Reminder: Geocities closing down in October

category: general [glöplog]

This is a reminder that Yahoo will pull the plug on Geocities in October. I'm sure that there are several interesting scene-related sites hosted there so it might be a good idea to mirror them before they're shut down :)

I've read about a project that aims to download all of Geocities before closing but there is no guarantee that they will do that in a manner that makes said sites available in a manner that is easy to access.

added on the 2009-08-17 23:48:18 by El Topo

Geocities still exists?

added on the 2009-08-17 23:48:50 by Claw

yup, for a little while longer

added on the 2009-08-17 23:50:08 by El Topo

This is happening years too late...

added on the 2009-08-17 23:53:48 by raer

Entries in the group-list with geocities sites...

*Masters Using Dator* geocities
.nUn. geocities
42Bastian geocities
AEG Soft geocities
AM geocities
avendesora geocities
Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club [CCCC] geocities
Cybertronic Studios [CtS] geocities
Dirty Minds geocities
EnToXiCoDeD [ETX] geocities
Evil (USA) geocities
Front 0 geocities
Infinite Darkness geocities
Knockout geocities
kyo geocities
Masters Using Dator geocities
no carrier geocities
Rampar USA geocities
silence geocities
the experience geocities
Trolling With Code! [TWC] geocities

added on the 2009-08-18 00:40:18 by El Topo

People who have a Geocities site in 2009 don't deserve to be on the internet.

added on the 2009-08-18 00:57:26 by okkie

given that it was already frowned upon back in '99 :)

added on the 2009-08-18 01:05:39 by superplek

Also that whole list seems indeed highly important. Since about half of those sites don't exist any more or haven't been updated since the late nineties.

A loss for the world indeed :D

added on the 2009-08-18 01:13:04 by okkie

i think it's not fair to be cynical here, no matter how behind-the-moon one might be to have a geocities, it's important to save the group releases that might be only on there, for scene history's sake.

added on the 2009-08-18 01:17:47 by dipswitch

Ok, this is gold!!!

Quote:

Our Next Meeting is August 16th at the Retirement Community.

Damn son :D

added on the 2009-08-18 01:22:49 by okkie

okkie: Yes, quite a few 404's there...

But there were some sites still up with zip's to download. Just thought I'd say something before they're nuked :)

added on the 2009-08-18 01:41:05 by El Topo

well damn, i guess it's time to move to angelfire jk ;x

added on the 2009-08-18 01:53:37 by hexen

SELECT id FROM prods WHERE url == "%geocities%";
?

added on the 2009-08-18 02:17:35 by rmeht

OMG?! That's still updated? :D
Gotta love the webdesign.

added on the 2009-08-18 04:10:12 by xernobyl

Quote:

well damn, i guess it's time to move to angelfire jk ;x

Nah, fortunecity :P
Seriously though, a page I put up at fortunecity for a school project in 1998 or 1999 is still online even though I've never logged in to my account since then, so I guess I shouldn't rag too much on them.

As for geocities, I don't remember having visited a site hosted by them in years, except for the odd japanese ones, so it won't be any loss when they go away.

added on the 2009-08-18 06:44:26 by mic