Posted on 07/20/2009 12:55:05 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
GeoCities web hosting has been around since the very early days of the internet and while it’s not widely used anymore, it’s name still arouses a fond memory in the minds of early adopters. Every once in awhile, a long-dead GeoCities site will even crop up in search results. Yahoo, the current owner of GeoCities, has decided to finally put the sites and the entire service to rest, announcing that GeoCities will cease to function on October 26, 2009.
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I guess that means I will have to find another hosting site? Yuk, mine has been up since 1996 or so, and it will be a real hassle to redo it.
I've always rued the day when Yahoo bought out Geocities and started charging for extra space and the like, while screwing up its "homestead" friendliness in favor of a more corporate look and feel. It sucked. Now, Yahoo is finally pulling the plug on it, but leaving behind a lot of good web memories.
Its kind of sad. I am sure it costs money to upkeep but its like a webarchive being taken offline.
I agree. Geocities was my first website, too. Yahoo seems to mess up everything it touches, sooner or later.
I had a geocities site that I used to host my images. I paid $5/month for 7-8 years until they upped it to $8 a year or so ago.
When I got the notice that they were taking it down, I moved all my stuff over one of my other domains. It was something I should have done many years ago, but geocites was just convenient. Oh well, cya.
Oh great! What’s next, Livermore’s Centennial Light?
Have they no respect for History, Tradition, or (egads!) the Internet itself???
Very first websites were on GeoCities.
Once I learned how DNS and web hosting worked, I put my site on my desktop with web sharing. I now run my own multimedia web server with email, streaming, forums, and blogs on a 486/66 with Ubuntu. I leave the mySQL stuff to my 2008 server; mySQL doesn’t play nice with 512 MB of RAM.
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Crap, I had a geocities page back in the day. Sorry to see them going under.
I get sick of people bashing Yahoo. Allow me to present the following list of the good things Yahoo has done:
Can you explain to me how to download/save my geocities site? I am not real sure how to approach the problem, but I don’t want to lose everything.
If you are using Firefox, get the FIREFTP addon, connect and copy the entire contents to your C drive.
For geocities the host is ftp.geocities.com
username and password are your normal login.
Wow, thank you! That seems like something even I can do! :)
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