Re: Geocities Closing (Nostalgia On)
Zedex Dragon
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:47 -0700, Dalboz Dragon <m...@there.com> wrote:
> Too late to view the pages now.
There's always the wayback machine: http://www.archive.org/
Saint George's Dragon
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:47 -0700, Dalboz Dragon <m...@there.com> wrote:
> >the last vestiges of the '90s internet are dying. Usenet is still
> >around, but it also seems to depend on the group. As was said before,
<snicker snack>
> Somehow I don't feel any sorrow about them shutting down.
I see your point, I'm almost tempted to put up a webpage full of
errors, frames and annoying ads as a memorial.
Anyway, I guess geocities was the biggest free webhost at one time
maybe, but its not like there are not still others to make sure anyone
with an internet connection can get a homepage, if they so desire.
Presumably one factor in the closure is that other webservices are now
doing much of the same work (such as blog sites and social networking
things). Although many such services are likely to be as ephemeral as
geocities.
I've maintained all my websites on free student accounts and never had
to deal with the whole ads thing (or paying extra for web space),
personally I like the control of having my own webpage even if it sees
limited use.
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Polychromic
<allan...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>Polychromic Dragon the Unparalleled Pugnacious Pusher of Virtue wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:47 -0700, Dalboz Dragon <m...@there.com> wrote:
>> >I read today that Geocities is finally shutting down. It looks like
>> >the last vestiges of the '90s internet are dying. Usenet is still
>> >around, but it also seems to depend on the group. As was said before,
><snicker snack>
>> Somehow I don't feel any sorrow about them shutting down.
>
>I see your point, I'm almost tempted to put up a webpage full of
>errors, frames and annoying ads as a memorial.
The popular geeky webcomic xkcd did just that. Kinda funny. Kinda
sickening.
>Anyway, I guess geocities was the biggest free webhost at one time
>maybe, but its not like there are not still others to make sure anyone
>with an internet connection can get a homepage, if they so desire.
>Presumably one factor in the closure is that other webservices are now
>doing much of the same work (such as blog sites and social networking
>things). Although many such services are likely to be as ephemeral as
>geocities.
>
>I've maintained all my websites on free student accounts and never had
>to deal with the whole ads thing (or paying extra for web space),
>personally I like the control of having my own webpage even if it sees
>limited use.
I was using GooglePages for a while but I think they discontinued that or
something. I never did follow up to see what the "non beta" version of
GooglePages turned out to be. Hmmm...
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Saint George's Dragon
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT), "Saint George's Dragon"
> <allan_ol...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >Polychromic Dragon the Unparalleled Pugnacious Pusher of Virtue wrote:
> >I see your point, I'm almost tempted to put up a webpage full of
> >errors, frames and annoying ads as a memorial.
> The popular geeky webcomic xkcd did just that. Kinda funny. Kinda
> sickening.
To be honest I think I sort of heard mention of that when I made my
suggestion.
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erimess
>
>I've maintained all my websites on free student accounts and never had
>to deal with the whole ads thing (or paying extra for web space),
>personally I like the control of having my own webpage even if it sees
>limited use.
Me too. I'm grandfathered into free web space with my old dial up
account. Before I switched it over to DSL, I created 2 more IDs (for
a total of 4), which grandfathered me into 4 "sets" of web space. I
do wonder when this will go by the wayside, but both my (paying) email
and my (paying) news server have web space. I have just not messed
with them as yet. I should do that since I don't trust what I have.
Actually, the DSL had free web space provided by Geocities. I wonder
what will happen with that. I've gotten no notice about it, but that
figures. They didn't even notify me when my rates went up - why
should they notify me about disappearing free web space? (I didn't
get a notice about them dropping usenet either. I believe I saw that
on here.)
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Claus Dragon
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT), "Saint George's Dragon"
>
>
> >I've maintained all my websites on free student accounts and never had
> >to deal with the whole ads thing (or paying extra for web space),
> >personally I like the control of having my own webpage even if it sees
> >limited use.
>
> Me too. I'm grandfathered into free web space with my old dial up
> account. Before I switched it over to DSL, I created 2 more IDs (for
> a total of 4), which grandfathered me into 4 "sets" of web space. I
> do wonder when this will go by the wayside, but both my (paying) email
> and my (paying) news server have web space. I have just not messed
> with them as yet. I should do that since I don't trust what I have.
>
> Actually, the DSL had free web space provided by Geocities. I wonder
> what will happen with that. I've gotten no notice about it, but that
> figures. They didn't even notify me when my rates went up - why
> should they notify me about disappearing free web space? (I didn't
> get a notice about them dropping usenet either. I believe I saw that
> on here.)
I never used free webspace.
Either uni or paid space for me. That is how it will stay, but I think
I will close down my website anyhow.
Does any Game-Creating Team need some webspace?