GeoCities: 20 Years Later | Nostalgia Nerd
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4 жыл бұрын[Head to www.squarespace.com/nostalgia... to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD] GeoCities, the hosting service that sparked a wealth of early internet development, creation and creativity. In this episode I'm going to explore this early internet phenomenon. I'm going to look at the history of GeoCities and then delve into the archive of sites which remain available to view and navigate.
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@urmie 4 жыл бұрын
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@tainteddragon2438 4 жыл бұрын
lol these pages used to annoy me. Either people took months to do anything or they end up being abandoned. I usually code the site on the side and link it up with the rest of the site when completed which usually didn't take too long. What took the longest and ages to do was uploading multiple files with dial-up connection. DX
@juomariturmio 4 жыл бұрын
This comment is optimized for Internet Explorer.
@Ndlanding 4 жыл бұрын
@@juomariturmio Which version of IE?
@hedgehog3180 4 жыл бұрын
There was a site which compiled all of those kinds of banners.
@wrightmf 4 жыл бұрын
I remember a webpage that had several jpgs and gifs of "under construction" images along with comments. i.e. "under construction but look at that shovel go!" I think this was on Geocities.
@rayceeya8659 4 жыл бұрын
I remember one time I found a page that had a full implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in HTML where the author coded every single outcome as an individual page. It was a big beautiful mess and I loved it.
@segatendo4705 2 жыл бұрын
Woahhhhhh
@gregledbetter5942 2 жыл бұрын
Life before JavaScript
@ukeyaoitrash2618 Жыл бұрын
... am I crazy for wanting to try this on neocities? XD
@spades911 Жыл бұрын
Wow
@wulfherecyning1282 4 жыл бұрын
It sure was inconvenient, the internet back then, but even so I miss the sense of freedom, and spending more time on user-made websites than on 3 or 4 corporatised sites.
@jamesgrimwood1285 4 жыл бұрын
Sometimes half the fun was getting connected at all. Finding something to look at online was a bonus. This comment best viewed using Netscape 4 at a resolution of 800x600 with at least 256 colours.
@wulfherecyning1282 4 жыл бұрын
@@jamesgrimwood1285 Totally agreed. It's odd; I still find myself doing the mindless dossing around looking for something, but that's because I've been spoiled by overabundance. Back then it could take hours to find something, but in the meantime you would happen across some cool communities and perhaps even make a friend. When you found what you wanted, you savored it, that juicy internet morsel. I guess this is the elitism of the old aged, huh? Using the internet purposively back then required some level of skill and knowledge, so you were satisfied by results. Perhaps I'm just bitter that I've lost some level of exclusivity with the net, the same as how any for example geek community feels upon the mainstreaming of their hobby?
@mfbfreak 4 жыл бұрын
@@dean.478 Totally untrue. You can already see that in this video with that flat earth nonsense. There were already many hoaxes in the early days of the internet. I also remember stuff like the bonsai kittens hoax, and there was probably more i just don't remember.
@florkgagga 4 жыл бұрын
I remember the days when there were booklets like small telephone books, with web addresses and descriptions...hard to imagine they were used at all, became obsolete very fast.
@meetoo594 4 жыл бұрын
@Mike G when I first went online with the www (had used bbs and educational networks before that) it was possible to visit every page in every public facing site in an evening or 2. Now it would take a lifetime to browse a single site like Facebook. Incredible how the internet has grown in such a tiny timeframe.
@robintst 4 жыл бұрын
I miss how these sites so directly reflected nerd culture of the time. Everything was Star Trek, Babylon 5, X-Files, Xena/Hercules, Simpsons, Doom, Quake, etc. and so much of the humor associated with it was still very "in-jokey."
@robintst 4 жыл бұрын
@Smattless Yeah, they're not at all the same now. It was a looked down upon sub-culture back then, now it's socially acceptable mainstream.
@weab 4 жыл бұрын
@Sensible Talk Today's internet culture is just "pop culture" + extra marketing.
@Faustelune 4 жыл бұрын
Boy does this ever take me back. Endless animated gif, webrings and .txt document downloads for Game Genie codes and "insider information" on movies and endless MIDI files. Also, don't forget
@davidmcgill1000 4 жыл бұрын
Whee!
