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gonzo
10-26-2009, 07:51 AM
How many of you started out with geocities as a website or something similiar? Yahoo getting a taste of the hosting market.

http://geocities.yahoo.com/
softball
10-26-2009, 11:51 AM
A passing of an era.....we had one, of course. Back when it was all a mystery and getting "on" the internet was magic. It was way more fun back then.
gonzo
10-26-2009, 11:53 AM
A passing of an era.....we had one, of course. Back when it was all a mystery and getting "on" the internet was magic. It was way more fun back then.
Back when AOL made millions of pimping themselves as THE INTERNET.
Toby
10-26-2009, 12:48 PM
moment of silence observed
DannyCox
10-26-2009, 12:57 PM
Never had a geocities account. in fact, we were around before they were! ;)
Evil Chris
10-26-2009, 01:01 PM
Never had a geocities account. in fact, we were around before they were! ;)Same here.

My first "home page" was on Linq (a local Montreal "ISP") even before Carol's site was online! ;)
gonzo
10-26-2009, 01:23 PM
Same here.

My first "home page" was on Linq (a local Montreal "ISP") even before Carol's site was online! ;)
Home page was the buzzword.

I had my first one over on uunet.
cd34
10-26-2009, 03:20 PM
A group is archiving it and reopening it under reocities.com and they do have a link fixer plugin that will fix the links on your page. No 'editor', but I believe they are allowing FTP/publishing access.
Hell Puppy
10-26-2009, 07:51 PM
Shows the complete lack of vision of Yahoo and why they're struggling to stay relevant despite once upon a time being the largest site on the web.

Geocities was positioned to evolve into something like myspace or facebook or any number of other communities. It was active, vibrant, and even required minimal overhead as they had moderators doing most of the work for 'em.

And yahoo still managed to fuck it up.