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News Item: Geocities is Going Away Later this Year

Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:28 pm
by thehawk
As you may or may not have heard, Geocities is going away 'later this year' (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocit ... es-05.html). This is significant because there are a -lot- of good sites dedcated to older games on Geocities that will just disappear, like what happened last year when AOL closed its Hometown.

I bring this up because I have a -ton- (almost literally) of web space that I would be more than happy to give some of these sites a new home. If you or someone you know has a site (or know a site that the owner has long since disappeared and you deem it to be an important contribution to the community) has a site that needs the space, please feel free to contact me either by PM here or by EM and I will see what I can do.

It really irks me when I go looking for a resource and it has suffered a spontaneous massive existance failure. Reading thru some posts today, someone mentioned the site "A Hero's Quest for Glory", which has been on Geocities for who knows how long, and it reminded me that they are closing. So anyway..

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-thehawk
thehawk5150 at gmail dot com

Re: News Item: Geocities is Going Away Later this Year

Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 7:57 am
by Angelus3K
Crazy! My first website was with Geocities about 12-13 years ago!

Re: News Item: Geocities is Going Away Later this Year

Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:12 am
by Gronagor
LOL! That reminded me of my first site as well! Also started it about 12 years ago. I see I last updated (and last visited) it in 1998. :lol

Looks stupid now! :lol Back then it wasn't as easy to create GIF animations as it is now. :) Was quite a skill! (ok, very feeble attempt at making excuses for the bad animations. :( )

http://www.geocities.com/gronagor

(I have no idea how to access that site of mine anymore, and I just want it to go away! So... one good thing from Geocities closing)

Re: News Item: Geocities is Going Away Later this Year

Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:43 am
by MusicallyInspired
Wow. This is truly the end of an era.

Re: News Item: Geocities is Going Away Later this Year

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:09 am
by 2dgamers
My first website I ever made was on GeoCities... so glad those days are gone. :)