Comments on: Yahoo! GeoCities closing down http://thestrugglingblogger.com/2009/04/yahoo-geocities-closing-down/ If I write, will you read? If I beg, will you feed? Tue, 08 May 2012 16:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: So long, Geocities… we will miss you… - Tech Talk http://thestrugglingblogger.com/2009/04/yahoo-geocities-closing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1424 So long, Geocities… we will miss you… - Tech Talk Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:03:22 +0000 http://thestrugglingblogger.com/?p=452#comment-1424 [...] April, I made a post in my other blog about the news that Geocities is closing down, a news that made me feel sad and somewhat nostalgic because my first website was made in [...] [...] April, I made a post in my other blog about the news that Geocities is closing down, a news that made me feel sad and somewhat nostalgic because my first website was made in [...]

]]> By: Internet Archaeology http://thestrugglingblogger.com/2009/04/yahoo-geocities-closing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1204 Internet Archaeology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:41:25 +0000 http://thestrugglingblogger.com/?p=452#comment-1204 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 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

]]> By: jan_geronimo http://thestrugglingblogger.com/2009/04/yahoo-geocities-closing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-536 jan_geronimo Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:10:35 +0000 http://thestrugglingblogger.com/?p=452#comment-536 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. <abbr><em>jan_geronimo’s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/salabasngmandaluyong/~3/1agI8ZeMyi4/secret-to-earning-good-stumbleupon.html" rel="nofollow">The Secret to Earning a Good StumbleUpon Review</a></abbr></em> 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.

jan_geronimo’s last blog post..The Secret to Earning a Good StumbleUpon Review

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