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Post by Livi on Apr 24, 2009 19:05:44 GMT -5
Hey guys, I know a few people out there use GeoCities or have old pages on GeoCities they might rather not lose. Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities (no new accounts can be made anymore) and later this year it will be shut down entirely. So this is just a heads up to everyone - there's no need to rush to backup your pages according to Yahoo, although it's better to move/back them up sooner than later  |
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Post by Cynther on Apr 24, 2009 22:50:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the headsup!
I was just starting to work on backing things up there, I guess I'll put a little more effort into that then I had been! (haven't made any progress the last week... *cough* )
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Post by MadMooCow on Apr 25, 2009 7:56:46 GMT -5
Thanks for that... I was going to do a major overhaul of my adopted site at some point. Better go save the site now, so I don't forget about it later.
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Post by Dawby on Apr 25, 2009 10:58:34 GMT -5
ooo, yeah. all my pages are up there, too. i was wondering when geocities was going to finally bite the bullet.
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Post by Aevelyn_LL on Apr 25, 2009 13:47:41 GMT -5
angelfire/lycos probably won't be far behind. Seems like free webhosting is becoming a thing of the past.
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Post by SunBlind on Apr 25, 2009 14:46:36 GMT -5
Wow, didn't see that coming, though I guess I should have. But then I haven't been using those sites I have, I just have some random stuff still located on them. But still, geocities has been around since...forever ^.^
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Post by Janalee on Apr 25, 2009 17:34:05 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this Livi! It'll be sad to see all the really old pages disappear...though it'll finally force me to organize my pages like I've meant to for awhile, so I guess it's not all bad in my case. *crooked grin*
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Post by MadMooCow on Apr 26, 2009 4:50:40 GMT -5
If people are finding it hard to find a new free host, try checking out this link: www.absolutely-free-hosting.com/It lists a bunch of free hosts and lists out what they offer, etc. It might help when you are ready to relocate. ^^ I've started relocating a bunch of my adoptables now because I needed to update a few things on that site for a while now as it was bugging me. I guess I never really noticed how many I've managed to collect over the years. xD |
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Post by sera on Apr 30, 2009 22:13:21 GMT -5
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Post by Dawby on May 1, 2009 9:53:30 GMT -5
It's a nice offer, but what's even cooler is the web hosting history that's up here. Even if you're not looking for a new host, check this out! |
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Post by SunBlind on May 2, 2009 10:15:50 GMT -5
Oh man, I feel old. I remember when all those thing like WebRings were big. And guestbooks (I still have my Dreambook), and when people would give out awards to each other's sites ^.^
And those days when people would make pages with clashing colours and thousands of animated gifs. Don't forget the snowglobe and reflection lake applets that came after that. xD Things have changed and I have to admit the internet is much easier on the eyes than it used to be.
I wonder if Lady Hippo's adoptions are still out there.....
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Post by Aevelyn_LL on May 5, 2009 6:58:18 GMT -5
don't forget site fights. I think that is still around, at least when I last checked. Voting for your friends in that was big for a while.
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Post by Dawby on May 5, 2009 9:17:47 GMT -5
Man... memories. Things kind of have changed, haven't they. *wipes tear* Our little internet has grown up!
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Post by SunBlind on May 6, 2009 19:49:35 GMT -5
I never joined any site fights, but I do on occasion get one signing my guestbook (dreambook actually) asking me to join  So yup, they're still around. What about those growing flower things you could send people, remember those? ^.^ *nods* The internet has definitely changes, all youtube and mypage now. Never got into that facebook/mypage thing...I mean really, I don't want people knowing about all the details of my boring life LOL youtube is fun though...so is icanhascheezburger.com (goes to look at silly captioned kitty pictures...) Remember the hamster dance? ROFL |
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Post by Dawby on May 7, 2009 6:09:56 GMT -5
*loves on the whole icanhas site family*
Even adoptables are not the busy, wait-listed industries they once were.
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So yup, they're still around.