GeoCities Shut Down – Remembering The Life Before WordPress
April 27, 2009 by Shanker Bakshi
Filed under Blogging
Yahoo closes down it free web hosting site GeoCities.
Remember the days before WordPress?
Ahh, those days!
I remember I made my first website somewhere in March 2002. It was on a free-hosted space platform. There was this website freehomepage.com which was (is) offering free space to create static web pages.
I made this site to put some cool pictures of mine, my family and my friends on the web. That was pretty exciting experience at that time.
Remember college going students, and Tech Freak (Geek) guys created those beautiful pages to share some stories about them on the net.
When I heard a couple of days back about Yahoo being decided to close down its free web-hosting service GeoCities, it gave me nostalgic feeling. Though my site was not on GeoCities but still I know how much people love GeoCities pages. I know many of you guys have their first web pages drafted on Geo. It was first free platform where you can create something like that. I’m talking about a time 15 years back.
I immediately head over to my first web site to check up am I still alive there. Fortunately I’m still very much there.
When I integrated Bravenet Guest book into that site I flashed this message from my site to all my friends.
Hey guys N Gals Plz sign up here to my guest book so that I can store it to my cherished memories.
Shanker Bakshi, March 18, 2002 06:10:55 (GMT Time)
I gone through my Guest book there again; there are really some touching messages.
Do you remember the first website you created?
You can share the link of your first website created in good old days in old fashion ways in comments below and also share your first hand experience of creating a website.
Here is the screen shot of my first website created on March 18, 2002.
Image courtesy : Robert The Noid
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Your first website looks pretty nice, especially considering it’s the first one.
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Such free space on the net allow us to express and permit other the share there thoughts and view on the certain issues and events which are happening to us or happening surroundings.
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Time flies by and the good old days have gone, Shanker… I remembered that my first page was on the Yahoo Geocities and it’s mainly about the technology stuffs!
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Thanks for sharing your very first website. I can still access it and found your caricatures. Very nice! I used angelfire before, still accessible but it only redirects to my current site.
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