Yahoo! GeoCities closing down
I could have posted this on my new technology blog, being about internet and technology. But somehow the news that Yahoo! Geocities is closing down has some personal effect on me that’s why I opted to post it here.
With Geocities being closed down by Yahoo! I can’t help but be nostalgic. Because before I created my first blogger account, it was in GeoCities that I had my very first web existence.
Yes, my very first website, the House Of Puroy was in GeoCities, and I worked hard on it for almost a week before I was finaly satisfied with how it looked.
I didn’t know anything about HTML programming then, that’s why I so appreciated Geocities because of its drag-and-drop feature. It was my very first website, my very first attempt at becoming an entrepreneur.
Yes, the website is still up and running up to now, I haven’t put it down yet. You might want to check it while it’s still there. Visit my very first website.
Although, it won’t just abruptly close, Yahoo! said all the existing websites can still be accessed until the end of the year… and then, they will be going to ‘kingdom come.’
With Geocities going the way of the dinosaurs, it is but natural that new accounts are no longer accepted for creation.
I fully understand why such a decision is going to be made really. People prefer to be on the social networks more and very few really are creating their websites on Geocities now.
Then there’s blogging, a very convenient expression platform, that has all the feature that one can do on Geocities… plus more.
Goodbye chocolates… goodbye fishcharons…
Maybe I am partly to blame, because it’s been ages since I visited my own Geocities site too.
But then, even if I were still active there, it could still lead to this.
Until then… goodbye Geocities… thank you for the memories…
Tags: chocolates, closing down, extinction, first website, fishcharon, geocities, house of puroy, website, Yahoo
Oh, what a bummer. The first time is always memorable. We’re maybe inept at it, fumbling, juvenile and all that, but there’s always a special place for the first best friend, first tryst, first love, and yes, first site or blog.
It’s great looking back and with something to point to, “Hey, that’s where I cut my teeth in blogging.”
And think of where we’ve been now. Accomplished. With so much tucked under our belt. We’ve become beribboned and decked with mementos of our achievements.
And all because of that first crucial step we made.
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InternetArchaeology.org is in the process of preserving Geocities, we are currently downloading thousands of sites for cultural prosperity.
Since 1994 Geocities has provided users with free homepages. This is from an age when the word homepage really meant something. The internet was rooted in the real world, because it had to be. Web 1.0 was all about giving anyone who wanted a voice, a voice. Pages were more fixed, they were treated like plots of land. When someone changes something on a plot of land people know, this holds true with the analogy in Web 1.0 (ala PAGE LAST UPDATED XXXX) . Geocities was a designed as a digital utopia, a network of ?cities?? which were named things like CapitalHill and WestHollywood (it is amazing and beautiful that in the 1994 beginnings of the internet there was a plot of land designated for homosexuals to have a voice) Geocities was remarkable in the sense it was the first service to provide free plots of land regardless of creed.. now it is expected that all content production on the internet be free.
Web 2.0 is all about everyone being a content creator and contributer. In this model it is the NEW that is valued. Up to the minute everything. This is great, but content becomes transient, not rooted in anything. Authorship becomes fuzzy as information moves at warp speed around the net. This is the reason that there is little value to digital content today.
The notion of value is at the pith of IA?s mission.
We wish to present digital artifacts in the same fashion as a museum; so that they can be culturally appreciated as much as physical artifacts. It is this large concept of collective value which is much bigger than any one individual.
Ryder Ripps
Director/Curator
InternetArchaeology.org
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