@georgeprout42 4 жыл бұрын
I think it was also the law back then to have an animated "under construction" GIF
@tainteddragon2438 4 жыл бұрын
vgmusic.com is still live and kicking for video game midis. For me in the 90's marquees and blinking text were cool but not as cool as audioscopes when paired with midi music. 😎 Back then, I made websites that I collected and compiled DBZ animated gifs. I know that was kind of wrong but I was a kid. lol I eventually made my own animations using screen caps from emulation then worked through an animated gif program. I even drew a few too, which is a bit crude at the time since it was before laser mice. XD
@meetoo594 4 жыл бұрын
@@tainteddragon2438 I coded quite a few websites for businesses back in the 90s. One was for a dog rescue service and they insisted on having midi music playing on the site. The tune they went with was 'how much is that doggy in the window' which seems very inappropriate with hindsight lol
@SamButlerUK 4 жыл бұрын
Webrings!
@Listersmate2 3 жыл бұрын
GeoCities actually allowed people to "Surf" the Internet back in the day. Now everything is controlled by Google, Yahoo & Facebook. There's not much "Surfing the Web" these days. :-(
@marcusmalone 4 жыл бұрын
'God I miss the early internet.' Not a day goes by without me thinking exactly the same thing 😞
@belstar1128 4 жыл бұрын
I think the best years of the internet was the mid to late 2000s not the 90s it was way too slow and lacking media
@tainteddragon2438 4 жыл бұрын
I miss it too as well. It was so much more coder friendly. There is way too many web browsers nowdays. The only thing I don't miss too much is uploading multiple files to free web services with a dial-up connection. The timeout failures were a total pain. -_-
@marcusmalone 4 жыл бұрын
@Sensible Talk dunno, pros and cons I guess! Wish we could somehow have the best of both, e.g. media streaming etc plus genuine 'wild west' spaces!
@marcusmalone 4 жыл бұрын
@@belstar1128 I'd count anything pre 2007 approx as the 'good old days'!
@marcusmalone 4 жыл бұрын
@@tainteddragon2438 100%!
@jayt1077 4 жыл бұрын
That Space Jam site is still up after all this time.
@CourtneyCoulson 4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how people have always had this urge to share their lives, to draw something on the cave wall to say "I'm here, I exist". People on social media overshare these days but it's more polished, it's all in the name of creating a brand or an image. Where as these Geocities sites are so innocent, just a place to collect all their interests and hobbies.
@aniym21000 3 жыл бұрын
People's social media content is a means to an end, the end being validation via comments, likes, affiliate link clicks. Old Geocities/Angelfire sites had a content style that was purely personal. It wasn't designed to be outrage bait, to go viral or to be 'mic drop' moments. Social media had a different culture that incentivized all that.
@gregledbetter5942 2 жыл бұрын
@@aniym21000 solid Point made
@gregledbetter5942 2 жыл бұрын
I like the way you express this concept
@potita24 2 жыл бұрын
Since the pyramid were built and all cave paintings were painted
@ukeyaoitrash2618 Жыл бұрын
N E O C I T I E S!! :D
@OldUKAds 4 жыл бұрын
I loved Geocities. It was influential in my life. I learnt HTML, I made sites on there, it led to my career in web design then marketing. It felt like a community. You could literally get to know other people with related sites and build a community. And while ultimately Geocities itself was in control, it didn't feel like that. You felt like it was your territory. You built it. It was yours. You knew many of the other people doing the sites. I miss this time.
@ukeyaoitrash2618 Жыл бұрын
N E O C I T I E S!! :D
@AllAmericanGuyExpert Жыл бұрын
I hated Geocities. On the odd occasion I found a link to one, it was usually due to an unusually sane author who had some actual content. Yeah, I equate it with the mind-numbing parade of horribles of the WWW: AOL, MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, Tick Tok. I made fun of this "homepage" epidemic early and often. Content is king for me, not DIY fake/social garbage.
@castorchua Жыл бұрын
You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain
@d_vibe-swe 4 жыл бұрын
I remember there was this phenomena called "Web rings" in the 90's aswell.
@vcolinc 4 жыл бұрын
Phenomenon YOU WANKAH 😄
@GrandAdmiralGamez 4 жыл бұрын
I would browse those for hours looking at various anime sites and Java games. Geocities and Tripod were fun times.
@FlyboyHelosim 4 жыл бұрын
I always thought they were to do with online paedophile rings.
