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A Piece of the Internet Is Dying

April 23rd, 2009
Jonathan Hardesty

Just read about Geocities and it’s iminent demise. As someone who learned most of his HTML and even started his webcomic through the service, it kind of pains me to see the service go. I remember tweaking my Geocities site during study hall in high school while the others around me tried to either do their homework or tried to circumvent the firewall (our study hall “teacher”) to watch hentai.

Granted, it makes sense that the service is on the way out given the current state of the social web. But I definitely feel the need for a moment of silence for the place where I started on the web.

Okay.

Do any of you remember your old Geocities sites and or the urls that you had? Please share if you do! Or did you use any of the competing services? I remember having accounts with Geocities, Homestead, and Angelfire. Ahhh, those were the days. Web 1.0

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  • Aww, I had no idea! That makes me nostalgic. I used had a geocities website for a few years. It served absolutely no purpose except for being a place for me to post my bad art, bad poetry, and quotes pages from my favourite TV shows. Oh, middle school!
  • Yeah. My geocities site has been dead for a long time, and I've sadly forgotten the "neighborhood" I was in. *sigh* I had so much bad art on there it was ridiculous. I think I even used Netscape to do my internetting back then, too.
  • So...right after I typed that comment i googled my old username and "geocities" and found a Russian>English translation forum where someone referenced an idiom in one of my poems and provided a link to my old website. Of course the link is dead, but I still find it hilarious and thought I'd mention it.
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