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Saving GeoCities and Archiving The Internet
in a thousand years from now, we'll have some old books, clay tablets, monuments of stone, but what about those "site under construction" animations from back in the day? Who's gonna save those?
published: 04 Nov 2010
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How A Designer Turned The GeoCities Backup into Art
Danish artist Richard Vijgen discusses his approach to converting a 2-terabyte disk of Geocities data into a work of art.
Find out more about Vijgen’s work and the history of Geocities here: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/a-tale-of-deleted-cities/
Lot Number: X7944.2017
Catalog Number: 102738191
© Computer History Museum
published: 05 Oct 2016
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GeoCities: 20 Years Later | Nostalgia Nerd
[Head to https://www.squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD] GeoCities, the hosting service that sparked a wealth of early internet development, creation and creativity. In this episode I'm going to explore this early internet phenomenon. I'm going to look at the history of GeoCities and then delve into the archive of sites which remain available to view and navigate.
Visit my SquareSpace Site: https://nerdland.squarespace.com/
🔗Video Links🔗
Join me for some GeoCities streams: https://www.twitch.tv/nostalgianerd
Stay updated on 'the email': https://twitter.com/nostalnerd
Search GeoCities: http://www.geocities.ws/
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org
GeoCities Gallery: https://geocities.restorativland.org/
Arc...
published: 30 Apr 2020
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Geocities Archive / Geocities Mirror / Geocities Backup - Yahoo Geocities History Website
GeoCities Archive Project - https://www.geocitiesarchive.org
In honour of the days of crazy colour schemes, flashing images, tiled backgrounds and guest books, we have released the Geocities Archive Project at https://www.geocitiesarchive.org
Geocities was a free web hosting service that was launched in November of 1994. On a corporate whim, in 2009, Yahoo! shut down Geocities, which meant years of digital data was lost to the world. This equated to around 38 million user-created webpages, rich with family photos, fledgling business profiles, and pictures that were sure to embarrass their creators many years on.
So what happened?
Geocities was acquired by Yahoo in January 1999 for $3.57 billion in Yahoo stock. Unfortunately, the new terms and conditions introduced by Yahoo! proved less ...
published: 21 Aug 2019
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Creating Account/Uploading to Geocities
This is a tutorial on how to create an account and upload using Geocities as a host.
published: 08 Nov 2015
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The early internet is breaking - here’s how the World Wide Web from the 90s on will be saved
The early web looked different than it does today. In the 1990s, the internet was intimate and a bit amateur. Websites were made by everyday people on their personal computers, desktops, with very minimal knowledge of coding or HTML needed.
Software becomes obsolete — Flash which made much of the early web run, will be shut down in 2020.
People stop paying for domain names.
Companies like Netscape or GeoCities or MySpace that host websites and online communities go out of business, or get sold (to Yahoo! for example).
The internet is not forever, it can break and disappear.
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied are part of a growing group of people who preserve and archive our online digital history. They see the web from the 90s and 2000s as an artifact, at times, even, Net Art.
...
published: 18 Jul 2019
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110.08 - Tech News - Geocities is gone
Uploaded by blip.tv.
published: 12 Nov 2009
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Geocities
Provided to YouTube by Routenote
Geocities · Kaj Strife
Geocities
℗ Kaj Strife
Released on: 2021-08-06
Auto-generated by YouTube.
published: 10 Jun 2022
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Building a Geocities website in 1998
In the 90s, it seemed like everyone with the internet had a website. These websites were personal, unpolished, and pushed the constraints of the early web to their limits. Building websites was a major part of the early web, and it was one of my favorite things to do as a kid. Let’s take a look at early web design, Microsoft FrontPage 98, and then build our own website like it’s 1998.
00:00 Intro
00:20 90s web design wasn't all terrible
00:36 WebMonkey promoted good web design practices
01:05 Website creation goes mainstream with WYSIWYG editors
02:07 Hands-on FrontPage 98
02:20 FrontPage themes were peak 90s design
03:25 Making my own Geocities website
06:01 Making the content pages: Gallery, Timeline, Tips, Downloads, Predictions
08:37 Browsing my new site in Netscape
09:50 These websi...
published: 04 May 2024
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What do GeoCities sites look like today? We look at six pages from the glorious heyday of GeoCities
It’s been more than a decade since GeoCities closed for good and two decades since Yahoo! bought the company despite having no idea on how to make it profitable. It is pretty hard to track down those old GeoCities sites, but some are still up today. Let's take a trip down memory lane and explore some of them.
