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HorseShit 04-23-2009 04:22 PM

Goodbye Geocities
 
So long my old friend from 1995

StuartD 04-23-2009 04:33 PM

http://geocities.yahoo.com/

Indeed. Was long over due in my opinion. It had it's day, was huge.

Sands 04-23-2009 04:36 PM

Noooooooooooo! Where will I store my flaming skull .gifs now!?!?

polish_aristocrat 04-23-2009 04:37 PM

how about terra.es?

JamesK 04-23-2009 04:37 PM

That's where I made my first porn site :(

May you rest in peace, dear Geocities.

$5 submissions 04-23-2009 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat (Post 15782259)
how about terra.es?

Old school memories of TGP galleries hosted on terra.es to get around high hosting costs back in the day

Fap 04-23-2009 04:38 PM

I preferred angelfire :)

$5 submissions 04-23-2009 04:39 PM

Congrats to the REAL WINNER: Dudes who sold Geocities to Yahoo for $3.65 BILLION in stock plus $1 BILLION in OPTIONS. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-220817.html

LOLz

collegeboobies 04-23-2009 04:43 PM

Just makes you realize never to trust anything free to be around

d-null 04-23-2009 04:43 PM

remember all those free dial up accounts too that everyone figured advertising would pay for everything?

Nautilus 04-23-2009 04:45 PM

So they haven't found the way to monetize it? Looks like our joke of an industry is not the only one lacking good fresh ideas.

I may understand their reasoning, but still - just go ahead and shut down an Alexa top 100 site... must feel a lot of pain.

Cyber Fucker 04-23-2009 04:47 PM

R.I.P Geocities :(

d-null 04-23-2009 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nautilus (Post 15782288)
So they haven't found the way to monetize it? Looks like our joke of an industry is not the only one lacking good fresh ideas.

I may understand their reasoning, but still - just go ahead and shut down an Alexa top 100 site... must feel a lot of pain.

think of all those old geocities sites that are sitting high in the google serps too, will be gone overnight with no way to salvage them

Furious_Male 04-23-2009 04:55 PM

I never really used geocities. I put together my first site with Tripod. They seem to still be around in some form.

seeandsee 04-23-2009 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by $5 submissions (Post 15782267)
Congrats to the REAL WINNER: Dudes who sold Geocities to Yahoo for $3.65 BILLION in stock plus $1 BILLION in OPTIONS. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-220817.html

LOLz

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

BradM 04-23-2009 04:56 PM

It's where I got my start online. What a sad day.

SBJ 04-23-2009 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by banthis (Post 15782264)
I preferred angelfire :)

started out with angelfire but moved to geocities..

so sad I learned html with geocities with my first site.. lol a Star Wars fan page that got 10 hits a week and I thought that was the shit in 1998 :1orglaugh

XPays 04-23-2009 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by $5 submissions (Post 15782267)
Congrats to the REAL WINNER: Dudes who sold Geocities to Yahoo for $3.65 BILLION in stock plus $1 BILLION in OPTIONS. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-220817.html

LOLz

^ indeed

HorseShit 04-23-2009 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d-null (Post 15782301)
think of all those old geocities sites that are sitting high in the google serps too, will be gone overnight with no way to salvage them

actually, people will get the option to sign up for 5.95 hosting a month or whatever to keep their current pages afaik

madawgz 04-23-2009 05:27 PM

aww you will be missed geocities :)

Sosa 04-23-2009 05:29 PM

back where I had my first website as well. Mainstream website at that

CaptainHowdy 04-23-2009 05:34 PM

Adiós, geocities...

sortie 04-23-2009 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by $5 submissions (Post 15782267)
Congrats to the REAL WINNER: Dudes who sold Geocities to Yahoo for $3.65 BILLION in stock plus $1 BILLION in OPTIONS. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-220817.html

LOLz

You know, I don't think they "ripped yahoo off".
I think yahoo took something valuable and wasted it.

The first mistake was not really putting geocities into the search results hardcore.
I mean, WTF! You have a search engine and you don't bring up webpages with
your own advertising on it in the top results?????? :1orglaugh

NinjaSteve 04-23-2009 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by $5 submissions (Post 15782267)
Congrats to the REAL WINNER: Dudes who sold Geocities to Yahoo for $3.65 BILLION in stock plus $1 BILLION in OPTIONS. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-220817.html

LOLz

Holy balls! :1orglaugh

96ukssob 04-23-2009 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat (Post 15782259)
how about terra.es?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh wow that is really old

badpuma 04-23-2009 06:02 PM

They will be missed
 
R.I.P
made a lot of sites on them

majortom 04-23-2009 06:15 PM

Had my first site there, 1997 I think it was..living in Amsterdam...... working for the Magick Shop with Oz

so I had Intershrooms.com :pimp

Thought I would make big $$$, and the cover of NewsWeek ...nope didn't happen just a few sales here and there...Took Newsweek 4 years to catch on...by then I was somewhere else...

I wish I had discovered porn at that time...:2 cents:

Rochard 04-23-2009 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d-null (Post 15782301)
think of all those old geocities sites that are sitting high in the google serps too, will be gone overnight with no way to salvage them

I have a site up on Geocities. I couldn't access it any more, but it still sent out traffic to a program and I got money from it every month. Bummer.

Blazed 04-23-2009 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sortie (Post 15782417)
You know, I don't think they "ripped yahoo off".
I think yahoo took something valuable and wasted it.

The first mistake was not really putting geocities into the search results hardcore.
I mean, WTF! You have a search engine and you don't bring up webpages with
your own advertising on it in the top results?????? :1orglaugh

You failed with a free tube script you're hardly one to talk.

papill0n 04-23-2009 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat (Post 15782259)
how about terra.es?

haha something made me think of them the other day

I will add sexshare

sortie 04-23-2009 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blazed (Post 15782559)
You failed with a free tube script you're hardly one to talk.

You failed as a sig whore. :2 cents:

LiveDose 04-23-2009 06:40 PM

fsn.net.... 8-P

D Ghost 04-23-2009 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sands (Post 15782258)
Noooooooooooo! Where will I store my flaming skull .gifs now!?!?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

HorseShit 04-23-2009 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sands (Post 15782258)
Noooooooooooo! Where will I store my flaming skull .gifs now!?!?

This is a very funny comment Sandy, I've been too lazy to click quote this entire time on it though until now after I just blew a big load and captured some new found energies!

BAKO 04-23-2009 07:08 PM

posting dumb shit in biz threads is not funny, fucking idiot

BlackCrayon 04-23-2009 07:10 PM

thats sucks. i have a site i made in 98 still there and still getting a decent amount of traffic.

BAKO 04-23-2009 07:11 PM

If you have a problem with me lets get together and solve it the right way, dont be doing keyboard warrior shit on me

BVF 04-23-2009 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesK (Post 15782262)
That's where I made my first porn site :(

May you rest in peace, dear Geocities.

Me too.....Back when I first started, I had my main domain forwarded to geocities....Then some bitch reported me and forced me to get a real host....

Good times.

nikki99 04-23-2009 08:12 PM

thanks for the mamories geocities.com

Dennis69 04-23-2009 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RageCash-Ben (Post 15782561)
haha something made me think of them the other day

I will add sexshare

Damn made myself nice $$$$ back in the day of Sexshare :thumbsup


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