| Posted at 22:57 on July 11th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Member Retired Gumby Posts: 740 | They just sent out emails about it, and included the official date of the closing, october 26th 2009. Quote: Important notice: GeoCities is closing. Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer, We're writing to let you know that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009. On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files. What You Need to Do If you'd like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you've posted online, you need to act now by choosing one of the following options: • Move your site to Yahoo! Web Hosting. We know your files are important to you, and we want to make moving to Web Hosting as easy and affordable as we can. For a limited time, you can move your files automatically, take advantage of terrific features like a personalized domain name and email, even redirect your GeoCities web address to your new site — all for only $4.99 a month for a full year. For more information and complete terms, please see our special offer now. • Download your files to your own computer. With your pages and images saved offline, you can re-create your site with any hosting provider. To quickly download your published files, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As... from the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save. Learn more about downloading your files. Don't Wait Please be aware that after October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable. If you'd like to save your files, you must download them now or move to Yahoo! Web Hosting. If you need assistance, please visit the help center. We want to thank you for being a GeoCities customer, and hope you continue to enjoy our other Yahoo! services. Best regards, The Yahoo! GeoCities team ----- At the end of the day, you're left with a bent fork & a pissed off rhino. |
| Posted at 05:52 on July 12th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11126 | Quote: To quickly download your published files, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As... from the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save. Learn more about downloading your files. This paragraph is comedy gold  ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
| Posted at 18:36 on July 12th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Retired Gumby Posts: 740 | Yeah, especially since it's a hell of a lot easier to do it by going into your file manager (where you have the links to all (or at least most) of your files on a single page), the right click the links to the files & "save link/target as..". Yahoo is just chock full of dimwits. ----- At the end of the day, you're left with a bent fork & a pissed off rhino. |
| Posted at 17:08 on October 25th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Retired Gumby Posts: 740 | Just a heads up, geocities closes tomorrow. If any of you have anything you want off of any geocities site,you'd better hurry up & grab it. ----- At the end of the day, you're left with a bent fork & a pissed off rhino. |
| Posted at 22:11 on October 26th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11126 | Thanks for the reminder! Since Tuss doesn't want to do anything with it, I quickly snatched his site. Which turned out to be harder than I expected... after saving a couple of pages, Geocities started showing 503 errors which disappeared again after an hour or so. Then, I could save some pages again before the error started showing up again and so on. ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
| Posted at 23:48 on October 26th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Member Retired Gumby Posts: 1092 | I've got old games from geocities pages. Including some weird programs, like one to see which christian religous labor you could do (seems to be for anglicans). And I think I left somewhere a few of those ESP training programs (trust me, they don't work. Sadly) and similar things. |
| Posted at 18:50 on November 25th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Member Student Gumby Posts: 25 | finally |
| Posted at 11:56 on December 18th, 2009 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Student Gumby Posts: 31 | There is one more service available, Tripod from Lycos! That's where I made magic happen (In a non sexually related way). |
| Posted at 07:20 on March 3rd, 2010 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Retired Gumby Posts: 740 | Apparently several sites have popped up with archived versions of old geocities pages: http://www.oocities.com/ http://reocities.com/ http://geocities.ws/ http://geociti.es/neighborhoods.html Ucoz seems to be in the process of putting up a geocities archive: http://geocities-closing.com/ ...and apparently the japanese version of geocities is still alive & well: http://geocities.yahoo.co.jp/ ----- At the end of the day, you're left with a bent fork & a pissed off rhino. |
| Posted at 09:06 on March 3rd, 2010 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11126 | While I appreciate the idea... it's a copyright nightmare. ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |