geocities is closing - Page 2

Mrs. Butcher · 05.20.2009, 11:35 AM

Web 1.0 was it. I miss those animated gifs bad.

atsonicpark · 05.20.2009, 11:49 AM

Man, remember when you'd stumble across someone's personal page and it was just a million animated gifs, midis in the background (which like 10 minutes to load!), and dead links?

afterthefact · 05.20.2009, 11:58 AM

Haha, I miss those days. Those were also right before the days of Napster and such, and you had to go to those pages if you wanted to download music, and the songs were usually in Real Player format.

Mrs. Butcher · 05.20.2009, 12:05 PM

AOL hometown has gone too.

no-one seems to make their own sites now, I remember when bands had a geocities site rather than a myspace (or facebook now).

Mrs. Butcher · 05.20.2009, 12:09 PM

also those animations that'd follow the cursor. amazing!

afterthefact · 05.20.2009, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Butcher

AOL hometown has gone too.

no-one seems to make their own sites now, I remember when bands had a geocities site rather than a myspace (or facebook now).

Laziness, that's why.

I could go on about this for hour's (and I did on the phone yesterday), but people want to get famous with as little effort as possible. Even starting your own crappy webpage had somewhat of a DIY asthetic to it. Now with myspace and such, people just let other people do the hard work and still hope to get famous. You know those stupid messages that go around, saying to get a band name by clicking "random article" at wikipedia? Bands actually do that, because they are too lazy to come up with a name for their band, something that should be specific to them to describe their music and how they feel about it! But they are too freakin' lazy!!

But I digress. Hey, anybody remember the old ICQ?

atsonicpark · 05.20.2009, 12:17 PM

yeah, I remember my number - 80128590!

also, I have a geocities page

www.geocities.com/scissor_shock

atsonicpark · 05.20.2009, 12:18 PM

OH GOD REAL PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!11 i totally forget real audio!! .ra, .ram, and .rm files on my computer. So ridiculous.

afterthefact · 05.20.2009, 12:22 PM

I used to have a folder full of .ram files, and I made all of the songs with bad language hidden so my mom wouldn't find them

haha

Mrs. Butcher · 05.20.2009, 12:27 PM

I used to enjoy happy flowers aol site:

http://web.archive.org/web/200204090...mtbrand=AOL_US

afterthefact · 05.20.2009, 12:28 PM

There was a time when everybody liked hampsterdance, not just old people...

Villain Bird · 05.20.2009, 12:52 PM

GEOCITIES CLOSING?!

How will you fags hampsterdance or Atsonicpark ever be able to look at thumbs going up bums ever AGAIN!?

tw2113 · 05.20.2009, 03:48 PM

atsonicpark · 10.29.2009, 05:34 AM

Glice · 10.29.2009, 05:44 AM

A timely reminder that the internet has no obligation make an archive of un-interesting self-indulgent shite. Also, a timely reminder that nostalgia's memory is always blind to how shit something actually was.

"Nobody makes their own sites now" seems an odd statement when more people make their own sites now than ever before.

Lamont Cranston · 10.29.2009, 06:32 AM

I saved the most important pages of the King Crimson Live! website - 1969-1974. But of course thats going to be out of date after a while.
I sent an email a while back to the operator asking what would be happening to the database, never got a reply :S

atsonicpark · 10.29.2009, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glice

A timely reminder that the internet has no obligation make an archive of un-interesting self-indulgent shite.

www.reocities.com
www.archive.org

pbradley · 10.29.2009, 12:17 PM

Angelfire is still 'round, I believe.

Rob Instigator · 10.29.2009, 12:21 PM

I was also on geocities very early on. I ahd two websites for my art.

Rob Instigator · 10.29.2009, 12:22 PM

speaking of ancient shit, remember when I put andy warhol's face on layla?

05.20.2009, 11:35 AM	#21
Mrs. Butcher bad moon rising Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 136	Web 1.0 was it. I miss those animated gifs bad.
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atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Man, remember when you'd stumble across someone's personal page and it was just a million animated gifs, midis in the background (which like 10 minutes to load!), and dead links? __________________
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afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	Haha, I miss those days. Those were also right before the days of Napster and such, and you had to go to those pages if you wanted to download music, and the songs were usually in Real Player format. __________________ "She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind." - Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
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05.20.2009, 12:05 PM	#24
Mrs. Butcher bad moon rising Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 136	AOL hometown has gone too. no-one seems to make their own sites now, I remember when bands had a geocities site rather than a myspace (or facebook now).
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05.20.2009, 12:09 PM	#25
Mrs. Butcher bad moon rising Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 136	also those animations that'd follow the cursor. amazing!
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05.20.2009, 12:17 PM	#27
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	yeah, I remember my number - 80128590! also, I have a geocities page www.geocities.com/scissor_shock __________________
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05.20.2009, 12:18 PM	#28
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	OH GOD REAL PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!11 i totally forget real audio!! .ra, .ram, and .rm files on my computer. So ridiculous. __________________
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05.20.2009, 12:22 PM	#29
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	I used to have a folder full of .ram files, and I made all of the songs with bad language hidden so my mom wouldn't find them haha __________________ "She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind." - Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
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05.20.2009, 12:27 PM	#30
Mrs. Butcher bad moon rising Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 136	I used to enjoy happy flowers aol site: http://web.archive.org/web/200204090...mtbrand=AOL_US
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05.20.2009, 12:28 PM	#31
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	There was a time when everybody liked hampsterdance, not just old people... __________________ "She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind." - Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
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05.20.2009, 12:52 PM	#32
Villain Bird little trouble girl Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 95	GEOCITIES CLOSING?! How will you fags hampsterdance or Atsonicpark ever be able to look at thumbs going up bums ever AGAIN!?
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tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,147	__________________ Shake shake
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10.29.2009, 05:34 AM	#34
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	RIP __________________
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10.29.2009, 06:32 AM	#36
Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	I saved the most important pages of the King Crimson Live! website - 1969-1974. But of course thats going to be out of date after a while. I sent an email a while back to the operator asking what would be happening to the database, never got a reply :S __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Angelfire is still 'round, I believe.
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10.29.2009, 12:21 PM	#39
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,961	I was also on geocities very early on. I ahd two websites for my art. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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10.29.2009, 12:22 PM	#40
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,961	speaking of ancient shit, remember when I put andy warhol's face on layla? __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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