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RIP GeoCities many an Imer started in your dimly lit streets.

by getsmartt
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It looks like today was the official end of GeoCities.

With millions of visitors and tons of traffic you would have thought Yahoo would have found some way to keep it around?

I remember back in the day that it was not totally unfashiopnable to actually own a GeoCity site or two.

I can actually say that I even made a buck or two on those dimly lit streets

RIP
#dimly #geocities #imer #lit #rip #started #streets
  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    Wow after all these years .... I never did make a geocities one but I did make several tripod sites like 14 years ago ... Free Website Hosting - Tripod free website templates to make your own free website - I see they still kicking, have not visited that site in many many years.

    James
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    I made my first Geocities website when I was 13, I think (I'm 24 now). I also had tripod, and...I can't remember the name of the other free site builder back then! Fortune City something?

    I even tried to sell some of my old books on there back then, and dabbled in eBay selling. I guess I always had it in me

    Sorry to hear that Geocities is gone
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    • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
      Originally Posted by Jenn Dize View Post



      I made my first Geocities website when I was 13, I think (I'm 24 now). I also had tripod, and...I can't remember the name of the other free site builder back then! Fortune City something?

      I even tried to sell some of my old books on there back then, and dabbled in eBay selling. I guess I always had it in me

      Sorry to hear that Geocities is gone
      LOL yeah FortuneCity - I never could get my dialup and browser to work right with that site ... If I recall they had a black themed site going on ..

      James
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    I started my first website on GeoCities, back in the day... it was devoted to the Hellraiser movies.

    It will be missed, in its own way.
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  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    Yep Tripod was another one, I was trying to think of that one. At one time there must have been 5 or 6 big sites where you could get a little bit of web realestate for free.

    I can even remember maxing out my amount of space on one and linking rest of my site to another free provider.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    James,
    There used to be one called Trailer Park or Trailer Trash or something, they tried to copy GeoCities with street names and lot numbers and all .. You remember the name ??

    James

    P.S. Oh the good old days with the free website wars ...lol They started giving more space, adding more features ...
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    My friends and family call me Geo. They were quite impressed with my GeoCities sites. I also did homestead a bit, not to mention AOL HomeTown Those were the days

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    • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
      Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

      My friends and family call me Geo. They were quite impressed with my GeoCities sites. I also did homestead a bit, not to mention AOL HomeTown Those were the days

      George wright
      George,
      Yeah that is when AOL had 30 Million users and Steve Case was still the president... Before they started buying up everything.. See what all our hard earned money paid for ..lol

      James
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  • Profile picture of the author Amanda_Davis
    Anyone remember Fortune City?

    When they first started up (1994 or something) they actually sent you a book in the mail about the "city" you just joined.

    Those were the days!
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  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    nope, can't remember the name of that one but a web search brought up another one - AngelFire, which apparently shared the same back-end software as Tripond
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    • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
      Originally Posted by getsmartt View Post

      nope, can't remember the name of that one but a web search brought up another one - AngelFire, which apparently shared the same back-end software as Tripond
      Yeah I think Tripod bought AngleFire out shortly after they launched...

      James
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  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    Here is another blast from the past for you....

    Does anyone remember SixDegrees.com...it was kind of the Facebook/Myspace of the late 90's seems to have died in 01 or so
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    • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
      Originally Posted by getsmartt View Post

      Here is another blast from the past for you....

      Does anyone remember SixDegrees.com...it was kind of the Facebook/Myspace of the late 90's seems to have died in 01 or so

      I'm shocked classmates.com hasn't combusted yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    I had a few websites on angelfire, mainly websites for the people i played computer games with lol.

    Also, here is an ä for your signature, getsmartt
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  • Profile picture of the author cscarpero
    Good ol GeoCities. I had some sites on there. And Tripod. Learned HTML and coded them by hand cause their editors sucked. Ahh...the good ol days!
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  • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
    LOL I remember Geocities, Tripod, Homestead etc. Had sites on all of em. Makes me feel kinda old LOL.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis-White
    I had a few Geocities, when I was like 14-15 I also had a few homestead sites too LOL good times
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  • Profile picture of the author francof
    My first website was on geocities too, had some on angelfire also
    Good ol' days. starting to feel old now
    Weird that they would just let it die. Why not sell it off or something at least.
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  • Profile picture of the author l23bc
    great post i remmeber them all like um,yesterday here is a list of all of them

    godaddy network (now just godaddy domain)
    firefox.net (which was bought by msn) was like facebook a little bit mixed with msn messenger
    geocities.com
    angelville.com
    homestead.com
    angelfire.com
    tripod.com
    lycos.com
    befree.ca
    acradianrefugee.org

    just wondering if anyone remember any other goods sites back in the day, feel so old now haha

    Just for fun i had to add this for memories...hope it is okay but its my way to say r i p geocities
    http://www.webhamster.com/
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