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Goodbye GeoCities: 7 Retro Things We'll Miss Forever

comedycentral.com — Months after the initial announcement, today, it becomes official: Yahoo has shut down GeoCities. Let's make one last toast to a few of the relics they'll leave in the rubble.

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 26, 2009

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  • robbob, on 10/26/2009, -2/+517I'll miss all the broken image links, tacky backgrounds, and auto-audio streams.
    ...but enough about MySpace
  • h3110, on 10/26/2009, -1/+204There goes 50% of the pokemon websites
  • Surferess, on 10/26/2009, -0/+149You're right. Visitor counters, you never see those anymore. RIP visitor counters!
  • glendower, on 10/26/2009, -3/+144Check out xkcd's website today. They made a tribute to geocities

    http://www.xkcd.com
  • diggduggDOOM, on 10/26/2009, -0/+121Oh no! I'll go search AltaVista for a new World Wide Web hang out.
  • MrDoug, on 10/26/2009, -0/+119I think at one time, I had 2-3 websites with all of those things on a single page.

    HTML - Check
    Under Construction GIF - Check
    FAQ Link - Check
    Webmaster Email Link, next to a Visitor Counter - Check-Check
    Top anchor - Check
    Sign my Guest Book - Check

    ...all on a Geocities URL. (Check)

    RIP Geocities.
  • crestana, on 10/26/2009, -2/+120Hey what about "This site is optimized for 800x600 and works best with IE 4.0"? :)
  • Woolamander, on 10/26/2009, -1/+102What's with the HTML hate in that article? XHTML (HTML's younger, hotter sister) is still the basis of most any website.

    And what's with the poo-pooing about "coding by hand in notepad"? Seems like that is the only RIGHT way to do it...

    Nonetheless... I dugg for Geocities nostalgia
  • chris1234, on 10/26/2009, -5/+92Goodbye Geocities, Hello Blogspot.
  • grnicon, on 10/26/2009, -0/+78In 2020...

    "What was up with all those lists? Remember those? Those pointless arbitrary lists of things that took over the web during the 2000s? Did the people back then have an unhealthy addiction to counting?"
  • aralls, on 10/26/2009, -2/+67http://www.instantrimshot.com/

  • Mudcrutch, on 10/26/2009, -1/+64Next thing to become retro: "Follow me on Twitter" graphics.
  • mkriss5681, on 10/26/2009, -0/+51Not for long :(
  • Ymeg, on 10/26/2009, -0/+49I just nostalgiaed
  • ErrorLoading, on 10/26/2009, -2/+42Yup, back when people made web pages to honor something they were interested in rather than to make money. I genuinely miss that.
  • enozten, on 10/26/2009, -0/+40don't forget the random website award logo

    #1 according to some *****'s random list!
  • CB810, on 10/26/2009, -0/+39It's amazing how many of the innovators fade away rather than staying ahead of the curve and continuing to break new ground...
  • xdarkfluxx, on 10/26/2009, -2/+38My geocities page is still up.
  • klane, on 10/26/2009, -0/+34Whoa! I was the 123,456th person to view the article! How cool is that?

    [joke]
  • nyxerebos, on 10/26/2009, -0/+29This page looks best in Netscape Navigator mofos.
  • trustler, on 10/26/2009, -2/+31The only thing I didn't like at Geocities was the sidebar ads.
  • haharleyquinn, on 10/26/2009, -2/+31I see what you did there...
  • kylescousin, on 10/26/2009, -0/+28GAH, and i just composed a new midi for my geocities page!
  • MattBD, on 10/26/2009, -3/+24Coding by hand is the way to do it, but who wants to use a crappy text editor like Notepad?

    disclaimer: I am a Vim fan.
  • sunnycuts, on 10/26/2009, -0/+20its more like hotbot
  • SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/26/2009, -0/+20Yeah, but it will only be ironically mentioned in a Cracked article titled: "10 Needless And Ironic Criticisms Of Things We Used To Do And Still Do Today"

    Also on that list: needlessly pointing out irony and/or debating the meaning of word, criticizing things needlessly, and reflecting nostalgically on things that are only slightly different than modern day things just a few years after they were popular.
  • shroommi, on 10/26/2009, -2/+22I dunno, I kind of enjoy Dreamweaver finishing my tags for me.
  • binhphan, on 10/27/2009, -0/+18They still use them on ebay auctions
  • seventoes, on 10/27/2009, -0/+18We don't take kindly to you Frontpage types 'round here
  • chuckDontSurf, on 10/26/2009, -0/+18in your pants?
  • Shuk, on 10/26/2009, -0/+18Does anyone remember the list of "Affiliates"? with little banners underneath? My Dragonball Z fan page was filled with affiliates from top sites that I had absolutely no connection with.
  • JustinNoland, on 10/26/2009, -0/+18It can cause interference, as can anything operating on the 2400mhz spectrum.
  • mkriss5681, on 10/26/2009, -0/+17I think the point was styling with HTML. The strict XHTML doctype does not like styling. You do it in CSS.
  • Danial, on 10/26/2009, -2/+19It is a sad day. GeoCities is nostalgia for me. I wish I could go back to the good ol' days of the late 90's and 2000. Everything after that is a joke I'm sad to say.
  • mkriss5681, on 10/26/2009, -0/+17Now I have nowhere to post my classic Battlestar Galatica fanfic that no one will read.
  • inactive, on 10/26/2009, -0/+17Dammit why am I just now hearing about this. I knew I should have saved all those Animorphs fan fiction to a floppy disk.
  • almiki, on 10/27/2009, -0/+16But were you in a Webring?
  • dave122, on 10/26/2009, -1/+17What's altavista? Is that like webcrawler?
  • MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/26/2009, -1/+17Yes, their brains failed so their website is closing.
  • seventoes, on 10/27/2009, -0/+15Mine went down yesterday, literrally as I was half way through the process of saving it all.. Half of my horrible horrible site is lost forever :(
  • inactive, on 10/26/2009, -1/+16Alright. I liked that.
  • dk75eclipse, on 10/27/2009, -0/+15This is what happens when you try to sound smart.
  • SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/26/2009, -1/+16I think the point was this article was written by someone with only a cursory understanding of computers and web design as evidenced by the fact that consider HTML "computer programming." You know, that's what my mom thought too when she say me writing HTML in notepad at age 12.

    I guess what I'm getting at is this article sounds like it was written by a less funny version of my mother.
  • gaqua, on 10/27/2009, -0/+14People still do it, but the large amount of forums make it superfluous. There's still a fan community for anything you can imagine. There's a website dedicated to flashlights and the forum has over 100,000 posts in it. Flashlights!

    The one for flashlights you have sex with is 10x that size, though.
  • thatryanguy, on 10/26/2009, -0/+14Lucky, I was 124,802nd. Did you win a prize? Did you click on the popup to claim it?
  • WDM01, on 10/26/2009, -0/+14My biggest regret is that I have never made a geocities account. :(
  • dave122, on 10/26/2009, -0/+14hahah hotbot, totally forgot about that one.
  • drouk1556, on 10/27/2009, -0/+14Frontpage? Burn him at the stake.
  • shuffler42, on 10/27/2009, -0/+14Go to archive.org. It will still be on there.

    I finally rediscovered mine: http://web.archive.org/web/19991009131549/www.geoc ...
  • reticulate, on 10/26/2009, -1/+15Real men use notepad.
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