Say bye-bye to GeoCities

[LtNoogie]

Yahoo has announced that they will be shutting it down later this year. One headline said it best:

"Goodbye GeoCities, we had forgotten that you still existed"

[SIPNGAS]

LOL

[SilverBack]

Wow. First Yahoo Briefcase, then this...

[yaris-me]

Yahoo screwed them up, going back on agreements and selling private information to third parties. I think free web hosting is going to fall by the wayside. The internet is turning into a cash cow.:frown:

[eTiMaGo]

www.geocities.com/rome/coliseum/2435 (I think)... my very first website :biggrin: Those were the days, I raise my glass at them!

[AlexNet0]

well, if you need free hosting, ill give up to 3 gigs free to YW members lol

i had my first site on geocities, long since forgotten

[tomato]

Geocities still exists?

[LtNoogie]

Exactly

[tuckevalastin]

I don't care how awful Geocities was/is, they did a lot for us all. That's sad news in my book.

[LtNoogie]

The only time I used Geocities was to host some files that I was sharing with an investment group. I never made a web page there or on AOL.

[LtNoogie]

www.geocities.com/rome/coliseum/2435 (I think)... my very first website :biggrin: Those were the days, I raise my glass at them!

"Sorry, the page you requested was not found. "

[LtNoogie]

Ok, now this is AMAZING! The Alta Vista search engine is still around. Who knew? Who cares?

For those of you who have been on the web as long as I have, I need to see if NCSA Mosaic is still around. Or the Lynx (text only) browser.

[eTiMaGo]

"Sorry, the page you requested was not found. "

yeah well that was what, 12 years ago? :laugh:

[supmet]

I don't care how awful Geocities was/is, they did a lot for us all.

All they did for me was bug me with the earliest version of the popup ad :P

I started on xoom and now its all about izfree - free mysql and php servers ftw

[PHXDEMON]

Who still uses that piece of shit anyway :laugh:

[ChinoCharles]

Remember when AOL was the leader? :laugh:

[eTiMaGo]

and Microsoft Hotmail was HoTMaiL? and Google was just, well... nothing, Yahoo FTW...

[ka0sx]

Ok, now this is AMAZING! The Alta Vista search engine is still around. Who knew? Who cares?

For those of you who have been on the web as long as I have, I need to see if NCSA Mosaic is still around. Or the Lynx (text only) browser.



pfft i still use alta vista for babel fish

[LtNoogie]

I've never stopped using my AOL email address. In fact, I have two of them. LtNoogie was my first ever screenname from waayyy back when AOL was new and I was afraid to use my real name. Back when if you weren't careful, you AOL bill could be $60 in a month.

Does anyone remember using dialup BBS's? The kind where you had to upload some files so that you had the right to download cool files.

14,400kbs, zmodem, xmodem, ymodem...FTW!

After years of searching, I was able to download to my old Motorola phone a ringtone that stops people in their tracks. It went something like... wee uuuu wehhh uuuu wang wang wang ... the old modem connect tones. People would be going WTF? Who's dialing out on their cellphone?:laugh:

[SilverBack]

I remember back in '99 when I used to own a Mac there used to be this app called MacPPP. It used to connect me to web for free using a short-lived ISP called FreeI. It was pretty much a competitor for NetZero when it was still free. The times change so quickly. Now we just sit back and play some Pong while waiting for Time-Warner to back-stab AOL... :evil:

[detroiter]

The only graphics you could find on a webpage was ASCII ;)

[Black Yaris]

I remember using AOL 1.5 and it was a big deal when 2.0 came out

BBS's FTW

I miss my 2400 baud modem :)

[Shroomster]

I miss netscape lol

[tomato]

I miss netscape lol

+1:biggrin:

[firebob]

So no one was ever into to telneting into a collage to get the info you needed. I remember it tacking a few hours to get a file that would fit on a floppy.

I only had AOL on one computer and it was becouse I needed the net at a new house before I had time to get something set up. You could set up AOL at 1 in the morning.

Did anyone have to learn there ABC’s in binary? One of the classes I had in collage had us learn it and the teacher thought it was going to be useful one day.

[SilverBack]

I miss netscape lol

I miss Mozilla LMAO