The Internet Marches On

[overlord_mordax]

So, maybe I'm a little late on the bandwagon, but I just heard that Geocities was closing. I find this immensely sad. I have a few Geocities pages sitting out there, unloved and unremembered. But oh how I loved them when they were new.

Yahoo *says* they're going to keep service for extant pages, but who knows when that might be changed? And then all those sites, their passwords forgotten, with their blinking banners, and horrendous moving gifs and tinkly midis, that we thought would linger on until the apocalypse will silently disappear.

And the internet,, no, the world, will be a poorer place for it.

Comments

[glimmer17.livejournal.com]

Wow, I guess things really do change. Soon they're be a such thing as data ancient artifacts, well, maybe not...cause the world will continue to change and serves go offline.

[lellenator.livejournal.com]

I routinely have nightmares about finding old websites and journals (particularly of people who've died) and never finding out what happened to people. I never go on my old Danny Phantom (or even older Digimon) boards anymore, but they're still the only archive of a specific group of people who were, for awhile, the most important people in the world to me. They also archive my maturation as an internet presence- I was the most annoying 10/11 year old on the Digimon forums and grew up a bit with Danny Phantom, and now I eschew boards, like you do.

My old, old site is up on Angelfire- I have even older sites on Expage, if they kept them.

[nefaz.livejournal.com]

aww. my first homepage was on geocities. :(

[caliantrias.livejournal.com]

I pray to the Gods of the Internet that MySpace "with their blinking banners, and horrendous moving gifs and tinkly midis" is next.

[lellenator.livejournal.com]

IAWTC hardcore. Sir or Madame, I like how you think.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. Agreed. The Internet has a history, and eventually no one will remember it. Damn. Just damn.

[chocomookielove.livejournal.com]

This is the first I've heard of it, so at least you're not as late as I am.