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Geocities,
Reocities Well, there is someone out there who wants us to be able to get to some of those lost pages. Go to Reocities. Go check it out if you want to see what some people try to do for the rest of us.
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Geocities is a prime example of why I would never depend on a free hosting provider. Even one provided by an established online brand name.
@hari – Its amazing how much of a draw a little bit of free space can be to the average ISP customer. I remember when Rogers (cable provider) partnered with Yahoo! for their “content” and space at Geocities was part of the perk. It was crap.
At our company, I regularly get calls from people looking to activate their free webspace that comes with their account. Some accounts only come with 100mb. We offer no frills at all – just access – and they still eat it up.
Wow! they’ve got their work cut out for them. Google even had to purge their directories of all the GeoCities URL’s too. I bet that was fun. Moved a lot of PR around also.
GeoCities was HUGE, I can’t understand why they closed shop in the first place. They were ad driven. They must have coined a lot from advertising.
I had an account when they first opened up their doors. I lost track of it when I just left it and then Yahoo cam in and moved all the furniture around. I had some of my very first Flash animations done on that site. I would like to find them, but I think they’re lost now. I don’t remember the town/city/ wall or whatever it was I had mine located.
I’ve bookmarked quite a few unique and informative websites in Geocities. Hopefully somebody will revive those pages or at least archive it for historical purposes.
Amazing how so many people have stored so much valuable information with a free host.
I’m one of those people who rely on free sites…lol. I’ve had my free yahoo email account for at least 10 years. It has outlasted the 5 ISP’s I’ve been through. I use free blogger for my bl-g, mostly because I’m not reliable to keep at it long enough to actually make it worth paying for a site. I have to admit to trying Geocities too, but I remember it as not being all that great. There’s was too much junk trying to take over your screen whenever you visited one of their sites. I was always waiting for one virus or another to download itself on my computer.
You know, I think that sites like Wordpress are, in a way, a kind of “Geocities 2.0″; free, open for anyone, and the people who want to take it seriously (like MrCorey, myself, and many others) can get their website to act as a wordpress blog, but without the whatever.wordpress.org URL.
In terms of how ugly the sites were, you have to remember that, back in the day of Geocities, HTML was more primitive, CSS wasn’t really a thing (it might have been, but good luck actually finding a site that used it at it’s then-full potential), and stuff like PHP and whatnot were not rampant like they are today.
I work for a hosting company, hosting top-level domains, and we have a program called “Easy Site Wizard Pro”. I have to admit, as much as a WYSIWYG editor can limit one in creating a site they really can be proud of, this program gets impressively close. At any time, you can edit the HTML, CSS, and Meta tags of your site, but you also have the ability to click and drag an image about a half-inch to the left, if it doesn’t look quite right.
If that program, or programs like that, were as available in 1996 as they are today, we probably wouldn’t look back at sites like GeoCities and Angelfire with such disdain for their designs. Half of the problem were the tools, the other half were the mindsets that people had. Aside from uploading some images, I do zero coding on my site, and while it’s not the best looking site, the same level of coding didn’t really get you anywhere 13-14 years ago. You had to know HTML, and most people just caught the basics.
Hey, neat! A blink tag!!
Geocities? Yea it reminds me of flashy and spinning ‘next’ buttons and what not. Lol.
I like http://www.archive.org/.
WOW. Geocities! Blast from the past, man.
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