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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: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 03 2018, @11:46AM (10 children)
1) Fairly serious question, where do people go to demonstrate beginner level knowledge of stuff like HTML and CSS in public now for free? Essentially, whats the "cool free webhost" for very junior front end devs in 2018? I'm pretty far away from that both chronologically and in knowledge so I donno, genuinely interested.
2) Supposedly geocities was the third most popular site on the net at one point; must have been a heck of a lot of pr0n up there, but I don't remember using geocities, basically at all. You'd think I would have known where the pr0n is at.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @12:07PM (2 children)
1) File - > Open File... -> select your index.html.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:37PM (1 child)
Uh yeah, but thats not very public. In the "old days" you could tell coworkers and competitors to go look at your DS9 fan club home page on geocities.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:26PM
In short, you can use something like github to host the files or get some random free webhost; which still exist. Something like: https://sites.google.com/ [google.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Interesting) by deimtee on Wednesday October 03 2018, @12:23PM (2 children)
I miss it. The fonts and blinking and colours weren't great, but It was early enough in the web that people had to have some smarts to put up a page. They mostly had something to say, and there was a lot of valuable information lost when it was wiped. It was a new frontier, and was everyone was enthusiastic.
eg. I still remember one site I used that had painstakingly detailed the process that you needed to go through to take the cover of the inside of a 1970's Datsun 260C door without breaking the hidden clips. I think the guy had broken his, and made the page just so no-one else had to. Saved me breaking mine. (If you ever read this, whoever you were, Thanks Mate!)
regarding 2)
I don't think that there was a lot of pron, many people put their real names up. There were other sites where you could watch a boobs.bmp slowly fill in from the top down.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:05PM (1 child)
If it was a .bmp it would fill from the bottom up /pedant
(Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:16PM
Thats for upskirt.bmp to build anticipation. boobs.jpg displayed from top down for similar reasons. I never browsed /b/ on an old fashioned modem so I donno about the technical rendering details of chick_with_horse.gif or whatever.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:10PM (1 child)
Are people even required to (or as a hobby) demonstrate beginner HTML and CSS knowledge anymore? I'm not trolling with that but seriously wondering if anyone actually messes with that in an age of Wordpress / Wix / Weebly on a beginner level. Or is that stuff reserved to theme designers.
This list [hostingadvice.com] might be a place to start, down below the "almost free" entries which headline their list. 5gbfree.com and Freehostia seem likely places.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:39AM
Considering how most software and websites function, I'm pretty sure they have maximum standards of competency. It used to be that the user getting work done was at least somewhere on the list of consideration, but these days the UI designs of most software products seem designed to ensure that you never get anything done without having to pay for support fixing what should have worked in the first place.
I shouldn't have to read a book or take a class for every piece of software out there because some jack ass feels the need to ribbonify or otherwise smarten up a UI. The UI is something that should never really be a focus of attention as it's there to help work on the focus of attention.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:17PM
https://neocities.org/ [neocities.org] is great, and they are big fans of IPFS as well.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:17PM
You can create a webpage on github. https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/web-development [codecademy.com] I ended up doing quite a few free codecademy courses and one of them showed how to sync html to a github repository. It's very much public and easy to share a link. Though, a lot of people abandoned it for I think it was gitlab, when Microsoft took over. They'd still have to download the repository and open the file locally.
I used to use the public folder in my dropbox to "host" a website, but now it doesn't display correctly when you link someone to the file. It just shows the basic html, no css, etc.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"