Geocities is closing (possibly old news to some). And I had just mentioned good ol’ GC in one of my recent posts… weird. A place I don’t think about forever, and when I do, something newsworthy about it is brought to my attention.
Anyone reading this remember Geocities? If you were on the web around 1997, you probably saw quite a number of fan pages written in basic HTML with tiled or neon backgrounds and over/under-sized, hard-to-read text, discussing all manner of anything.
Web 2.0 more-or-less put the final stake into the heart of sites and services like Geocities. I mean, although you’re currently at www.robotcousin.com, I could just as easily be posting this at robotcousin.wordpress.com (doesn’t exist). The old “put your html and animated gifs here!” sites of yesteryear have gone (or are going), and now are the blogspots, the wordpresses, the Facebook fan pages.
I think, just for fun, next time I’m updating this site, I’ll tile “underconstruction.gif” in the background.
RIP Geocities. You served many a fan-fiction-author well.
Dec 15th 1995 – October 29 2009
