Comments on: RIP Geocities (and Hamsterdance)

By: Geocities a la 2010 | And Far Away

Geocities a la 2010 | And Far Away — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:44:37 +0000

[...] as the year that saw Geocities give away comes to an end, I was pleasantly pleased with myself when I stumbled upon a site that might have [...]

By: Roba

Roba — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:23:57 +0000

Yanone, yeah, a lot of us had our first websites on Geocities. I remember it was sooooo hard for me to figure out what the hell to do at first! :)

By: Roba

Roba — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:22:25 +0000

Mesh, yeah, I already downloaded the files a few days ago. Not really very important links though, I doubt I’m even going to update them on my blog… If you need anything though that you didn’t manage to get, I think the internet archives already have a pretty big collection.

Zeid, cause it’s 10 terrabytes of data, and in the economic crisis world of today, it’s taking a lot of money to maintain.

Yaseen, sara7a ma3ak 7a2. The bandwidth thing was soooooooooo annoying!

Craig, tell me about. I’m hating Yahoo for this business decision. They could have sucked it up and braved the losses for the sake of the greater good. I see the same thing happening to Flickr in a decade or so, with Yahoo.

Yasmin, indeed :(

Taher, tell me about it. Yalla, next step, WordPress :P

By: Taher

Taher — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:58:28 +0000

Yes.. I just downloaded and backed up my two sites there..
Such a shame.. tsk*

By: yasmin Hamied

yasmin Hamied — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:03:49 +0000

I had my first website on Geocities as well, I deleted it long ago. I remember how quick the bandwidth went away :-)

aah, those days… RIP Geocities.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:35:35 +0000

I was never on Geocites but I feel your pain! I first went “online” on public BBS’s back in the 1980s. Those all went down in the early 1990s. My first “online service” was Prodigy, that went down… I don’t even know when, but I haven’t even heard anyone speak of it in forever. And then I was on Compuserve, which got killed by the advent of widespread internet access. I see you were using a hotmail account on geocites… my first web email account was hotmail. Then Microsft bought it and made everyone sign up for MSN to access it. I declined. I’ll never know how many unread emails are in that email account!

Anyway, in this day and age when storage is so cheap it seems almost criminal to just pull the plug… on anything, really. So much exists on the internet, and no place else except in human memory.

By: yanone

yanone — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:16:38 +0000

hi roba

my first website was also on geocities, maybe around ’97. i don’t even remember its name.

By: Yaseen

Yaseen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:32:21 +0000

I won’t miss geocities, my page kept running out of bandwidth :(

By: zeid

zeid — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:06:59 +0000

i dont know geocities but y do they want to delete it? do they even delete old websites? who does that? and why? no more space on their server or what??

sorry if my questions seem stupid to u

By: Mesh

Mesh — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:57:29 +0000

hmm, sounds your are going to miss some bytes, you can download WEBZIP to download your website for your personal archiving ..

Penalty of evolving technologies.. sometimes results in an aging ones that is hard to maintain, ending them in the Byte Bye Hell.

well, while i was trying to figure it out after downloading the program, seems yahoo done it already.. hopefully you were able to archive it..