Tag: Geocities
Geocities 1994 – 2009 RIP
by James on Oct.26, 2009, under Computers
The first page I ever put up on the internet was way back in 1996 courtesy of Geocities. It was mostly a fan site for my favorite RPGs and books at the time and hosted such content as would put my on the business end of a law suit today (ahhh… simpler times)
At the time, they were the go to source for free internet web hosting. I think every single person on the internet at that time had a site there. Because of this, it quickly became known for hosting some of the most eye meltingly bad web designs ever seen by man. A friend of mine had a web page that had so many animated gifs on it (It was a Daggerfall fan page with images of all the sprite rendered monsters) that it took some ten minutes to load over a 14.4 modem connection. Another friend had zero organization to his HTML code and it was only by the grace of IE 4 lack of adherence to standards that the page rendered at all.
I had not thought of Geocities in years nor of its fate until today on the sublime web comic XKCD.
XKCD's Geocities tribute redesign
I have no idea how long he plans on leaving the web site like this, but it truly captures everything that was great and terrible about Geocities.
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