For more on Geocities: https://thetouchback.com/geocities-sucked-but-thats-what-made-it-great/
GeoCities Archive: Removed by YouTube
Don't forget to visit The Touchback: https://thetouchback.com
published: 10 May 2020
3:09
Saving GeoCities and Archiving The Internet
in a thousand years from now, we'll have some old books, clay tablets, monuments of stone, but what about those "site under construction" animations from back i...
in a thousand years from now, we'll have some old books, clay tablets, monuments of stone, but what about those "site under construction" animations from back in the day? Who's gonna save those?
https://wn.com/Saving_Geocities_And_Archiving_The_Internet
in a thousand years from now, we'll have some old books, clay tablets, monuments of stone, but what about those "site under construction" animations from back in the day? Who's gonna save those?
- published: 04 Nov 2010
- views: 4244
1:07
How A Designer Turned The GeoCities Backup into Art
Danish artist Richard Vijgen discusses his approach to converting a 2-terabyte disk of Geocities data into a work of art.
Find out more about Vijgen’s work and...
Danish artist Richard Vijgen discusses his approach to converting a 2-terabyte disk of Geocities data into a work of art.
Find out more about Vijgen’s work and the history of Geocities here: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/a-tale-of-deleted-cities/
Lot Number: X7944.2017
Catalog Number: 102738191
© Computer History Museum
https://wn.com/How_A_Designer_Turned_The_Geocities_Backup_Into_Art
Danish artist Richard Vijgen discusses his approach to converting a 2-terabyte disk of Geocities data into a work of art.
Find out more about Vijgen’s work and the history of Geocities here: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/a-tale-of-deleted-cities/
Lot Number: X7944.2017
Catalog Number: 102738191
© Computer History Museum
- published: 05 Oct 2016
- views: 1041
15:02
GeoCities: 20 Years Later | Nostalgia Nerd
[Head to https://www.squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD] GeoCities, the hosting ...
[Head to https://www.squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD] GeoCities, the hosting service that sparked a wealth of early internet development, creation and creativity. In this episode I'm going to explore this early internet phenomenon. I'm going to look at the history of GeoCities and then delve into the archive of sites which remain available to view and navigate.
Visit my SquareSpace Site: https://nerdland.squarespace.com/
🔗Video Links🔗
Join me for some GeoCities streams: https://www.twitch.tv/nostalgianerd
Stay updated on 'the email': https://twitter.com/nostalnerd
Search GeoCities: http://www.geocities.ws/
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org
GeoCities Gallery: https://geocities.restorativland.org/
Archive Team: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities
GeoCities Torrent: https://nnerd.es/GeoCities
I think they're testing deodorant??: https://geocities.restorativland.org/SiliconValley/4806/
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My Retro Tech book: http://nnerd.me/HVFtSB (2nd edition is out!)
Desk Shelves for Retro Computers: http://nnerd.me/RetroShelves (Because you're worth it)
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🎥 Equipment 🎥
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In video links and references are provided where possible. If you believe I have forgotten to attribute anything, please let me know (drop me an email via. the about page on Youtube or send me a tweet), so I can add it here. Apologies if I have missed anything out, it takes time to make these videos and therefore it can be easy to forget things or make a mistake.
Errors and omissions excepted.
Some material in this video may be used under Fair Dealing / Fair Use. Where under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (UK: Sections 29 and 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988), allowance is made for purposes including parody, quotation, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research. Fair Dealing / Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
https://wn.com/Geocities_20_Years_Later_|_Nostalgia_Nerd
[Head to https://www.squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD] GeoCities, the hosting service that sparked a wealth of early internet development, creation and creativity. In this episode I'm going to explore this early internet phenomenon. I'm going to look at the history of GeoCities and then delve into the archive of sites which remain available to view and navigate.
