RIP GeoCities

[2muchcoffeeman]

And if you're one of the 12 people left whose homepage is still there, consider archiving it.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/163765/so_long_geocities_we_forgot_you_still_existed.html

 

[forever_town]

I had my first Web page on Geocities.

RIP.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Saw the article this afternoon. Can't believe Yahoo spent $4 BILLION on GeoCities 10 years ago.

We should save this because there may become a time when Facebook or another site becomes the e-equivalent of an antique.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I guess heaven needed someone to be a prick about hot-linking.

 

[Gomer]

I still have a geocities site for resume purposes. Their home page says it won't be closed down until sometime later this year and that they'll provide instructions for archiving later this summer. Presumably they'll open up FTP - once a free service - for a while so folks like myself can grab everything that's on there easily.

 

[RickStain]

Saw the article this afternoon. Can't believe Yahoo spent $4 BILLION on GeoCities 10 years ago.

We should save this because there may become a time when Facebook or another site becomes the e-equivalent of an antique.

And by "may" you mean "absolutely will" and "time" you mean "within a couple of years."

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Abe Vigoda's home page is on Geocities.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Saw the article this afternoon. Can't believe Yahoo spent $4 BILLION on GeoCities 10 years ago.

We should save this because there may become a time when Facebook or another site becomes the e-equivalent of an antique.

And by "may" you mean "absolutely will" and "time" you mean "within a couple of years."

Perhaps. I think the advertising revenue stream makes Facebook's chances for staying around a little better.

 

[mustangj17]

****... Our track page was on geocities. All the school records, meet results since 1997.

 

[mediaguy]

Didn't Geocities have some huge USFL archive page? Team helmets, year-by-year stats, everything. It was frighteningly comprehensive.

 

[RickStain]

Perhaps. I think the advertising revenue stream makes Facebook's chances for staying around a little better.

They're getting there, but the bandwidth and server costs for a site like that are huge, and the ad revenue isn't getting there. They are running through venture capital fast and furious.

They do seem to know that the moment the ads become too onerous, someone will replace them with an ad-free version, so they are keeping it pretty non-invasive.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

I guess heaven needed someone to be a prick about hot-linking.

Now that's funny.