The plight of our cities....
For those of use who started out long ago, this seems so sad...
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decibel.places posted this at 04:12 — 24th April 2009.
He has: 1,494 posts
Joined: Jun 2008
ahh - thanks for the heads up
netsperience 1.0 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/6131
13 years of free hosting!
Megan posted this at 14:29 — 24th April 2009.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
Nothing too exciting here:
http://geocities.com/Colosseum/Bench/7083/
I have an even older site on tripod.
decibel.places posted this at 17:43 — 26th April 2009.
He has: 1,494 posts
Joined: Jun 2008
haha - we get a page moved screen (with lots of purple - I like purple
) and then it redirects to "page not found"
Yahoo will do everybody a favor when it is gone
On netsperience 1.0, however, I have many DHTML/JavaScript apps and widgets I developed over about 10 years. I guess I'll have to move them to my updated netsperience 2.x site.
But one of my early pages on archive.org does not display except for lots of blue (I also like blue
), I think it's because GeoCities changed their addon scripts many times (and many times I had to tshoot my own scripts because of that). It's not my earliest page, it is still after Yahoo bought GeoCities.
My earliest GeoCities page I have been able to find is a placeholder page with meta refresh for a sort of slideshow effect that I retired on June 2, 1997. It ends up on my résumé url that I have updated.
Back then, I didn't have internet access, so I went to the library to go online. (Heck, I had an IBM PS/2 with a 6MB hard drive and 256KB of RAM running Windows 3.1.1 - yes, remember "Windows for Workgroups"?!) Netscape 2 which was used by the NYPL was unable to upload binary files/images, so I arranged to email them uuencoded to another member who would upload them for me, but the NYPL upgraded to NS3 just in time.
msbenchmark posted this at 20:35 — 27th April 2009.
They have: 5 posts
Joined: Apr 2009
I hope all those site owners were able to save their content before it switched over to archive mode, in case any information was lost.
I never used geocites, but I remember thinking about it at some point, because it was free and easy to use. That takes me back a long time, it must have been over ten years ago, which seem like ages on the web.
Shaggy posted this at 23:13 — 28th April 2009.
They have: 121 posts
Joined: Dec 2008
Jason Scott and "The Archive Team" are busy downloading as much of GeoCities as they can get their hands on, by the sounds of it!
http://ascii.textfiles.com/
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