Goodbye Geocities
 

It's a mercy killing, really. But still, I will miss it and its awfulness. I can't imagine college life without webrings, Under Construction gifs and missing banner ad images.

For a bit of nostalgia, go to http://www.xkcd.com today.

http://www/geocities.com/~rudyfan was the host to my first site. The first iteration of the site was ugly as sin, and thankfully, does not survive on any internet archive. Then I hand coded the site, it was still full of HTML errors, but it was mine.

I was never a webring person, and avoided the ads by paying the nominal fees, it was a great way to start.

Awww... Geocities...

RIP Geocities: A part of the original internet.

We shall never forget our roots.

Just the other day I had the realization that in many ways Digg has come to fill the niche once served by webrings (in a vastly superior form, of course).

Oops, screwed up own url :blush:

It's still there, for the moment, what's left of it.

http://www.geocities.com/~rudyfan/

Good riddance.

Dammit, I missed the (presumably) one-day xkcd/Geocities makeover. Is it archived anywhere?

My favorite memory of Geocities--I never had a site there myself--was hand-coding and uploading Adrienne Krock's first "baby pool" page, to Geocities, from Innoventions.

Here's a flickr set with screenshots, but it doesn't quite do it justice w/out the animated gifs and the jokes hidden in the source code.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/szznax/4046760725/

Well if there was ever any question about your level of geekness there isn't anymore.