Adam Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Hah say good bye to geocities: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/geocities-closing.html And sites like these.. http://xkcd.com/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 thank god Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-944808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Heard about this in the spring, but apparently today is D-day. As much as I love the web today, I miss the kind of small-scale, home brew atmosphere the internet had in spades in the late 90's/early 2000's. It really felt like a digital frontier back then, where small clusters of enterprising nerds would create fan sites for their favorite game, anime, or manga. Not that it doesn't happen today, but the rough edges made everything feel more quaint. Nothing quite like being on one of my campus' linux boxes surfing to find a good Phantasy Star fan site. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-944835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Wait, Geocities was still running? Truthfully, Geocities was horrible. Had they updated their tools they might still be around. Amazing to think that POS was once valued at 3 billion dollars. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-944842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 http://xkcd.com/ Did you check out the source code? <HTML WEB="2.0"> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="QBASIC">IF $BROWSER = "IE" THEN GOTO 50</SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE='SCHEME'>(define (eval exp env) (cond ((self-evaluating? exp) exp) ((variable? exp) (lookup-variable-value exp env)) ((quoted? exp) (text-of-quotation exp)) ((assignment? exp) (eval-assignment exp env)) ((definition? exp) (eval-definition exp env)) ((if? exp) (eval-if exp env)) ((lambda? exp) (make-procedure (lambda-parameters exp) (lambda-body exp) env)) ((begin? exp) (eval-sequence (begin-actions exp) env)) ((cond? exp) (eval (cond->if exp) env)) ((application? exp) (apply (eval (operator exp) env) (list-of-values (operands exp) env))) (else (error "Common Lisp or Netscape Navigator 4.0+ Required" exp))))</SCRIPT> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-944873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
seventheyejosh Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 That is so amazing. I love the "INT MAIN(VOID) { COUT << "\" in the upper left Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-944952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Geocities.. pfft. I won't miss it one bit. Excerpt from: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/geocities-closing.html Yahoo paid about $3 billion in 1999 for a company that seemed poised to continue its domination of the user-driven Net. Failing to turn any significant profit from all of those pop-ups and banner ads (in fact, there's questions about whether GeoCities was ever cash-flow positive), the purchase -- or perhaps Yahoo's inaction once GeoCities was acquired -- turned out to be one of the company's most costly mistakes. Ah, money well spent. Well, that's one small sliver of 'internet cancer' eradicated. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I knew about this like 3 months ago. Yahoo had an obsession of sending messages saying that geocity was being shut down and if you had an account it will be deleted. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keldorn Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I remember the days when you would go onto Google or Yahoo and search something and lots of the geocities sites would be up, or just those "Homemade" pages someone put their heart into and made, maby their were knowledgeable on the subject. Today, there gone, instead now when I search. I get pages with nice templates but with more often then not, crappy content squieezed in around an Advertising block like Adsense, they call em Adsense spam sites. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Geocities sites are probably the reason my school is so paranoid and only allows .edu or .gov on research papers. (Kidding... sort of.) As gizmola said, I had no idea that geocities was even still running.... Also, this morning, when I checked xkcd (I check it every morning that there's a new one lol), I saw the page and still half asleep I was just like "wtf?" Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I remember Geocities... kinda of. Was I too young for that stuff? I only got on the internet in '04 (Around '04 and '05. At that time I was only allowed Kiddymail or something similar. And Neopets. Sometimes. And any other sites had to be authorized by my dad. I remember I got into tonnes of trouble when I signed up for a Hotmail without asking). I remember that it was full of pages I didn't care about, that were poorly done, unmaintained and had no useful content Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Ahhh, good old Neopets. lol. I think geocities was big from like 95 (maybe that's too early?) until like 2000. Based on your accessing "Kiddymail" (which sounds oddly like a pedophile ring) and Neopets in 2004, I would guess that I'm not much older than you, so I don't really remember Geocities much either. Well, I don't remember its hayday. I definitely remember the horrible sites that lingered after forever. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Hahah. Funny enough, it wasn't. It was the exact opposite. I wasn't allowed to get mail from anyone that my parents didn't add to a whitelist. I was 12 in '04 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Oh, we are the same age then. I would imagine to remember the full effect of geocities, we would have to be like 24 lol. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Yeah, but if we remembered the full effects, we'd have lived through the era before the internet was real. It'd be like having Freeweb pages. But all over the place. I mean, did they even have a decent mainstream serverside language? I'm glad I'm this young Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Also, this morning, when I checked xkcd (I check it every morning that there's a new one lol), You only have to check Monday, Wednesday and Friday because that's when the new ones are released. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keldorn Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I mean, did they even have a decent mainstream serverside language? I'm glad I'm this young Yeah its called Perl. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I think geocities was big from like 95 (maybe that's too early?) I remember making sites like this in 97 using hotdog & frontpage 95 for IE 2/3, Netscape. It was all about how many animated gifs you could fit on a page. Amazing how far we have come really. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 Aha! I remember back at school in about 2002 creating geocities websites in lessons to say how err, homosexual our friends were. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 If you had the Internet when I was at school you had plenty of money to afford the phone bill. Would of had accounts with the likes of AOL & Compuserve. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I still have my personal page which started somewhere around 1997 and is hosted on our local 'geocitieslike' provider (which surprisingly manages to stay above the surface for the time being). It isn't as joyful to watch as xkcd layout, but still... it has lots of funny things And yeah! I had midi music in background! The player was opening in pop-under so that the music would play continuously when navigating through my site (and also after leaving it). Oh my! I still have 15 visits per month on average! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Also, this morning, when I checked xkcd (I check it every morning that there's a new one lol), You only have to check Monday, Wednesday and Friday because that's when the new ones are released. Yeah.... I know. Yesterday morning was Monday ;p. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Good grief, some of you are young. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 il have you know the master of devlopment in training(me) developed his first site on geocites Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Good grief, some of you are young. Good grief some of you are old? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/179078-bye-bye-geocities/#findComment-945947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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