Visit my SquareSpace Site: https://nerdland.squarespace.com/
🔗Video Links🔗
Join me for some GeoCities streams: https://www.twitch.tv/nostalgianerd
Stay updated on 'the email': https://twitter.com/nostalnerd
Search GeoCities: http://www.geocities.ws/
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org
GeoCities Gallery: https://geocities.restorativland.org/
Archive Team: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities
GeoCities Torrent: https://nnerd.es/GeoCities
I think they're testing deodorant??: https://geocities.restorativland.org/SiliconValley/4806/
🏆 Support 🏆
Support my channel, get exclusive videos & perks, as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/nostalgianerd from just $1
🏪 NN Shop & Affiliate Links! 🏪
My eBay Shop: https://nnerd.es/NerdShop (Now Re-open!)
My Retro Tech book: http://nnerd.me/HVFtSB (2nd edition is out!)
Desk Shelves for Retro Computers: http://nnerd.me/RetroShelves (Because you're worth it)
🍻 Share/Like 🍻
If you wish to share this video in forums, social media, on your website, or ANYWHERE else, please do so! It helps tremendously with the channel! Also, giving a thumb up or down also helps with visibility on Youtube. Many thanks!
📟 Subcribe 📟
Click to Subscribe: https://nnerd.es/2K4TYvX
📱 Join me on Social Media 📱
🐥 http://www.twitter.com/nostalnerd
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👱🏼📘 http://www.facebook.com/nostalnerd
📸 http://www.instagram.com/nostalgianerd
🌍 http://www.nostalgianerd.com
🎥 Equipment 🎥
Lumix G6 with Vario 14-42mm Lens
Nikon D3200 with 40mm Macro
Corel Video Studio Ultimate 2019
Corel Paint Shop Pro 2019
Blue Snowball Microphone
📜 Resources 📜
In video links and references are provided where possible. If you believe I have forgotten to attribute anything, please let me know (drop me an email via. the about page on Youtube or send me a tweet), so I can add it here. Apologies if I have missed anything out, it takes time to make these videos and therefore it can be easy to forget things or make a mistake.
Errors and omissions excepted.
Some material in this video may be used under Fair Dealing / Fair Use. Where under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (UK: Sections 29 and 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988), allowance is made for purposes including parody, quotation, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research. Fair Dealing / Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
- published: 30 Apr 2020
- views: 151286
2:15
Geocities Archive / Geocities Mirror / Geocities Backup - Yahoo Geocities History Website
GeoCities Archive Project - https://www.geocitiesarchive.org
In honour of the days of crazy colour schemes, flashing images, tiled backgrounds and guest books,...
GeoCities Archive Project - https://www.geocitiesarchive.org
In honour of the days of crazy colour schemes, flashing images, tiled backgrounds and guest books, we have released the Geocities Archive Project at https://www.geocitiesarchive.org
Geocities was a free web hosting service that was launched in November of 1994. On a corporate whim, in 2009, Yahoo! shut down Geocities, which meant years of digital data was lost to the world. This equated to around 38 million user-created webpages, rich with family photos, fledgling business profiles, and pictures that were sure to embarrass their creators many years on.
So what happened?
Geocities was acquired by Yahoo in January 1999 for $3.57 billion in Yahoo stock. Unfortunately, the new terms and conditions introduced by Yahoo! proved less than popular with the vast majority of users: Yahoo! stated that it now owned all content within Geocities. After trying to provide a more premium service by offering vanity urls, rumours began to surface during 2001 that Geocities would be closing. Yahoo! would go on to effectively destroy fifteen years of early internet history overnight as many users did not have the ability to make a copy of their website before it was taken offline.
On April 23, 2009, Geocities stopped allowing any new member registrations and announced that the United States version of Geocities would be shutting down on 26th of October 2009.
Good news!
So, with some tricky coding, and driven by the belief that this early internet history should not be lost on future generations, we have searched, indexed and made available for search over 40 million user created files.
We hope you're ready for an entertaining and nostalgic walk down memory lane.
