Comments on: Lighting a Candle for Geocities

By: Automaton » Blog Archive » GeoCities

Automaton » Blog Archive » GeoCities — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:20:36 +0000

[...] Een paar GeoCities highlights, voor zolang ze nog online staan (via Coilhouse): [...]

By: Ashbet

Ashbet — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:09:39 +0000

My first site was on Xoom, and it was mostly scanned art with a few photos. Amusingly, the first contact my now-husband made with me was to fix a scanned image that needed to be rotated (I’d scanned it at Kinko’s and had no photo-editing software), e-mailing me with the corrected image as a gift. :D

I first got online on Usenet (alt.gothic REPRESENT!) back in 1992 — I *horrified* Sexbat when I recently introduced him to my daughter (now 16) and told him that she’d been subconsciously influenced by him IN THE WOMB. I do believe he wandered away clutching his head and muttering “I’m so old!”

I’m so glad that the immortal Cryptie is being archived somewhere!

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:53:53 +0000

Erm… probably. Collecting dust somewhere. Completely forgotten.

But I do remember me and my best mate taking ages to get it recognised on google. NECESSARY!

@Zoetica – AAAHAHAHA amazing!

By: Luxxy

Luxxy — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:45:57 +0000

I was an avid geocities freak between the ages of 8 & 14…
Oh good memories.
But I’m also glad I’m wayyy past that!

By: Madame Curare

Madame Curare — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:27:09 +0000

A large segment of the Pagan population had their first tentative steps into our world via Geocities. Oh, hideous purple starlight wallpaper, oh burning times Wheel, how I will miss thee.

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:39:04 +0000

R.I.P.

By: Exitmould

Exitmould — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:03:50 +0000

Ah, this reminded me of the glorious Geocities site my sister made when she was a teenager. It was the place to be if you wanted a shrine to Jhonen Vasquez and/or Johnny Rotten.
Because, I’ve always thought the two are pretty similar, right?

By: Miss E

Miss E — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:47:19 +0000

To Nadi-
It’s expage.com. I think I may have had one at some point in time. Wait no i didn’t I had a Tripod page. expage was where I used to play all of those Harry Potter email rpgs. Man, I remember getting in soooo much trouble for having an email account. I think I got punished for a month over that. My parents were SO afraid about someone over the internet finding out too much about me, but within a few years my sisters had gotten their own emails, downloaded AIM and had Myspaces covered with pictures and my parents didn’t bat an eye. When I did that, I got a beating!

Where is the justice?!

By: Shay

Shay — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:51:12 +0000

Funny, I was just reminiscing with a friend about Ye Olde Days of the internets. I wrote a post about it once upon a time titled How The West Was 1.0 but never wrote the sequel.

By: January

January — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:35:25 +0000

I never did Geocities, or any of the others. My first circle of online friends were three girls on OpenDiary- one of which was a transgendered ftm that I fell very much in like with. None of us keep in touch any longer, but I still think about SkinFire sometimes. Sigh…