Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog » meme http://www.imamuseum.org/blog The IMA blog is a space to discuss everything related to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:52:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 RIP GeoCities http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/10/27/rip-geocities/ http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/10/27/rip-geocities/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:58:43 +0000 Matt http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/?p=9120 GeoCities, age 14, died on October 26, 2009. The cause of death is still unknown.

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Born mid-1995 in Southern California, GeoCities lived on the world wide web and worked it’s way into the lives of millions by introducing casual internet surfers to pop-ups, pop-unders, animated gifs, and broken html markup until it’s death in 2009.

Survivors include Yahoo, WebCrawler, AOL, Twitter, and countless others. GeoCities was preceded in death by Jeeves, Compuserve, Netscape (the browser), and Angelfire.

Memorial services will be held at http://web.archive.org. Burial will be at http://geocities.yahoo.com/. Relatives, friends, memes, trolls, and search bots are welcome.

There are several websites that made a splash via GeoCities. Kate confessed to having a fan page of some sort at one point in time… and I had a few pages lurking out there somewhere too, though I’m struggling to remember what they were. Without GeoCities, we wouldn’t have the Icy Hot Stuntaz. Thankfully, the content will never die. Find a nice collection of screen captures of classic GeoCities websites at Internet Archaeology.

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