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News Yahoo deletes GeoCities today

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by CardJoe, 26 Oct 2009.

  1. gnutonian

    gnutonian What's a Dremel?

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    I just realised that there's kids on the WWW who are younger than Geocities.

    Great xkcd tribute though.

    Rest in peace, the .gif e-mail button!
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    And goodbye, extremely badly coded mess of tributes to bad bands!
     
  2. Star*Dagger

    Star*Dagger What's a Dremel?

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    This is why i am happy it is gone, too many poorly designed sites. On the other hand I do agree it should be backed up. I have 10TB here on my desk!

    Yours in Preservation Plasma,
    Star*Dagger
     
  3. Star*Dagger

    Star*Dagger What's a Dremel?

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    Oh jeez, i hope no porn was lost in this!!!!!!!
     
  4. supermonkey

    supermonkey Deal with it

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    +1. I was reading the news to my wife, and when I mentioned the words "looped midi background music" and "animated gifs" she immediately started singing the Hamster Dance song.

    Useless bit of trivia: The Hamster Dance music is the the first part of the intro to Disney's animated feature, Robin Hood. The first few times I heard it it drove me crazy. I knew the rhythm was too familiar, then it finally hit me as I hummed it the rest of the day.

    I fondly remember my first web page on Geocities. It was horrible. Like everyone else, my page was nothing more than an About Me list with a table full of links to other sites that were actually useful. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I made far too much use of the star field background.

    -monkey
     
  5. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    GeoCities?
     
  6. null_x86

    null_x86 Thread Closer

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    QFT. It should be archived so we can still have it as memories :D
     
  7. JrRRr

    JrRRr Minecraft addict

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    Jupp.. My fist homepage was at geocities, and web.archive.org actually saved my front page. Although without the cool background and fascinating animated gifs! :rock:

    I think it should be part of "Museum of Internet" since they do that with kitchen-furniture from the '70! Not a bad comparison if I'll say so myself..:D
     
  8. roblikesbeer

    roblikesbeer Bindi's sex slave.

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    Wow... last updated in September '97! :eeek:
     
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