# Where are all those "web pages for life"? Gone. So who's life were we measuring with? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 25, 2001, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-those-web-pages-for-life-gone-so-whos-life-were-we-measuring-with/51699 "2001-01-25T09:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pit\_Meister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Pit\_Meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pit_Meister)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-those-web-pages-for-life-gone-so-whos-life-were-we-measuring-with/51699/1 "2001-01-25T09:01:12Z")
One after another, I’ve been tossed around trying to get a “free for life” web page to last for 6 months. The Free ISP’s are dying like flies, and so you have to move your email. The free homesteads too. Some that still exist don’t let you reference pages from a place like the SDMB, so you can’t even show people your pictures easily. So now I’ve signed up for Geocities, which was bought by Yahoo, and AGAIN they brag how it’s “for life”. Can’t the FTC make them specify that more exactly, like “for life or until our next stock offering dies next month.” ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-those-web-pages-for-life-gone-so-whos-life-were-we-measuring-with/51699/2 "2001-01-25T17:11:15Z")
Why is this in the Pit, Mr. Meister? Unless it’s a rant, it’s a GQ if I ever saw one. If it’s a rant, it rates very low. 2 or 3, if the Bulgarian judges are being generous. Anyway, I have a dead Geocities page that’s been up since 1996, and I have no means of updating it, or even deleting it (which I’d like to do). It’s just there, in the aether. ---
**Author:** ![nikjohns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@nikjohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikjohns)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-those-web-pages-for-life-gone-so-whos-life-were-we-measuring-with/51699/3 "2001-01-25T21:20:44Z")
I made a geocities page one summer, and I can’t even **find** the bugger ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-those-web-pages-for-life-gone-so-whos-life-were-we-measuring-with/51699/4 "2001-01-26T04:38:03Z")
Waddaya want for nothin’, rubber bisquit?