Geocities

[passer-by]

I found this information on another site and I thought members who use it to host their AGS games and walk-throughs should have a look at this page

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html

[monkey0506]

Good riddance if you ask me. I've honestly detested Geocities for a long time now. Granted it does provide an inconvenience to anyone actually using it for hosting, but there are honestly much better free hosts out there.

[passer-by]

Good riddance if you ask me. I've honestly detested Geocities for a long time now. Granted it does provide an inconvenience to anyone actually using it for hosting, but there are honestly much better free hosts out there.

I partly agree.
As for me, I took the easy way and use yahoo small business for my normal files and pages I use for work and such.
But I have my AGS files hosted on a free Geocities place and now I must move them.

I thought the earlier people know it the better. I found out by sheer luck myself.

[Gregjazz]

Geocities still exists? It was bad 10 years ago...

[Vince Twelve]

Ah, good ol' Geoshitties.  My first website was a Geocities website (it was an X-Files episode recap site), and even then (this must've been 1996) I remember it as being a hive of scum and villainy.

It was also where I started building my first adventure game!  It was really more of an illustrated choose your own adventure game.  Or at least it was going to be, but I never finished it.  I think I forgot the password to the page or something.

I googled it recently, and was surprised that it still actually exists.  Here it is:

Virtual Utopia

Waring: LENS FLARE!

[Ghost]

Waring: LENS FLARE!

Me eyes! Me EYES!!!!
But nice concept, all the same- though I dare say you greatly improved since then.

[Trent R]

Uggg... The reason I hate Geocites the most is the ridiculous banner on the side. I don't mind top or bottom adds, I often scroll right past them, but the side one feels so intrusive.


~Trent
PS-LENZ FLARE5 F0EVA!!!!

[Babar]

Hahaha...wow.

Say what you will about GeoCities, it is the one service that didn't actually close up my webpage, even after....10 years?

I wonder if there is anything worthwhile that I should back-up?

http://www.geocities.com/babarkemal/

[monkey0506]

Hey Babar, I know it's not quite 10 years, but I have had an account open with Brinkster since 26 January 2003 (and another since 20 December 2003). They actually stopped offering free hosting years ago. So I'd say that's at least equally impressive that even after all this time my accounts still exist. Most free hosts would have undergone some type of server change or some-such that would result in the loss of my information at least. Not to mention that the way it usually works is that the host removing the "free*" option usually means the host removing the "free*" accounts (actually exactly like Yahoo! is now doing).

And to clarify, I understand completely the inconvenience it causes to people actually using the service (for whatever reason) who will now have to relocate their data or lose it (FOH-EVAA!). The side-banner was actually one of my great grievances with Geocities...and they never did anything to rectify it. So I hold by what I said.

[Paper Carnival]

now that you mention it, I DO have some ancient stuff hidden somewhere on a couple of Geocities accounts, including old unfinished midis and FFVII savegames (that I never got to finish, but someday MAYBE I will). I wonder if it's worth the trouble backing up all that stuff if I haven't needed them for years.

Geocities used to make sense, but today I wonder why.

[Vince Twelve]

No Trent, NO!  My eyes!!!

[Ponch]

So... much... lens flare....

In a strange way, I'm sort of sad to see GeoCities go. Over Christmas, I managed to shock my girlfriend's niece with GeoCities.

She was complaining about how outdated some website looked to her (from the perspective of a fifteen year old, mind you). So I loaded up my friend's old GeoCities page and watched her sanity melt in a very Lovecraftian way.

Her poor fragile mind buckled under the strain of all the spinning gifs, the forever opening and closing mailboxes, and, of course, the devilish "under construction" reminders that littered the still-unfinished page.

That is not dead which can eternal lie (on a GeoCities server, somewhere in Ryleh, of course).

[Stupot]

I've dabbled with Geocities in the recent past but it's nothing worth keeping.  It was the first and only time I dabbled in CSS (which was either successful or unsuccessful depending on the size of your monitor).

Like Vince I also ran an X-Files webpage, on spree.com (anyone remember that?) and also an 'Add to a Story' site using stormpages... (with all this experience you'd think I would actually be able to make websites now, but I still can't); Freewebs hosts my lastest stale project.

[Pumaman]

It's easy to say "good riddance" to Geocities, but there are a hell of a lot of websites hosted there, whose authors have long since forgotten them and will not be backing them up or moving them elsewhere.

And so if they shut it down, we'll lose quite a significant chunk of the old-school internet forever...

[Gilbert]

Well, we still have web.archive.org. Unfortunately, more and more sites use the Robot.txt to prevent us from viewing valuable historical information (including the infamous original Dosuser page and its forums  :'().

[passer-by]

whose authors have long since forgotten them and will not be backing them up or moving them elsewhere.

That's why I posted it, to be honest. I would be one of those users if I hadn't seen that info.

[ThreeOhFour]

Holy crap Vince, that's the biggest font ever  :o.

I zoomed out to 50% and still had to scroll horizontally to read long words like 'shouldn't' 

Also, I am Babar's slave. I must obey Babar. Babar is my ruler.

[bicilotti]

Also, I am Babar's slave. I must obey Babar. Babar is my ruler.

Gah, that piece of bab's voice is priceless. I'll have to find a way to save it directly here.

[Trent R]

Check it!

“In honor of WebRing” or something, we are now offering to the first 1000 GeoCities users who sign up TWO YEARS of a completely free DreamHost account (including domain registration)!

No strings attached.

All you have to do is verify you are an existing GeoCities customer by creating a page on your GeoCities account (or editing an existing page) to have the phrase “I’m off to DreamHost!” on it!

Then when you signup for us, simply put the full url to that page as your “promotional code” and you’ll get a 2 year plan (normally $214.80) free!

And we promise to never shut down.

So for you GeoCities owners, just add the phrase to your homepage and you'll get 2 years of hosting for free!

~Trent

[Edit]: You could still try this, but I've heard that it might be dead... They probably already got 1000 users. If you're still interested, the sign-up link is here(no credit card required if you do this deal, you'll put the promo code in at the very bottom).


~Trent