Comments on: RIP GeoCities 1995 – 2009

By: halil

halil — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:51:51 +0000

One of my pages in Geocities had a mention of CS Script. I had built the page circa 2000 IMO. CS Script stands for Counter-Strike Script, a very simple script-like config language that enables easier gaming(or cheating, if you prefer). I now recall that someone around the globe (I’m from Turkey, I think they were from US) asked about what kind of script was that :) He had thought that the script was related to dynamic web pages, or real software or something :) If only I were aware of what a real dynamic thing is capable of at that age :)

By: Lololololol

Lololololol — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:48:18 +0000

My first ever web pages were built with this service. They actually got deleted a long time ago though. Ah well. RIP “Geoshities”, you served me somewhat well in my early web design learning.

By: Ludwig

Ludwig — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:55:19 +0000

Shame, really. I’ve been a user of Geocities since 2002; never had any issues and my website works fine. Then again, I never used their free web-hosting and had Geocities plus. I liked using HTML and building my site from scratch. I learned a lot through Geocities when first getting on the net.

Well, on the hunt for another service it seems; one that won’t close like many others have recently. I’m not interested in blogging or social networks; I just need a place to host the website as it is. Justhost.com looks promising.

By: Divine

Divine — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:51:03 +0000

@Adam, @David

Same story here, I guess.

By: Scott Petrovic

Scott Petrovic — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:55:05 +0000

I made one of my first websites on here in gradeschool. I wish I could remember what the URL was. So long Geocities!

By: Piet Hein

Piet Hein — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:45:10 +0000

I moght be one of only few, but I’m not crying over the end of Geocities. All their ’sites’ were a pain in the eye.

Good riddance to them.

By: engkiat

engkiat — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:17:18 +0000

i believe many of us here started with geocities realising our dreams to become a web designer or developer…we really owe it to these free web hosting services! RIP…

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:35:35 +0000

My first web site was on Geocities. It was a Detroit Red Wings fan page with different random backgrounds on each page and I believe I even used Comic Sans as my font! Just like Adam though, I self taught myself HTML through geocities, and is probably why I am where I am today.

By: Jim Neath

Jim Neath — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:53:19 +0000

@alexweber Funnily enough that’s what my first website was about.

RIP Geocities.

By: alexweber

alexweber — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:38:29 +0000

Oh man… these are sad, sad times! My Diablo I clan webpage from when I was 16 will finally be put to rest… :)