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from the nostalgia-ain't-what-it-used-to-be dept.
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:27PM (2 children)
I remember another Japanese hosting taken by GC in early 2000s, and they have been shut down earlier, around 2012, after Yahoo killed original Geocities, most of people were thinking that Japanese Geocities will be next right away.
Nevertheless, these nasty colours from beginner's websites could be turned off with browser presets, now we have a light-gray text on white background and no idea how to make it readable. Only ads have bright, flashing colours, much worse than a few marquees here and there.
Fortunately, for a general mental hygiene not much should be read in modern Internet, maybe except some news, practical knowledge is in decline now and for most of it I have to visit Internet Archive.
Anyone got similar thing, like spending lots of time in IA's archived pages to find a detailed solution to a specific problem because modern Internet gives a solution like "buy a new PC"?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:45PM (1 child)
The early internet was make/remake and share how (and how not to..)
These days, the "share" has moved to "what I ate/cooked/wore/didn't wear/went"
Where is the make/build/repair?
Maybe sciety as a whole is just thowing away and replacing.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:06PM
We are treating workers increasingly the same way: as cheap and disposable.
The use it and toss it mentality is all-pervasive.