@GamingDreamer 4 жыл бұрын
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time
@markboz3366 4 жыл бұрын
Why is it that when I see "Web rings" now I think dodgy blokes swapping dodgy images.
@aw34565 4 жыл бұрын
Always thought that Yahoo shuttering GeoCities was an act of wanton vandalism. As well as the half built personal pages, the Internet also lost a lot of rich content when GeoCities closed.
@chrispza 4 жыл бұрын
aw34565 This sort of commercial rape was widespread then, and still is now. ¡Yahoo! gobbled up eGroups.com, flickr, and many others. And recently we saw Go-Ogle throw Google+ under the bus (there is a website dedicated solely to listing the failed and abandoned Google ventures. (edit: killedbygoogle.com) (site does not open on my old iPhoney, so might be dead link). The unkindest cut of all, however, was Verizon's purchase and immediate gutting of Yahoo!, and the destruction of many thriving subcultures with the emasculation of tumblr.
@owwz9080 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if those that shout "rape" etc would be willing themselves to pay the $$$ keeping such a huge thing alive. Yahoo etc are commercial companies, they exist to make money, obviously none would've come from this thing, so it makes sense to close it.
@quietusplus1221 3 жыл бұрын
@@chrispza I'm not sure you know what "rape" means. Please adjust your vocabulary.
@thrdeye7304 3 жыл бұрын
@@quietusplus1221 I'm not sure you know some words have more than one meaning. Please read a dictionary.
@locke103 3 жыл бұрын
@@quietusplus1221 i'm not sure you know what "context" is.
@mcrecordings 4 жыл бұрын
GeoCities was already a bit of a joke when I started using the internet in the (very) early 2000's, a lot of those sites made me cringe. But I do miss the internet back then, no social media was the big one, you could order stuff online but the internet hadn't been heavily commercialised. The only thing I do like now is video streaming, the days of blogs and personal websites, dedicated forums (rather than reddit...) was a better one IMO.
@Darkest_matter 3 жыл бұрын
I have a blog
@lepayen 3 жыл бұрын
@@Darkest_matter Gee, only a year before that, almost everyone was using Geocities. Outside of Yahoo, Geocities practically was the internet, everything was on there. Almost every Yahoo search had several geocities pages in the results. Ranging from games to blogs to information sources and even porn, you could find anything on Geocities.
@Darkest_matter 3 жыл бұрын
@@lepayen on tor there's a forum called dread that I used to go on for homework about the effects of drugs and stuff. It was a forum where people discussed various scamming methods and drugs. quite an interesting read.
@christianterrill3503 2 жыл бұрын
The days of AIM and AOL lol
@DE-bs9cf Жыл бұрын
You can potentially still go back to that. Not the whole of society obviously but you could make your own simple webpage by html and just enjoy doing that. I've been thinking to do this very thing. Just teach myself html and make a webpage in the spirit of the 90's. Sharing some of my hobbies. I wouldn't advertise for it on social media either. Just spread the word directly to friends and see where it takes me. It would be a fun experiment to see how that would work our in the current internet era.
@Strange_Armour 3 жыл бұрын
I miss the days when most people would routinely call the internet "The Net." It so desperately needs reviving.
@pombenenge 4 жыл бұрын
9:22 Failed attempt at censoring this guys details
@flolb887 4 жыл бұрын
_All_ attempts of censoring information across the video failed horribly.
@Syklonus 4 жыл бұрын
The guy literally put them on the internet for all to see. I don't think privacy is an issue.
@EssenceofPureFlavor 4 жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say you didn't pronounce geocities correctly.
@RJRC_105 4 жыл бұрын
I wonder what David John Upton is doing now.
@maskettaman1488 4 жыл бұрын
it's not so much to hide it but to cover his ass a bit if necessary.
@joshua-kramer 4 жыл бұрын
Geocities was my first web host! A couple years later, I moved to Angelfire because it had a ready-to-go CGI library. That was important for me, at the time, I think. At least, all my friends were impressed that a visitor could fill out a few fields on a page to submit a commission request, as opposed to opening their email client! Ah, technology.
@vamwolf 4 жыл бұрын
First time in a long time . I heard some one day angelfire
@FlyboyHelosim 4 жыл бұрын
GeoCities, Angelfire, Lycos... ah, those were the days.