The team @ Geocities Archive
https://wn.com/Geocities_Archive_Geocities_Mirror_Geocities_Backup_Yahoo_Geocities_History_Website
GeoCities Archive Project - https://www.geocitiesarchive.org
In honour of the days of crazy colour schemes, flashing images, tiled backgrounds and guest books, we have released the Geocities Archive Project at https://www.geocitiesarchive.org
Geocities was a free web hosting service that was launched in November of 1994. On a corporate whim, in 2009, Yahoo! shut down Geocities, which meant years of digital data was lost to the world. This equated to around 38 million user-created webpages, rich with family photos, fledgling business profiles, and pictures that were sure to embarrass their creators many years on.
So what happened?
Geocities was acquired by Yahoo in January 1999 for $3.57 billion in Yahoo stock. Unfortunately, the new terms and conditions introduced by Yahoo! proved less than popular with the vast majority of users: Yahoo! stated that it now owned all content within Geocities. After trying to provide a more premium service by offering vanity urls, rumours began to surface during 2001 that Geocities would be closing. Yahoo! would go on to effectively destroy fifteen years of early internet history overnight as many users did not have the ability to make a copy of their website before it was taken offline.
On April 23, 2009, Geocities stopped allowing any new member registrations and announced that the United States version of Geocities would be shutting down on 26th of October 2009.
Good news!
So, with some tricky coding, and driven by the belief that this early internet history should not be lost on future generations, we have searched, indexed and made available for search over 40 million user created files.
We hope you're ready for an entertaining and nostalgic walk down memory lane.
The team @ Geocities Archive
- published: 21 Aug 2019
- views: 811
3:13
Creating Account/Uploading to Geocities
This is a tutorial on how to create an account and upload using Geocities as a host.
This is a tutorial on how to create an account and upload using Geocities as a host.
https://wn.com/Creating_Account_Uploading_To_Geocities
This is a tutorial on how to create an account and upload using Geocities as a host.
- published: 08 Nov 2015
- views: 2850
9:03
The early internet is breaking - here’s how the World Wide Web from the 90s on will be saved
The early web looked different than it does today. In the 1990s, the internet was intimate and a bit amateur. Websites were made by everyday people on their per...
The early web looked different than it does today. In the 1990s, the internet was intimate and a bit amateur. Websites were made by everyday people on their personal computers, desktops, with very minimal knowledge of coding or HTML needed.
Software becomes obsolete — Flash which made much of the early web run, will be shut down in 2020.
People stop paying for domain names.
Companies like Netscape or GeoCities or MySpace that host websites and online communities go out of business, or get sold (to Yahoo! for example).
The internet is not forever, it can break and disappear.
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied are part of a growing group of people who preserve and archive our online digital history. They see the web from the 90s and 2000s as an artifact, at times, even, Net Art.
Dragan/Olia's Tumblr: https://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/
Webrecorder: https://webrecorder.io/
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Become a member of Quartz, your exclusive guide to the global economy: https://qz.com/become-a-member/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=early_web&utm_campaign=101&utm_content=description_member
WATCH OUR EXCLUSIVE SERIES; Because China
https://qz.com/se/because-china/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=early_web&utm_campaign=101&utm_content=description_series
Quartz is a digital news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at https://qz.com/ to read more.
https://wn.com/The_Early_Internet_Is_Breaking_Here’S_How_The_World_Wide_Web_From_The_90S_On_Will_Be_Saved
The early web looked different than it does today. In the 1990s, the internet was intimate and a bit amateur. Websites were made by everyday people on their personal computers, desktops, with very minimal knowledge of coding or HTML needed.
Software becomes obsolete — Flash which made much of the early web run, will be shut down in 2020.
People stop paying for domain names.
Companies like Netscape or GeoCities or MySpace that host websites and online communities go out of business, or get sold (to Yahoo! for example).
The internet is not forever, it can break and disappear.
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied are part of a growing group of people who preserve and archive our online digital history. They see the web from the 90s and 2000s as an artifact, at times, even, Net Art.
Dragan/Olia's Tumblr: https://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/
Webrecorder: https://webrecorder.io/
--
Become a member of Quartz, your exclusive guide to the global economy: https://qz.com/become-a-member/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=early_web&utm_campaign=101&utm_content=description_member
WATCH OUR EXCLUSIVE SERIES; Because China
https://qz.com/se/because-china/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=early_web&utm_campaign=101&utm_content=description_series
Quartz is a digital news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at https://qz.com/ to read more.
