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By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » Geocities, and snippets of personal internet history

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:57:40 +0000

[...] Maria Diaz said in her post about Geocities really rang true to me: What this ending of Geocities does make me realize is, for all our scary [...]

By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2009-04-27

Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2009-04-27 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:30:39 +0000

[...] RIP Geocities « Maria Diaz "What this ending of Geocities does make me realize is, for all our scary talk of how we need to watch what our slutty, drunken selves put online because oh no someone who may pay us to do something might see it, is how not permanent so much of the web truly is. This is why I think talking about the Internet’s history is so important. So much of what happened is gone now. We have to discuss it, there’s so little evidence of it but our memories and a few pages with dead links." (tags: internet history community geocities) [...]

By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » Sunday night

Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » Sunday night — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:16:44 +0000

[...] by this post and this post, I was all motivated earlier to settle down tonight and write a post about my history [...]

By: As URLs Go By « Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby

As URLs Go By « Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:19:37 +0000

[...] RIP GeoCities by Maria Diaz: “What this ending of Geocities does make me realize is, for all our scary talk of how we need to watch what our slutty, drunken selves put online because oh no someone who may pay us to do something might see it, is how not permanent so much of the web truly is. This is why I think talking about the Internet’s history is so important. So much of what happened is gone now. We have to discuss it, there’s so little evidence of it but our memories and a few pages with dead links.” Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Photoshop WarsI didn’t know my driver’s license photo was *that* bad18 years onlineHistory of the Internet [...]

By: Atherton Bartelby

Atherton Bartelby — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:16:37 +0000

I was beginning to think that I was the only one waxing elegiac about GeoCities’ demise; thank you so much for proving me otherwise. I was likely one of your SoHo “neighbors,” and I could not agree with you more regarding the importance of talking about the Internet’s history. Thanks for sharing your experience.

By: slm

slm — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:57:46 +0000

i still remember my page, now home to probably the lone Souls fanpage in existence. (a band i saw on tour once & liked b/c they had a female singer. hahah oh to be 19 again.)