The end of an era... c|net is reporting that GeoCities Dies in March 2019, and with it a Piece of Internet History :
The web-hosting site GeoCities was a paragon of this early internet era, but in March 2019 (almost 25 years after its creation in 1994) it'll cease to exist.
Yahoo Japan announced that it would shut down GeoCities.co.jp on March 31, 2019. Yahoo bought GeoCities in 1999 for $3.6 billion. In 2009 Yahoo shut down GeoCities in the US, but for some reason spared GeoCities Japan. When Yahoo shuts down GeoCities Japan in 2019, the life of GeoCities will finally come to an end.
If you want to go back and take a look at how things used to be, the Internet Archive in 2009 made a special effort to preserve GeoCities pages. There are links on that page to other efforts to preserve the US side of GeoCities.
If you have an account on SoylentNews, you can go into your preferences and select the "vomit" theme to bring a touch of GeoCities nostalgia to life right here!
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday October 03 2018, @11:21AM (2 children)
I'll drink to that.
I mean... to wash away the memory back into the subconscious shadows from where it was revived.
And to re-associate the nausea feeling with something much more pleasant... the hangover.
but yeah, the vomit theme causes a good trip into those bad memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday October 03 2018, @11:56AM (1 child)
How bad would a hangover have to be, to match the worst geocities pages?
How much would you have to drink, to rid yourself of the after-images (retina burn!)?
Experimentation required!
To bended elbow!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:41PM
Maybe the charm of geocities went away when everybody realized they could never compete with 2G1C or goatse or /b/ so they just gave up.