- published: 18 Jul 2019
- views: 258899
1:44
Geocities
Provided to YouTube by Routenote
Geocities · Kaj Strife
Geocities
℗ Kaj Strife
Released on: 2021-08-06
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Routenote
Geocities · Kaj Strife
Geocities
℗ Kaj Strife
Released on: 2021-08-06
Auto-generated by YouTube.
https://wn.com/Geocities
Provided to YouTube by Routenote
Geocities · Kaj Strife
Geocities
℗ Kaj Strife
Released on: 2021-08-06
Auto-generated by YouTube.
- published: 10 Jun 2022
- views: 644
10:48
Building a Geocities website in 1998
In the 90s, it seemed like everyone with the internet had a website. These websites were personal, unpolished, and pushed the constraints of the early web to th...
In the 90s, it seemed like everyone with the internet had a website. These websites were personal, unpolished, and pushed the constraints of the early web to their limits. Building websites was a major part of the early web, and it was one of my favorite things to do as a kid. Let’s take a look at early web design, Microsoft FrontPage 98, and then build our own website like it’s 1998.
00:00 Intro
00:20 90s web design wasn't all terrible
00:36 WebMonkey promoted good web design practices
01:05 Website creation goes mainstream with WYSIWYG editors
02:07 Hands-on FrontPage 98
02:20 FrontPage themes were peak 90s design
03:25 Making my own Geocities website
06:01 Making the content pages: Gallery, Timeline, Tips, Downloads, Predictions
08:37 Browsing my new site in Netscape
09:50 These websites took a lot of effort to build
10:06 No wonder they are all still under construction
10:18 Final thoughts
#retrocomputing #frontpage #90s #oldweb
https://wn.com/Building_A_Geocities_Website_In_1998
In the 90s, it seemed like everyone with the internet had a website. These websites were personal, unpolished, and pushed the constraints of the early web to their limits. Building websites was a major part of the early web, and it was one of my favorite things to do as a kid. Let’s take a look at early web design, Microsoft FrontPage 98, and then build our own website like it’s 1998.
00:00 Intro
00:20 90s web design wasn't all terrible
00:36 WebMonkey promoted good web design practices
01:05 Website creation goes mainstream with WYSIWYG editors
02:07 Hands-on FrontPage 98
02:20 FrontPage themes were peak 90s design
03:25 Making my own Geocities website
06:01 Making the content pages: Gallery, Timeline, Tips, Downloads, Predictions
08:37 Browsing my new site in Netscape
09:50 These websites took a lot of effort to build
10:06 No wonder they are all still under construction
10:18 Final thoughts
#retrocomputing #frontpage #90s #oldweb
- published: 04 May 2024
- views: 3067
9:01
What do GeoCities sites look like today? We look at six pages from the glorious heyday of GeoCities
It’s been more than a decade since GeoCities closed for good and two decades since Yahoo! bought the company despite having no idea on how to make it profitable...
It’s been more than a decade since GeoCities closed for good and two decades since Yahoo! bought the company despite having no idea on how to make it profitable. It is pretty hard to track down those old GeoCities sites, but some are still up today. Let's take a trip down memory lane and explore some of them.
For more on Geocities: https://thetouchback.com/geocities-sucked-but-thats-what-made-it-great/
GeoCities Archive: Removed by YouTube
Don't forget to visit The Touchback: https://thetouchback.com
https://wn.com/What_Do_Geocities_Sites_Look_Like_Today_We_Look_At_Six_Pages_From_The_Glorious_Heyday_Of_Geocities
It’s been more than a decade since GeoCities closed for good and two decades since Yahoo! bought the company despite having no idea on how to make it profitable. It is pretty hard to track down those old GeoCities sites, but some are still up today. Let's take a trip down memory lane and explore some of them.
For more on Geocities: https://thetouchback.com/geocities-sucked-but-thats-what-made-it-great/
GeoCities Archive: Removed by YouTube
Don't forget to visit The Touchback: https://thetouchback.com
- published: 10 May 2020
- views: 1826