Re: Geocities Closing (Nostalgia On)

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT), "Saint George's Dragon"
<allan_olley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Polychromic Dragon the Unparalleled Pugnacious Pusher of Virtue wrote:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:47 -0700, Dalboz Dragon <m...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I read today that Geocities is finally shutting down. It looks like
the last vestiges of the '90s internet are dying. Usenet is still
around, but it also seems to depend on the group. As was said before,
<snicker snack>
Somehow I don't feel any sorrow about them shutting down.

I see your point, I'm almost tempted to put up a webpage full of
errors, frames and annoying ads as a memorial.

The popular geeky webcomic xkcd did just that. Kinda funny. Kinda
sickening.

Anyway, I guess geocities was the biggest free webhost at one time
maybe, but its not like there are not still others to make sure anyone
with an internet connection can get a homepage, if they so desire.
Presumably one factor in the closure is that other webservices are now
doing much of the same work (such as blog sites and social networking
things). Although many such services are likely to be as ephemeral as
geocities.

I've maintained all my websites on free student accounts and never had
to deal with the whole ads thing (or paying extra for web space),
personally I like the control of having my own webpage even if it sees
limited use.

I was using GooglePages for a while but I think they discontinued that or
something. I never did follow up to see what the "non beta" version of
GooglePages turned out to be. Hmmm...
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