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Post April 24th, 2009, 12:33 am

It looks like Yahoo is finally going to lay the once famed free web hosting service Geocities to rest after roughly 15 years.

Apparently Geocities has been struggling for the last decade, after being purchased by Yahoo for $4.7 Billion in 1999.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 12:33 am

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Post April 24th, 2009, 12:52 am

Aw.

It's like the passing of a really strange old uncle. The unlce that used to wear orange socks and a green tie with a blue pinstripe suit.

R.I.P. Geocities.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 12:56 am

I'm not sad ... in fact, rather elated.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 1:18 am

Breeze wrote:
I'm not sad ... in fact, rather elated.


Yes, likewise.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 6:10 am

Same here, I think the overall quality of web design on the net will bump up just a smidge. :)
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Post April 24th, 2009, 6:13 am

Now I'm annoyed that I own Yahoo stock. I didn't realize I was helping support the $4.7 billion Geocities price tag. Gotta love the Dot Com era where a lame web host was worth that kind of money.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 6:35 am

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Aw.

It's like the passing of a really strange old uncle. The unlce that used to wear orange socks and a green tie with a blue pinstripe suit.

R.I.P. Geocities.

Funny, I'm pretty sure my first ever "real" website (real as in it was on the web) was a Geocities site and looked a lot like that!
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Post April 24th, 2009, 6:35 am

I don't like that it is closing down totally, as people will lose content.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 7:23 am

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Funny, I'm pretty sure my first ever "real" website (real as in it was on the web) was a Geocities site and looked a lot like that!


Me too, lol. I believe mine was a scuba diving site - one long bulleted list underneath an animated gif, and there was a very busy background, blinking text, and whatever else I could possibly squeeze in. :)
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Post April 24th, 2009, 7:24 am

Hey, it was the 90's. The more movement you could squeeze on a page, the better!
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Post April 24th, 2009, 7:36 am

Don't forget about the rotating envelopes we used to use for the contact buttons. Back when it was still safe to use a mailto:

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Post April 24th, 2009, 7:40 am

Long live <marquee>!!
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Post April 24th, 2009, 7:43 am

Okay, now I'm just getting all misty eyed and nostalgic.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 7:46 am

I used homestead for my first website, although i was active with a few of my school friends on one of the MSN groups that were on the go. Infact, the group they created (about their band) was still online up until a year or two ago. I might even just go and look to see if it is still there :lol:
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Post April 24th, 2009, 7:52 am

Here's a healthy reminder of days of old (need sound for it)

http://www.sonnyradio.com/dialupkid.htm

You know you used to make those faces :) Kinda addictive, I had to watch it like 5 times, lol
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