# Geocites shuts down today. Anyone care? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212 "2009-10-26T19:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/21 "2009-10-27T04:39:48Z")
If Geocities had evolved into something useful, instead of laying as a stagnant reminder of how primitive the web once was, it might be worth preserving. As it stands, or stood, considering it’s now gone, it represents the worst of amateur web “design” and I can only hope MySpace, its spiritual successor, shares a similar fate. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/22 "2009-10-27T15:29:33Z")
Farewell blinky GIFs we hardly knew ye. ☹ Ok, I’m over it now. > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > 4x3 Flying Dutchman at the In-N-Out. I refuse to believe that this phrase is not used as a sexual euphamism somewhere in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/23 "2009-10-27T15:58:52Z")
Geo-cities websites would always lock up my first computer, a Compaq Presario so I was always phobic about anything geo-cities. The one I miss is Deja-News. Have you ever tried to search for old usenet posts using Google? Oh my God what a mess. ---
**Author:** ![artemis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@artemis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/artemis)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/24 "2009-10-27T16:25:21Z")
I care, as I had a Geocities site which I still kept track of (although I could no longer edit it using the Geocities site building tools, for some odd reason). I’ve saved the materials posted there and have them up on LiveJournal now, but it’s still sad to see my old site disappear. (I miss Deja News as well, **Icerigger**. There was a lot of great stuff posted on Usenet back in its day, which is all but impossible to find now. I think future historians are going to be pretty upset when they think about what was lost during the early days of the digital revolution because we casually threw it away as “worthless.”) ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/25 "2009-10-27T17:37:12Z")
I just took a little trip back in time to the few Geocities sites I still have in bookmarks. So long, [Brother Theodore](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8135/), instructions on how to make a Walkalong Glider, and other assorted oddities. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/26 "2009-10-27T17:43:25Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > The homepage **Towers** linked to is down now. ☹ …just went there… worked fine. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/27 "2009-10-27T17:54:11Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Put it in perspective. Jazz is one of the greatest contributions American culture has given the world. It has been studied, critiqued, subsidized, preserved and enshrined. And still - at this point, the best of it is of interest only to the saddest sort of obsessive basement-dwelling fact-hoarders, with most of the rest in the control of incestuous low-level marketing goons. You need to get out more. There’s five jazz clubs within walking distance of my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/28 "2009-10-27T18:05:00Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > …just went there… worked fine. Just went there and it’s still not working. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/29 "2009-10-27T20:33:00Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Geo-cities websites would always lock up my first computer, a Compaq Presario so I was always phobic about anything geo-cities. The one I miss is Deja-News. Have you ever tried to search for old usenet posts using Google? Oh my God what a mess. Huh? I’m able to find all my old posts to Usenet with no particular difficulty. Newsgroup name and the e-mail address and I’ve got it. I did it the other day and realized just how much stuff I used to know that I have almost completely forgotten about - old software that I was an expert in and stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![snailboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@snailboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snailboy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/30 "2009-10-27T21:59:20Z")
I’m gonna miss it, in a nostalgic way. It reminds me of the way things were when I first got the internet. Everyone had either a Geocities or an Angelfire website. You were lucky if you could get 28k. Those were much simpler times. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/31 "2009-10-27T23:53:31Z")
[Jason Scott cares.](http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1961) Perhaps too much, but he’s actually doing something about it. Everything that’s been said in this thread about jazz could be said about rock or classical with precisely as much truth. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/32 "2009-10-28T00:41:58Z")
I care because the first webpage I ever made, over 10 years ago when I was 14 years old, was on Geocities. It was a guide for a video game (Everquest) I was playing at the time. And it was still indexed by Google as the top result if you searched for the particular part of the game I wrote the guide for. So with Geocities, a little piece of my childhood died. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/33 "2009-10-28T00:43:13Z")
Geocites dies, the internet responds with a resounding ‘meh’. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/34 "2009-10-28T00:50:16Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Geocites dies, the internet responds with a resounding [del]‘meh’[/del] ‘Wait, they were still around?’. There, fixed. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212/35 "2009-10-28T00:56:32Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > There, fixed. Please don’t change text inside quote boxes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geocites-shuts-down-today-anyone-care/515212.md?page=1)