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GeoCities is not completely dead

126 pointsby alter8almost 13 years ago

18 comments

jgroomealmost 13 years ago
I ran a search for "site:geocities.com/Area51" to see if the old free hosting webpages are still alive. Found this gem:<a href="http://www.geocities.com/area51/3253/" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/area51/3253/</a><p>It's very easy to look down our collective noses at Geocities, but I really feel I owe virtually everything I have to their free 2mb hosting. I learned the ins and outs of FTP from uploading my first webpages - webpages that taught me how HTML works. I did my best to hide their sponsor banners with my first JavaScript.<p>Everyone has access to their own Facebook profile and the like these days, so the idea of owning your own space on the Web is kind of archaic.<p>But is there still an equivalent of Geocities for modern Internet users?
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sp332almost 13 years ago
Wow, real Geocities.com domain? I wonder if someone missed a server when decommissioning the cluster? I thought this was going to refer to the fact that you can replace geocities.com with reocities.com and get most sites. <a href="http://www.reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html</a>
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wgxalmost 13 years ago
Wow. Clicked a few and got; a guy selling wooden carvings of ships, a lodge resort in Oklahoma, and "Cafe Cokin is an Unofficial Cokin Filter System web site".<p>They don't make the internet like that anymore.
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feinalmost 13 years ago
It's like looking through time! On another note, Bandung, Indonesia seems like a nice vacation spot.<p>This guys woodcarvings are absolutely incredible. Fully detail MRAP? A wooden F-2002? I'll take one!<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/wcaindonesia/" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/wcaindonesia/</a>
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mayneackalmost 13 years ago
Filtered for the past year: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=site%3Ageocities.com#q=site:geocities.com&#38;hl=en&#38;safe=off&#38;tbo=1&#38;output=search&#38;source=lnt&#38;tbs=qdr:y&#38;sa=X&#38;ei=5uLhT_24NIXg0gH2oqXQAw&#38;ved=0CAgQpwUoBQ&#38;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&#38;fp=472de1850f724220&#38;biw=1280&#38;bih=623" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=site%3Ageocities.c...</a>
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saraid216almost 13 years ago
My high school yearbook senior quote has a link to my geocities.com page. I thought I was brilliant for thinking of it. :(
broabprobealmost 13 years ago
A lot of sites were cloned to geocities.ws as well. My "apple dance" site (banjo kazoo soundtrack and all) was zombified at <a href="http://geocities.ws/appledance2001/" rel="nofollow">http://geocities.ws/appledance2001/</a><p>It's embarrassing but historical.
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mayneackalmost 13 years ago
This guy has a working widget to weather underground with today's weather. <a href="http://photographic-exploration.com/" rel="nofollow">http://photographic-exploration.com/</a>
vibrunazoalmost 13 years ago
Just found this clone called oocities.org. I had no idea my old mugen website was saved here. Unfortunately most of it isn't working. But it's certainly a nice nostalgic feeling to revisit my old website :)<p>Anyone interested Mugen characters and stages? Java applets simulating starcraft units using a physics engine? Winamp AVS plugin samples that will show a smiley face singing along your music or a guy running in the rain using math to generate the lines? Then you're welcome to my 2001 website ^^<p><a href="http://www.oocities.org/vibhp/us.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oocities.org/vibhp/us.html</a>
drzaiusapelordalmost 13 years ago
ASCII art page last updated March 2001. This was someone's labor of love and creative outlet for a long time.<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/spunk1111/kids.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/spunk1111/kids.htm</a>
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GigabyteCoinalmost 13 years ago
They even still index some reported attack pages...
seanconatyalmost 13 years ago
This is a great resource on the relative short history of HTML. Quirksmode, font tags, table-based layouts, etc.
joshualmost 13 years ago
So wait, did they shut it down or not?
aswansonalmost 13 years ago
Wow...on a related note it looks like cybertown.com is still alive as well. Ah, the late 90s...
Shenglongalmost 13 years ago
What happened to my EnchantedForest/Tower/5436!?<p>I remember that first i-frame site I built when I was 10...
fppalmost 13 years ago
1490 updates during the last 12 months - 131 past month - 21 past week
Yuioupalmost 13 years ago
Steve Zito is my new hero.
derlethalmost 13 years ago
Somewhere, Jason Scott is laughing. Probably in the middle of petabytes of storage at the Archive.org World Headquarters.<p><a href="http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities" rel="nofollow">http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities</a><p><a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2298" rel="nofollow">http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2298</a>