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FarSky
 Post subject: Geocities Dies Today...
PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:53 pm 
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...and xkcd is there to pay tribute.

http://www.xkcd.com/
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Sometimes I think it's silly that so many social networking sites have limited design so much. Then I remember what the user-generated pages used to be like.

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And if for no other reason, it's why Facebook is superior to MySpace.

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Rest in peace, buddy. Geocities will forever live on... in my heart.
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*yawn*
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I was wondering why XKCD looked so strange this morning, but didn't have time before work to figure it out.

/mourn Geocities and their "neighborhoods"

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:23 pm 
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I remember my Geocities page.

Man.

Three cheers to XKCD for once more being spot on.
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A piece of internet history has died.

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I didn't understand the comic at all. Can somebody 'splain?

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Person A and Person B are playing a FPS.
Person A calls Person B's roomate (Person C) and convinces Person C to use the microwave, disrupting Person B's wifi
Person B's character then freezes on screen, allowing Person A to get an easy kill in game.
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Right, but what did that have to do with Geocities?

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The comic was unrelated, but the homepage was "redesigned" to mimic a typical Geocities page. It loses something without the garishly-animated background evident (as well as the scrolling Comic Sans text), but here's a screenshot:

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Ahhh, okay. I'm with it now. Thanks, yo.

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I particularly like the dark blue text on black background. People did that kind of stuff all the time on geocities. Made it impossible to read.
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