XKCD GeoCities Tribute

XKCD has been redesigned in nostalgic Early 1990s GeoCities style to commemorate the demise of the GeoCities website.

XKCD

I'm sitting here laughing: it is a bittersweet laugh. I remember my first web page turning out looking like this page. :')

Scroll all the way down the page. I'm surprised to find myself feeling nostalgic for 1995 now. It's bad enough I'll be losing old skool Teletext and Ceefax by Wednesday when the analogue TV signal goes away.

And by the way, the data on my own GeoCities sites have all been saved. I'll have to put them up somewhere else soon. I will keep you apprised on that.

Right

Sod it. I'm going to get shaved and sorted for town now. I'll be back online again later this evening.

Of Beginnings and Endings

I posted my opening entries to the Vedic Maths India blog on Blogger this morning. I actually felt nervous about this. As a contributor, I have an awesome responsibility to the blog, to keep up adding posts to keep the spirit of this blog alive.

Today is the day, of course, that GeoCities died. I made sure to secure all of the files from my numerous GeoCities sites, and looked over them one last time.

One of the pages I managed to save was the Flavia Prunes tribute page on the old Zauber Meister site. In fact, that was the first page I saved. As and when I get the chance to, I'll go and see if the old Rowanwood site is still open - and I'll put up some of my GeoCities stuff there. I noted that the XKCD site put up a tribute to GeoCities today. It felt sad and actually nostalgic to look at. I remember designing websites that looked like that.

Hard to imagine there being a "back in the day" for the internet already. But like Star Trek and Doctor Who, I guess the internet is now old enough for nostalgia.

Certainly it's old enough now that we can be reminded that there was an age before goatse, 2girls1cup and lemonparty, before our heads started needing brain bleach.



Farewell, GeoCities.

Truly, this has been a day of both new beginnings and sad endings. And there are more endings to come during the week.

Supplemental: I've just gone over to the GeoCities site after midnight, and typed in the old addresses. Yup, they're all gone now. GeoCities is officially history.

I wonder if anybody saved the Gasman's website?