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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by chimeracoder on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:29PM (#7301129)
I am so, so, so sad that Yahoo! shut down Geocities, because they took with them the Pokemon fan website that I made when I was just learning this whole 'HTML' thing for the first time.

I even remember the exact full URL of the website[0]. But between the demise of Geocities and the demise of my 386's hard drive, that piece of nostalgia is gone forever.

I remember dedicating a page to all of the different "strategies" to catch Mew in Gen I games, before we all collectively decided that this was impossible to do without a Gameshark[1]. Little did we know that there was a technique - it just wouldn't be discovered until ~2003[2]]!

[0] For those just tuning in this century, Geocities would provide webspace (that's a word I haven't used in a while!) and your homepage would be a URL of the format http://www.geocities.com/Foo/Bar/1234

[1] "When I was your age, Action Replay was a Gameshark..."

[2] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by TheZenPsycho on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:42PM (#7301208)
have you tried looking for it here?

https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by chimeracoder on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:24PM (#7302097)
Unfortunately, it's neither there nor on Reocities. :(
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by corobo on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:43PM (#7301217)
Have you tried changing geocities.com to reocities.com?

There was a huge push on archiveteam to scrape as much as they could before it was shut down. If it was saved it'll have the same url on reocities

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by infinity on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:41AM (#7303894)
A big part of the GeoCities content has been available as a torrent file from a group called the Archive Team and maybe you can still download it:

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities

The file was huge, about several hundred gigabyte. I didn't download it, because I don't have enough space and downloading it would take ages with my slow connection.

On http://reocities.com/ you can browse through some of the old pages and sites, but many things are broken now, missing images.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by bandrews on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:06PM (#7302019)
You're not the only one. https://github.com/alaiacano/geocities-theme
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by givehimagun on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:33PM (#7301845)
This reminded me of my pokemon fan site (Poketown) from 2000.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000510132913/http://poketown.o...

Looks like I was a pattern of grid design (ala tables) back then.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by zarify on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:22PM (#7302089)
Has everyone made a Pokemon site as part of some rite of passage or something? One of the first things I did to teach myself Perl and HTML back in the day was write a Pokedex page.

Maybe Pokemon can be the new Hello World.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by sgift on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:23AM (#7303834)
I made a school website instead. It got official and to thank me for the good deed they removed our class from the school history when they build the new website and converted the image archive, because we weren't up to their standard or whatever. Catholics .. gotta love them.

I still remember sitting there hours and days banging my head on the table how to get this school logo exactly in the center at the top of the page where it had to stay visible even if the page was scrolled, because "it has to be up there. And it must be always visible." Fun times.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by givehimagun on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:38PM (#7302917)
I like it! Makes it more interesting than hello world and a little bit of a throwback to the years of yester.
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by rvschuilenburg on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:25AM (#7304033)
That's awesome! I remember most pages looked like that back in the day actually. I even offered it as a 'service' to Dragonball Z websites. It existed of just a background image with all the borders/effects in it, and transparent tables on top of it with a content structure just like yours. Good times.
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by jfc on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:11AM (#7304665)
Geocities was awesome. I used it for an upcoming events website while I was in school. I remember thinking how cool it was when I bought a domain name for the site. When good ol' Geocities went away, it was really sad. Kind of felt like the end of an era.
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by krisgee on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:54AM (#7305235)
Luckily the title of babies first scripts as well as annoying autoplay, flashing gifs and terrible layouts had been taken over by tumblr. If you ever feel the need to know why 99% of professional devs aren't 12, check out a couple of "custom" tumblr styles.
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