@Darkest_matter 3 жыл бұрын
Now EVEN my website has a contact us feature. themusicdrip.co.uk/
@realitypoet 4 жыл бұрын
Watching this was fun for me not only because I learned HTML from building my own GeoCities site back in the 90s, but then I went to work for Yahoo! supporting PageBuilder/SiteBuilder, but then later went to work for your sponsor, Squarespace, so this covers most of my childhood and career lol. Fun times!
@majamystic256 4 жыл бұрын
I loved geocities, It was fun, personalized and interesting I find geocities websites cooler than most websites nowadays most websites nowadays look kinda boring and samey and mostly white and gray they are missing the personality and fun If i ever decide to make a website, i'm gonna make one on that looks like a geocities page and ill put download links to my doom wads on it, ive made a few
@alexanderstevenson6484 4 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the autoplaying MIDIs, animated GIFs, visitor counters and a “guestbook” to sign!
@Chris-ci8vs 3 жыл бұрын
@Gernot Schrader as a button pressing chimp myself, I do quite like Wix/jizz as it has helped open up webdev to us tech plebs and that's created a lot of collective value.
@Chris-ci8vs 3 жыл бұрын
That's awesome, do it :-)
@DiscoTimelordASD 3 жыл бұрын
I just read another comment about Neocities being just like Geocities was. Im rebuilding my old gaming page - same as it was. Have fun :)
@nathanforester5993 4 жыл бұрын
I remember the Michael Jackson ones I was checking out, one of them having a section dedicated to 'the evil/dark side of MJ' specifically it was horror themed Michael Jackson fiction and images, specifically photomanips of him as a vampire. I remember there being vampire ones of him in the Bad and Remember the Time video.
@rastusbojangles 4 жыл бұрын
Chris's midi rendition of a Led Zep classic really brings me back.
@c.james1 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah definitely me too. Before mp3's were around, or even able to be downloaded at all due to glorious 56k slowness, I had quite a huge collection of MIDI files. MIDI files literally amazed the shit out of me when I first discovered them, it was like having free music, except that, it really wasn't haha.
@Ndlanding 4 жыл бұрын
Brought my dinner back.
@nicholascarson2554 4 жыл бұрын
I thought it was music from FF9 lol
@c.james1 4 жыл бұрын
@@nicholascarson2554 !?!? Never heard of Stairway to Heaven?? Haha only joshing with ya, probs one of the best songs ever recorded though!
@filanfyretracker 3 жыл бұрын
Upside too was that midi would not get you in trouble. Today if you are a youtuber and have your window open and someone drives by with a loud radio you could get a copyright strike.
@100Jig 4 жыл бұрын
I miss these days...web space was also often given away with internet access so there were lots of little personal sites around. Many under construction, with hit counters and 'best viewed in IE' banners. All very easy to deride looking back but people had a creative outlet and would have multiple pages based on their interests, these days its hard to stumble on a 'personal' site with everything so polished and corporate now, and top web results nowadays lean away from these type of site, sadly.
@voidofspaceandtime4684 4 жыл бұрын
Web results tend to lean away from these sites because marketers figured out how to game the broken SEO of modern search engines.
@ukeyaoitrash2618 Жыл бұрын
N E O C I T I E S!! :D
@Rejetor 4 жыл бұрын
I wasn't expecting to see my 23 years old website in this video, but boom right in the area51 section is the first one to appear... wow
@RobsonRoverRepair 4 жыл бұрын
Midi files. I dunno how many times they caught me out. Page loads "screaming born to be wild loud midi file" waking whole house at 2am because you forgot to silence the speakers.
@captainchuppachup 4 жыл бұрын
I spent so many hours looking round lovingly made fan sites (and some not so lovingly made) on geocities in the mid-late 90s. Man, happy memories.
@tainteddragon2438 4 жыл бұрын
I remember back when I'm amongst those site creators who made DBZ fan sites. I also remember Funimation nearly shut down all the fan sites especially with geocites because they didn't care people using their property. However what they were managed to do is shut down sites that used custom domains outside of the free web service sites. One of my most used site for DBZ info, PlanetNamek was shutdown by this. -_-
@namor18 4 жыл бұрын
Great video, it sure brings back memories, i made a web page on geocities when i was 13 years old, learned html from it. Good times, my page was on Athens but it was a directory site or a list of useful links too. I even won geocities page of the day back then
@gregledbetter5942 2 жыл бұрын
Rad memory I was about 15 when it hit me, but on the other hand I never won page of the day
@henrymach 4 жыл бұрын
Ok, now I'm curious about the Paul McCartney - Brian Wilson conspiracy
@juomariturmio 4 жыл бұрын
My guess: Paul died in a car crash in about 67 and Brian Wilson was the ghostwriter for many Beatles hits since then.
