On the topic of Geocities shutting down, I found an option in wget which ignores existing files - because Yahoo has a 503 error if you try to spider too many pages.

It's -nc which means 'no clobber' - which is the least helpful phrase considering you could say 'ignore existing'...

When you get a 503, wait about an hour, and then run wget until it fails, then wait an hour, etc, until you've got all 10mb of your webspace.

Also -np to only spider below your page on Geocities.

"no clobber" matches the shell option of the same name.

So all we've really done is replace that lot with the word "Beta".

I'm waiting to see what next big advancement in web development the angled beta graphic changes into.

It would be interesting to see the trend of using "under construction" graphics over time. At some point it just clicked that web pages are -always- under construction, and we didn't have to be as explicit about it anymore.

Web 0.9 was awesome.

I guess you could call it HTML 1.0...

I know this isn't news, the news would be that they're taking Geocities offline, but I thought this animated gif "Under Construction" archive was hilarious.

It's sort of poignant, in a way. Like, "For sale, baby shoes, never used."

"Never worn." How do you use a baby shoe?

I had the red "renovating" banner with the paintbrush ... wish I'd known then as much as I do now about the web.

There was less to know about the web back then, too. For starters, no CSS.

Time to start collecting the millions of variations on the "standard" orange RSS logo, and 80x15 badges, and social network follow buttons, et cetera.

I think he did a grep for "construct.gif". This image:

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/SiSiliconValleyVi...

Is from an ancient version of JavaDoc if I remember correctly.

Film noir under construction:

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/CaCapeCanaveralOr...

Classy.

What is up the the guy at the end with the bulging crotch?

That's what you'd call laying pipe.

Dialup users beware!

be thankful. history we can laugh at is rare.

Good gawd, y'all!

Why do I think of MTV when I see all that? Dire Straits!

Nostalgia overload.

<MARQUEE><BLINK><FRAMESET>THESE ARE AWESOME!

You forgot such gems as <font effect=emboss> and <audioscope>, which I was blissfully ignorant of until seeing Kibo make fun of them a decade ago.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/msg/dc569dfec...

My childhood coming back to me !

who else wants a "web 1.0" holiday?