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[tomhanna]

"first-generation Internet dorks (known then as "former SysOps")"
Wow. Sounds like the bitterness of a third generation dork wannabe at missing out on the beginning. Actually, the whole article reads that way. Yeah, the scrolling marquees and animated gifs look quaint compared to embedded YouTube videos and the Flash intro pages that just won't seem to die no matter how badly we want them to, but just wait. In 15 years, we'll be able to get on the Wayback Machine and make fun of PCWorld 2009, JR Raphael and his obsession with putting Twitter, the latest flash in the pan, in his author profile.

[bbvammy]

aaawww .... let me try to log into my GeoCities, Angelfire and Tripod. I hope they didn't cancel my accounts.

[Deadhacker]

While GeoCities sucked from the beginning and was most-commonly compared to the Internet version of an Electrolux, JR Raphael's report reeks of the envy of a young, untalented, non-creative hack who wishes he had gotten the money from Yahoo instead.
I won't miss GeoCities, but I wouldn't miss JR Raphael, either.

[PCWorldJR]

I wouldn't miss him, either. That guy's a total jerk.

[G0820939]

I'm so glad. That domain had somehow become a leper colony for the worst websites ever made. They were all beyond tacky and completely pointless. So annoying.

[coastie65]

If anybody ever looked up ship's history, more than likely, it was hosted by geocities. I have found many a ship there including the one I was aboard. Iwas much easier than prowling around through the Naval Archives, which can be interesting in it's own right. coastie65

[Agent5]

GeoCities may not have been a haven for well constructed web-sites but I fail to see how their infamously poor architecture and animated GIFs are any worse than quite a bit of what one still finds online. Because MySpace's embedded MIDI was always so very welcome.
As anachronistic and poorly thought out as GeoCities was, I don't see how PC World has room to criticize. Have you ever visited the site? It's a mess!

[funkyjam]

Wow, 12 remaining users??? I still have my geocities account that I have info on... guess its time to move it somewhere more permanent :-).

[ozoneocean]

At one time Geocities was a good home for amateurs who made ugly looking webpages that played music and looked garish.
But sites that Myspace eventually took up that role and exceeded the work of the amateurs with bad design sense a thousand times over.
Actually, Geocities was never as bad as what Myspace became.

[TsarNikky]

I sure hope GeoCities remains alive. It was the only site I managed to figure out how to create a web page and include images. The current "briefcase" idiom is hopelessly complicated. Pity.

[Valethar]

"the shame its users should have felt for creating abhorrent content within its servers"
Anyone else see the irony in this statement?

[Codex24]

I hadn't forgotten GeoCities existed. Since 1993 when I used my OS/2-powered 486 to reach it via dial-up, my resume has been posted there (updated occasionally), and has gotten more more useful job leads than all the Dice, Monsters, and CareerBuilders combined. GeoCities, we salute you!

[GraysonPeddie]

Ah... GeoCities...
I've got to wonder why would Yahoo acquired GeoCities... Oh, wll...
It's been in my memory lane for a very long time and it can be quite hard to get the word out of my memory.

[bowerock]

Man. I still go back to the stuff I have on my GeoCities account.
That free space to play with gave me plenty of room to learn my HTML and frames and such.
It also inspired me recently to begin work on a retro website called "the warlock's dungeon."

[bubbaken]

OOHH NOOO! I need to move my Duke Nukem maps to my Angelfire account! Now where the heck did I put that copy of BYTE!

[theantibush]

And to think Balmie could have had his very own GeoCities adventure for a mere $47.5 billion.

[wolfing]

$4.6 billions? Man, I hope companies learn from the mistake of paying billions for 'ideas' (4.6 billion for a company that maybe had 1 million in assets)... oh well, guess they didn't.

[wolfing]

dupe

[techie4fun]

Pretty much. The last time I used Geocities was back in 2004. Since then, I've forgotten about it.