@The-Cat 4 жыл бұрын
WARNING THIS COMMENT IS VERY DISTURBING, I DO NOT RECOMMENT CHILDREN AND SENSITIVE PEOPLE TO CLICK THE "read more" BUTTON ⚠️ THIS IS NOT A JOKE. .... final warning, the contents of this comment is not for people under the age of 18 or sensitive readers .... .. i have warned you, continue at own risk ... ⚠️ The conspiracy was basically that those two (Paul and Brian) were into scat porn. They recorded eachother deficating into a cup while the other is jerking the shit-pusher off then goes on to eat the shit like its a mcFlurry then vomits into the others mouths and swallows..... and continues to produce another hot cup of scat. 💩 it was basically the original infamous "Two girls one cup" video but the original are Paul and Brian. If you dont know what i'm talking about go search for and WATCH "2 girls 1 cup" video NOT SAFE FOR WORK so view when you're able to be in complete privacy
@darkprinc979 4 жыл бұрын
@@juomariturmio He (Brian Wilson) used to have a radio show in the Toldedo area a number of years back where he would talk about local and national news. I used to listen to his show every day on my way home from work, and was disappointed when they took him off the air.
@The-Cat 4 жыл бұрын
@Jip Jackson Who are you ? ARE YOU FBI ? CIA ? oooooh shit they're on to me !!! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN I'M SORRY I'M SORRY I DID NOT MAN TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH ON KZfaq SORRY SORRY SOOORYYYY !!!!!!
@TheRivieraKid 4 жыл бұрын
I so love these uploads. For the warm glowing, warming glow of nostalgia.
@Ndlanding 4 жыл бұрын
With the emphasis on "ming". (...where women glow and men thunder." :)
@markshanehayden4648 4 жыл бұрын
Chris's homepage! I never thought I'd see that one again anywhere, much less on a KZfaq video from the UK over 20 years later! I had a link to that page on my own geocities page (we are/were both from Calgary), sadly it doesn't seem that my own page has been preserved.
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
Can I have a Midi version of 'Black Hole Sun' playing on my Squarespace site?
@TeppichPilot 4 жыл бұрын
Good job blurring the name at 9:25 :D
@Not-Great-at-Gaming 4 жыл бұрын
"Matt loves pizza" Apparently, he loves coffee too.
@Kattywampus 4 жыл бұрын
That coffee wallpaper was one of the default backgrounds you could pick when you made your Geocities page.
@johnkobilarcik4449 4 жыл бұрын
Matt is an individual who knows what he stands for!
@I_am_Allan 4 жыл бұрын
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@ReplayRetro 4 жыл бұрын
Good lord i miss Geocities, i actually miss a lot about the 90s internet to be honest, its weird how its changed, its undoubtedly more powerful, more useful and more capable than ever but its also lost a lot, when was the last time we just "explored" or "wandered about" in the internet instead of just visiting the same sites over and over.
@Rhewin 3 жыл бұрын
Let’s not forget sites always had Links sections. The rabbit holes you could go down were fantastic. I can remember so many times not saving a site and trying to re-trace my steps to get back to it.
@LiLBitsDK 3 жыл бұрын
@@Rhewin yeah those were great, now noone really links to anything because omg google... but there is still gems out there hidden on page 350 on google searches... so ya never get to see them
@Rhewin 3 жыл бұрын
Jesper Andersen probably because 325/350 of those pages are trash lol
@Nafeels 4 жыл бұрын
7:51 is the Malay word for _"Not finished yet"_ Also, as a kid I love signing guestbooks on some of the GeoCities page lmaoooooo
@CelestialDraconis Жыл бұрын
The Geocities animated gifs will always be the most nostalgic thing for me about the old web. It was so full of personality. Now a days, all you get are stale, white, regurgitated corporate websites with a dozen targeted ads, forced signup pages and subscription offers.
