Friday February 10, 2012 5:48 AM AEST

Geocities is dead...

Geocities is dead...

... long live Geocities!

It's kinda sad, kinda expected, and probably going to make the internet a slightly classier place - Geocities is, after fifteen years of shitty animated gifs, illegible text and midi music, closing up its doors to new sign ups.

The site will remain active for a while, but the whole thing will shut down later this year. The free webhosting service was a staple of the early to middle internet years, and in honour of the site's long and mediocre service, we have only this to say.

SO LONG GEOCITIEZ, U WERE A A LOT OF FUUN, aND WELL MISS YOU LOTz!!11!

 
 
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11 Comments
thesorehead
Apr 24, 2009 1:24 PM
Quick! Better start archiving those furry fan-art and fanfics!
SquallStrife
Apr 24, 2009 1:31 PM
Hmm, a program I wrote is hosted on there...
LordBug
Apr 24, 2009 2:11 PM
*confetti*
:D
smadge1
Apr 24, 2009 2:22 PM
My first website was on Geocites, i basically consisted of shitty animated gifs, illegible text and midi music.

I coded it in the newfangled HTML in MSDOS edit.com on an XT, and uploaded it to Geocities at TAFE in 1997. The gif and the midi file were both hot-linked.
waylander232
Apr 24, 2009 2:24 PM
Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Which old witch?
The wicked witch...
17
Apr 24, 2009 4:29 PM
Smadge your comment should be on Geocities wiki. It captures its essence so beautifuly, yet so accurately.

Lol at hot-linking especially.
N3M3SiS
Apr 24, 2009 5:01 PM
Same here, smadge!

First ever website (SpAnK's PhUnHoUsE) featured on that fine service and im quite happy to have that stricken from the interweb-record ;)

Rest in poorly coded pain, Geocities.
Hawkeye
Apr 24, 2009 5:23 PM
Were the letters different colours? I hope so.
hello0011
Apr 24, 2009 9:02 PM
yay less shit on the internet.... now to shut down a couple of those pron sites.. any helpers?
Athiril
Apr 24, 2009 9:24 PM
I remember downloading Age of Empires maps and the such from Geocities
flexx
Apr 29, 2009 8:29 AM
What theres porn on the interweb
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