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Did you ever create a GeoCities account?
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LonelyJar
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23 Jan 2015, 4:49 am

Did you ever create a GeoCities account?



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02 Feb 2015, 4:26 pm

I never had a GeoCities account (I was too young then) but I remember going on a lot of Powerpuff Girls fansites hosted on it.


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02 Feb 2015, 8:00 pm

WOW! there still around? I haven't herd of them in years. Angelfire was another one of those as well.



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03 Feb 2015, 12:07 am

In 1999 I setup a very basic Geocities page detailing how to get audio chipset to work with Linux on a Compaq notebook that I had at the time. -- Linux was still fairly dodgy when it came to hardware support at the time.


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03 Feb 2015, 12:09 am

No, and I wish they still existed. Yahoo wiped out a good portion of the Internet, particularly sites pertaining to retrocomputing, by getting rid of GeoCities. None of the mirror sites seem to work well for me either. GeoCities died nearly six years ago, and I'm still pissed about it.



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12 Feb 2015, 1:46 am

I had a cheesy website on Geocities. Wrote it all manually with HTML code. No Wordpress or anything like that.

I think this was in 1997.



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12 Feb 2015, 4:08 am

Yes I did :D
*oh the memories*
Back then nobody nagged about Facebook stealing their images. Everybody put partypictures all over their "fancy" Geocities-pages without asking permission. And 90% of the webpages was <blink>under construction</blink> :)



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13 Feb 2015, 9:13 am

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
No, and I wish they still existed. Yahoo wiped out a good portion of the Internet, particularly sites pertaining to retrocomputing, by getting rid of GeoCities. None of the mirror sites seem to work well for me either. GeoCities died nearly six years ago, and I'm still pissed about it.


GeoCities is still available on Yahoo! Japan.


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16 Feb 2015, 10:33 pm

I had one of those with Yahoo. I loved it.


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02 Mar 2015, 10:07 pm

I was part of the GeoCities generation - I had a page about Doom hosted there with a few levels to download and random things stolen from other sites. It also had (as it seemed to be required for every GeoCities page at the time) an animated "e-mail me" link, MIDI background music, guestbook, hit counter, and a spinning "Get Internet Explorer" button (it was either that or "Netscape Now"). It has since been lost to history

I later dumped GeoCities when they started plastering pop-up ads on every page (and the methods they said would remove them did not work), and neither Netscape nor IE had pop-up blocking at the time.


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