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Geocities is closing

Postby rocklobster » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:17 am

After such a long time, Geocities is closing its doors. I was wondering if anyone else here has heard the news. I'm actually surprised and appalled at this.
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Postby Mr. Rogers » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:34 am

I always thought they had too much advertising anyway
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:36 am

Yeah, I heard about this a while back. It's kind of sad, but I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles. Apparently they're going to leave all the old sites online though.
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Postby Etoh*the*Greato » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:12 am

Oh, I'm sure it's cookies crumbs will remain in your cookies bin for years to come. Every computer made before 1999 will carry a little piece of Geocities with them... always...
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Postby Bobtheduck » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:54 pm

I had a Geocities site that I never took down... Whatever. I have a paid domain now. If only I had access to Dreamweaver still to edit it properly, instead of having to do it manually.
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Postby Lady Kenshin » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:19 pm

O_o really? That's too bad.
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Postby Roy Mustang » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:54 pm

Knew about it on the day that Yahoo announced it, which was April 23, 2009.

I hate to see people use their jobs as you know they will cut back.

But on the other hand, Geocities wasn't the best free web hosting site out there as well and they did have too much advertising.

First class that I took for Web design major was to make a web site, but use three free web sites and Geocitles was one of them. There was not one person on that class that like Geocitles and how it was set up. We had more errors in our web sites with Geocitles, then the other two that we used.


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Postby Souba » Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:55 pm

[color="RoyalBlue"]I'll miss Geocities, it was the first free site I ever used. Sure it had it's kinks, but it was simple for me to use. Ah well, goodbye Geo..
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Postby Sanji07 » Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:28 pm

This is the first I've heard of this. I'm surprised too. O_o
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Postby Scarecrow » Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:11 pm

Surprised? Yes. Sad? No... I hated geocites. I didn't even visit geocite sites cause of all the rediculous advertising and 98% of geocites websites were garbage and not worth viewing anyway. So.. now when is angelfire gonna close? I thought that was worse than geocities....
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:50 pm

[font="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="4"][color="RoyalBlue"]Dang...my first webpage was on Geocities, though I hardly ever updated it and attempts to bring it back bigger and brighter than ever failed miserably...it sucks that they're shutting down...[/color][/SIZE][/font]
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