RIP Geocities

[mahnmut]

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8325749.stm

It is sad in my opinion to see GeoCities, a pioneering website, in which it gave many people their first taste of home page building, close forever on 26 October. A few years back, GeoCities used to host millions of users, and these were before the days of social networks.

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[ddstory.livejournal.com]

I found out about it when I checked xkcd and saw that the site design had been slightly altered...

It gets a meh from me. Sure, lots of people used it. And lots of their stuff was crap.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

That's a real shame. I fondly remember making my first horribly designed blue-text-black-background website on geocities.

[alphistia.livejournal.com]

Alphistia debuted in late 1995 on the web on a geocities page. I did it myself :-) http://www.alphistia.com is still pretty much at a geocities html level...

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I think it's a pretty good website. By the way I was looking at the Alphistia map and I noticed that most toponyms have a distinct Baltic/Polish/Estonian flavor.

[alphistia.livejournal.com]

There are influences from all over in Alphistia, but Northern European, Baltic and/or Polish inspirations are definitely there :-) Of course if you go to the southwest of Alphistia, it's a VERY good copy of Walcheren in Zeeland. More hills though :-)

Just from curiosity...is your housing in Johannesburg a flat in a big highrise in the center or a smaller apartment community in the suburbs? I have read that most white and middle-class South Africans of all colors live in gated communities because of the fear of crime. And I know that for the poorest South Africans, housing is very substandard...

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Here it's not exactly like in the US. A 'high rise building' in the centre would often look like this (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/8851935.jpg) (Rosebank, near where I live), while the suburbs often look like this (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6815922.jpg) (near Alexandra, where I spend most of my work time). Of course, there's this (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/8815829.jpg) type of gated (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/23136517.jpg) estates, but I'm not anywhere near that standard. Here (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/10070326.jpg)'s the type of place I live in. Now, I'm sure this probably begs the next question: where's Kol in all this? I'd say somewhere (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/24305537.jpg) in the middle (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6653674.jpg), I guess (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/13615103.jpg).

[alphistia.livejournal.com]

I like the urban feel of the type of street you live on, and love those jacaranda trees!

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

They smell awesomely.