhood were tech-focused, while those in Berkeley focused on education.
Those are 90s web sites, tiny in comparison to today's animation heavy monsters. Aren't GeoCities sites static anyway? Then why couldn't they just make a tar of everything and hand it over to archive.org?
Too bad it's gone.
I was a real kid of the 90's. I hit my teens on the early part and ended them on the later part. I remember taking early high school webdesign and the cool thing to do was to create your own personal web page. Myspace (Facebook's precursor) wasn't even a thing yet so having your own web space was elite stuff (especially since it had to be entirely coded from scratch) and geocities helped that happened.
It's better now that the internet isn't such an elitist space but a lot of culture I really do miss was lost in it becoming as such. I have very heavy nerd nostalgia for all of those Geocities sites.
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For a similar experience to Geocities, just visit ANY OTHER Japanese website. They over-invested in cellphones and gaming systems in the late 90's at the cost of the home PC market. The Xennials never became casual computer nerds, so your average Japanese person UNDER 40 is about as computer literate as your average American OVER 40. The ones who aren't are the social outcasts, which is why nerds are still sort of niche/taboo.
I like those pictures of Japanese women with their small firm breasts and nipples that just won't quit. A big plus if they are topless and wearing a plaid pleated "school girl" skirt. I think most people agree that Japanese tits are awesome.
Feel free to post links if you have 'em!
...my page to Angelfire or Tripod.
Here you go.
Geocities was once a well-known name, Internet-wise. They could have offered a simple CMS interface in addition to raw HTML, and been what Facebook is, or at least what Blogger is (now owned by Google).
Context-sensitive banner ads at the top or bottom could have paid for it because Geocities was already divided by topic categories, simplifying targeted ads, which advertisers love.
But Yahoo purchased it and ruined it like everything else they ruined. Yahoo had their long fingers in almost every category*: search, social media, blogging, self-hosting, email, shopping (Amazon-esque), discussion groups, and others. Then fucked up each and every one. Their train of fuckups is so long, one thinks it may have been intentional: somebody at the top must have been afraid of success.
Yahoo was handed the Golden Keys to the Kingdom on a red pillow, but swallowed them and then shitted out of the back of the jet on the way to The Gate To The Internet.
It's comparable to the record company who turned down the early Beatles because "guitars are falling out of style"; except Yahoo turned down the Beatles, the Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night, and Aretha Franklin.
* or at least early versions of them
Table-ized A.I.
So the old (not really) joke is all the japanese homepages that littered the japanese sections of the web were usually hyper-niche sites that almost always had a DO NOT COPY or similar engrish comment. Which is kinda relevant in this case because it is an affirmative statement by the content creator/owner (assuming rights didn't transfer to Yahoo Japan).
Japan used to have some strange copyright rules such that even archives of culturally relevant content by the National Library were explicitly forbidden until recently, even for government webpages! That wasn't even some conspiracy to erase past failures either, just a side effect.
So, for the Internet Archive and similar organizations (many typically located in the US), who may be equipped to do a dump, will they even try? The japanese web evolved very differently, with one major web forum (2ch, now 5ch) being the all encompassing proto-social network of sorts (culturally similar to a single site that functioned culturally like the melting pot of slashdot, fark, something awful, and (shudder) AOL). Japanese geocities was the supporting foundation of information to the mega-platform that 2ch was. Though 2ch was usually ephemeral by nature, so aside from saved epic threads, there's not many real archives of the content.
Sooooooo much crapflooding in the comments here. Maybe Faceboot's troll army don't want us to remember the old, free internet. Back when there were lots of interesting sites, rather than the homogeneous corporate garbage "content" they shovel at us today.
I see APK is pissed that he keeps getting destroyed and exposed as a fraud. The above is what APK does when he can no longer defend himself or his shitty ideas. He is probably pissing himself in the corner wishing his mother hadn't fled back to Poland so she could live out her retirement dream of not having to care for her retarded man child of a son.
Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen H
c6gunner apk destroyed you easily for impersonating him and he did so with facts you can't overcome here https://science.slashdot.org/c... . I don't see apk posting here but you make it obvious you jews fear him blocking your ads.
Looks like they still use the classic Yahoo logo and homepage over there. Good old conservative Japan.