End of an era

[AstroManLuca]

Oh noes, no more "ate my balls" websites!

 

[oddyager]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
wish there was a cache of these sites from like 1996-1997 would love to dig up my old page.

archive.org has my old site

what was the url format back then

geocities.com/username/?

yeah I think so. it then became Areas and neighborhoods after.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Geocities was where all the shitty webpages were before there was a myspace.

we've come so far, yet we've progressed so little

 

[ivan2]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
wish there was a cache of these sites from like 1996-1997 would love to dig up my old page.

archive.org has my old site

what was the url format back then

geocities.com/username/?

this is when after yahoo bought them, way back it was geocities.com/some_lame_area/anumber/

 

[nageov3t]

awesome.

my geocities page from when I was in high school still comes up on a google search for my name... and I can't do anything about it because I don't have access to the email address that I setup the account with.

 

[Queasy]

oh no! Where will all the animated gifs go now?

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: ivan2

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
wish there was a cache of these sites from like 1996-1997 would love to dig up my old page.

archive.org has my old site

what was the url format back then

geocities.com/username/?

this is when after yahoo bought them, way back it was geocities.com/some_lame_area/anumber/

like geocities.com/Colosseum/2544 or something

 

[Aikouka]

Ahh these sorts of pages really bring back memories... kids these days just don't know the fun of making a shitty webpage anymore 🙁.

 

[JoPh]

my page was something like /eureka/xxxxxx



ahhhh.. memories.

 

[JEDIYoda]

end of an era...for shitty webpages...lol

 

[HardcoreRobot]

ahhhhh
good riddance

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Ahh these sorts of pages really bring back memories... kids these days just don't know the fun of making a shitty webpage anymore 🙁.

Myspace = today's GeoCities

 

[Crono]

Lol, my geocities site is still up, but in its last incarnation as a keyword redirect site designed to direct traffic to another site I used to run.

 

[Hacp]

Some of those pages were actually good and informative.

 

[shocksyde]

I used to have a NIN page and an Insane Clown Posse page on Geocities. Oh, memories.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Hacp
Some of those pages were actually good and informative.

Quite a few of them still are. A lot of people with limited computer skills have posted ridiculously detailed information on their obscure hobbies (Pachinko machines anyone?).

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
ahhhhh
good riddance

My only memory of geocities is how many of its sites just didn't work.

 

[iamwiz82]

<blink> my friends... Remember the <blink>

 

[ithec]

I created about 10 geocities accounts to host full episodes of dragonball z and roms.

 

[LtPage1]

Wow crazy. I definitely had a couple of those way back in the day. Black backgrounds and neon text ftw! And don't forget poorly inserted gifs. And MIDI! Hell yes.

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
<marquee><blink> my friends... Remember the </blink></marquee>

Fixed that for you

 

[state 08]

I remember that I had a Java Chat Applet on my page and one day, I CALLED my friend to tell him to go to my page so we can CHAT online. Heheh, sounds ridiculous now, but this was before IM clients. I think ICQ may have been out (this was 1994-5ish), but I didnt know of it.

 

[James Bond]

My very first webpage 🙁

 

[0roo0roo]

lol geocities. the myspace of webhosting

 

[Newbian]

Geocities, angelfire, and tripod were awesome at the time but mainly tripod since of the three they were the only ones that didn't add crap to your sites for the longest.