Pages Tagged “GeoCities”
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- Blast from the past: dredged up my old netscape.net address
Blast from the past. Doing some email testing & dredged up my old netscape.net address. Had to re-activate it, and the handful of messages I probably saved way back in the day were gone, and now it’s aim.com instead…but it’s still got my years-outdated contact list, including people I haven’t interacted with in a decade. […]
- E-Flashback
Yesterday I received an email newsletter from Webring promoting guestbooks and counters. Wow. The 1990s really *are* back.
- Ambitious, crazy, or both?
Interesting read: Backing up Geocities: Lessons so far. A side-effect of the whole process is I now know way, way, way too much about Geocities than I ever expected to. We’ve had to dissect every aspect of how the site functions to understand how to mirror things, from its history through how it does crazy […]
- Geocities Fading Away
Farewell, Geocities. It was nice knowing you. (Wait, no it wasn’t!) In a message on Yahoo!’s help site, the company said that it would be shuttering Geocities, a free web-hosting service, later this year and will not be accepting any new customers. Update: I wrote a bit more on the fandom side of things over […]