Geocities is closing...

Yahoo is closing Geocities on October 26.Well, internet services grow and fall every day you might think. However Geocities is available since 1994 and has some great sites about obscure video gaming. It's a pity that this information will be lost.

Here are some of my favourite sites:

The Ultimate Multi Game Doctor II page:
http://www.geocities.com/multigamedoctor/mgd2.html

Skywalkers Playstation corner
http://www.geocities.com/mike_bee/psx.html

NOT YAROZE
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown/2004/psx/ny_e.htm

The PSXWORKSHOP
http://www.geocities.com/psxrepair/?200618?200910

 

geocities was great, sad to see it go.

 

I have a site there. Boy that was like the 'myspace' of the Internet 90s. 14mb of webspace; a Java applet that helped you design your webpage. You weren't up-to-date if you didn't have your own webpage back then lol. Sad to see it go - just a sign of the times.

I hope the owners of those pages save everything.

 

Yup,

I know acquaintance artist who was using that site and I say your right Madhatter, Lol! It was! the myspace of the 90's. I took a look at it my self and could really find a use for it as a gamer. Interesting to hear though there shuting it down, Hmmmm.... :-(

I guess somethings do change after all.

 

Web archive will keep these sites visible, I am guessing.

 

It only archives so much.

 

start archiving lads, information must live on and it's up to the interested parties to do so!

 

I have a site on Geocities as well. Time to back it up!

 

i had a few pages on geocities. I wonder if Angelfire is next.

 

That is horrible news.

What does that mean about all of us? I am turning in to the guy that will tell some young guy, "Back when I was a kid we had Geocities and you only needed 14mb of space to build a site all the girls flocked too!"

 

I use bravehost for hosting some things I do and before that I used angelfire

 

I remember the geocities era like it was yesterday. It will be missed.

 

I actually remember how we hacked away at a particular person's geocities website, Dr_Slump should chuckle when reading this post

 

Why is geocities closing? If they are going to kill a piece of internet history they must have a good reason.

I hope somebody buys GeoCities and keeps it running, or at least that somebody makes a bakcup of the GeoCities servers.

 

Good point Barcode.:clap:

 

They have a great one -- they don't want to piss away resources on it.

 

In fact most of old Geocities sites are already stored in the Internet Archives (archive.org), thought many pictures may be missing since the first backups of websites back in the 90s were made with no images due to the lack of bandwidth.

Anyway if a list of old and rare websites could be made in order to download them before Geocities closes, just in case they weren't backed up properly in the Internet Archive...

 

make a backup of all websites on geocities.

 

bye bye geocities...