Tag: GEOCITIES

For the past twelve months, our world has been different. Those happy shires where unicorns once fluttered and roses once glittered have, sadly, fallen silent and sparkle-less. Those shining metropolises were known as the "Geocities," and, since their disappearance, their shimmering, spastic, cartoonish denizens have been forced into exile, left to fight for the little remaining space on tweens' ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of his collaboration with Scott Ostler of MIT Exhibit and Tim Baker of Delicious, all three part of the ever-growing group of young artists raised in a digital age. Ripps describes dump.fm as a "platform for real-time image ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/geocities-izer-revives-dead-web-host-in-all-its-animated-gif-glo/'; For 15 years, GeoCities allowed everyday folks to easily create and design their own personal Web pages, but the service was officially laid to rest last October. While the 'Cities may be gone, it is certainly not forgotten. With a little guidance from the Internet mediums at ...

Although inanimate and unaware, Web sites and Net memes must follow the order of natural selection just like carbon-based organisms. Since Darwin's law can be applied to all things, CNET is mourning 15 sites that were forced into extinction during 2009. Some of the Web creations that weren't properly adapted to survive 2009 include the once formidable and seemingly invincible Geocities, and ...

For months now, we've known this day was coming. But that doesn't make saying goodbye any easier. Geocities, the granddaddy of homepage-hosting services, is shutting down today. Not only will the service become obsolete, but all its data will be permanently deleted, too. Geocities has walked a long road, from pioneering Internet self-publishing, to selling out to Yahoo!, to total irrelevance, ...

GeoCities (you know, that aging homepage hosting service that you only ever arrived at by accident) is getting ready to shut its doors. The pioneering service, which eventually sold out to Yahoo! and slowly slipped into complete irrelevance, became popular in the 90's during the early dot-com boom for allowing geeks to quickly and easily create their own basic Web sites. Yahoo! very quietly ...