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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: 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.