Geocities closed down...

[wadragracing]

Probably doesn't mean much to a lot of you but my first website was hosted on Geocities.
I think it was about 2001 and I designed it during one of my classes in high school. Was one of the only sites on drag racing in Western Australia at the time.
That site eventually got me some attention so I got a gig writing for a magazine, which made me go and do journalism at uni, which eventually got me my career today so forgive me for feeling a little nostalgic.
Go to http://web.archive.org/web/20011116234223/www.geocities.com/wadragracing/index.htm to have a look, not much of it is there, but enough to see all it's crappiness hahaha, the heart was there though!

Did anyone else here have their own Geocities sites?

EDIT: cjb.net link taken out, can put it back in if you want to see your Russian bride again Owain.

[[Jacek]]

Hahaha yeah i had one of those, and i did the ".cjb.net" thing aswell haha

Had all my plans for my car on there when i was like 15 haha complete with a photoshop of my car riding on ROH "Drift-R" hahahahaha

Its a shame, whats the best place to host a website for free these days?

[R3N]

yup had my first webpage hosted on geocities as well... i think it was in 99. back then every kid in my school had their own homepage.. ahhh memories

[DrNick]

haha funny i was just reminiscing about geocities the other day, i too had a really crappy website, i remember i was so proud of my graphics.. i made them in powerpoint so you can imaging how shit they must have looked.

i didnt know it closed down. i guess nobody makes websites anymore

[Ryan1080]

I think my first site was on angelfire, back in 97 I think. Then I switched to geocities. Mainly used it to host pics of photos from parties and stuff... If I only thought of it more, I could have been the one who created facebook haha.

[Joe]

Ahh shite hey, my first site was also on Geocities!!

It was a Classic Warez website (he he, haven't heard that word for a while!), and I had about 10 or 15 other Geocities accounts that I used to pilfer the webspace on, so I could have Classic Warez downloads on the main site :)

Who else here remembers the animated .gif craze that all websites went through?? Classic :D

[vrocious]

yeah i remember my first crappy website on geocities

did many people a great service

[Ryan1080]

I had about 10 or 15 other Geocities accounts that I used to pilfer the webspace on, so I could have Classic Warez downloads on the main site :)


Same here, ended up with about 30 different ones, all starting with the same URL, with numbers 1 to 30 at the end haha, all linked up to the main one. Pics were taking up a lot of bandwidth but also needed the storage space :D

[_S9_]

Geocities hosted my "Star Trek Voyager Resource Page" in 1996 :|

Complete with permanent "Under construction" animated .gif

/facepalms self.

[Mistikal]

I had a Geocities page, used to gripe at their version of a web-page creator, was so rubbish!

[Joe]

P.S. Archiveteam.org managed to collect all of these "Under Construction" .gif's off various Geocities pages during their archiving exercise prior to its shutting down.

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

There are THOUSANDS of the fuckin things!

[masTers]

Ahhh geocities...

and WBS.net.

All went hand in hand with mIRC scripting, and leaching warez off there too.

I remember sitting up all night downloading the first GTA

[Onijin]

Had one too, in about 97 or 98.

[ecent]

I remember my first website filled with crappy HTML and animated gifs like 100 of them tiled, because it was amazing.

[AndrZeJ]

yeah a had a hardcore techno geocities site, all thunderdome, id&t etc

[DrNick]

hahahaha thanks for reminding me how fail the "under construction" gifs are


and you know what

i just realized i put one of them on the suprawa.com site too lol.. i think i'll get rid of that now hahahah