# Come on, Geocities, you pikers!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-geocities-you-pikers/122335>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 4, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-geocities-you-pikers/122335 "2002-08-04T22:16:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-geocities-you-pikers/122335/1 "2002-08-04T22:16:28Z")

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Get your damn site back up! My fiction is there and I haven’t even had a chance to look at it yet! Don’t tell me you won’t get it back up until Monday! I wanna see it NOW! And I don’t want people to go to the site, think it’s dead, and never go back! Get your shit together!

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-geocities-you-pikers/122335/2 "2002-08-05T06:21:42Z")

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I’m serious, Geocities. Don’t make me come after you.

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**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-geocities-you-pikers/122335/3 "2002-08-05T07:00:30Z")

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You get what you pay for…

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**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-geocities-you-pikers/122335/4 "2002-08-05T07:07:58Z")

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Sometimes. If you’re lucky…