@RetroPC 4 жыл бұрын
I wanna make a GeoCities webpage now. Someone should bring this type of site back!!! How fun it would be today.
@locke103 3 жыл бұрын
well, you still got angelfire.
@user-ck7tg1dq9y 3 жыл бұрын
Neocities, angelfire, some are still kicking around.
@kuropixel6871 4 жыл бұрын
I LOVE this kind of content! Thanks for making it. Would love for you to explore more Geocities/Retro sites in the future.
@wasd____ 3 жыл бұрын
0:52 "Mike's got a Collection of Animated GIFs that must be experienced!" - The essence of 1990s internet, concisely distilled to perfection
@johntowner1893 3 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Glad to see you bringing that old geocities contest to us. Thanks!
@garethfairclough8715 4 жыл бұрын
Geocities...oh lawd. That takes me back.
@brettf3252 4 жыл бұрын
My younger brother was some type of community moderator or something. It was voluntary/unpaid, but when they went public they gave all of these moderators a number of shares. He sold them immediately for $1000.
@klax001 4 жыл бұрын
Omg. The page at 7:33 shows a download for a program called Snadboy's Revelation. I used to use that program! If someone typed in a password on your computer and it got saved it in asterisk form, you could open Revelation and it had a special cursor you could drag over the password field and it would tell you what the password was just from the asterisk characters. I thought I was such a badass hacker when I got AIM passwords from my friends who accidentally saved their passwords on my computer. I must have been around 13 when I did that. Man, I haven't thought about that in years!
@NatsukiMogiIsBestGirl 4 жыл бұрын
In case anyone is wondering, "belum siaplah" means "unfinished" in Malay.
@nubatman 4 жыл бұрын
God. I can still remember my old pages. Made my permanent place in Southbeach/Shores... Then it was no longer.
@JopieHaargel 4 жыл бұрын
'webring'! There's a term I haven't thought about in 22 years...!
@ColinHoad 4 жыл бұрын
Superb. I miss those innocent days of the web, when a simple grasp of HTML made you an Internet god...
@argosharru 4 жыл бұрын
I miss that Internet. The current one is too dystopian
@BlownMacTruck 4 жыл бұрын
This comment makes no sense. It's not like what you can do in geocities back then you CAN'T do today. In fact it's probably the opposite.
@projectmanagement2356 4 жыл бұрын
@@BlownMacTruck CIA plant
@BlownMacTruck 4 жыл бұрын
Project Management CW You do realize it’s much easier to create CIA-proof sites and infrastructure these days, right? Back then crypto was FAR easier to break.
@projectmanagement2356 4 жыл бұрын
@@BlownMacTruck Please explain how we have more privacy today than in the 90's?
@BlownMacTruck 4 жыл бұрын
@@projectmanagement2356 I didn't say that. I said you can now more easily communicate privately with encryption versus back in the 90s.
@ChannelBerpindah 2 жыл бұрын
I missed this a lot, used to have website under geocities around 1999-2005.
@klax001 4 жыл бұрын
I remember alot of people making "choose your own adventure" fanfics of anime and other TV shows by stringing together a bunch of geocities pages and linking them together based on what you decided to do in the story they wrote. It was such a fun and simpler time.
@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын
I never used GeoCities/Yahoo's HTML editors. I was first introduced to HTML editing with _HotDog_ in school, and then I later used _Visual Page_ which came bundled with _Norton SystemWorks._ I like having the option of both the visual editor and the source editor running at the same time, as I sometimes would have to cleanup what the visual editor created.
@Crazytomm 3 жыл бұрын
I used ACE html it was great way to learn fast
@rabbitcarrot651 4 жыл бұрын
Geocities was great for TV show fan sites back in the day. I still speak online to people I met through geocities.
@mooggroog 3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to go check these out!!!
@bluespeck9119 4 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, please, KZfaq person: do tell me about SquareSpace, NordVPN and Raycon for the 37th time today.
@DGTelevsionNetwork 4 жыл бұрын
Can I interest you in some raid shadow legends as well?
@twr412 4 жыл бұрын
You're not surfing the web with a furry undercarriage, are you? Let me tell you about Manscaped...
@jazzygeofferz 4 жыл бұрын
No, I need introducing to fractional shares.
@MG-yc6jr 4 жыл бұрын
You really deserve the name nostalgia nerd, you took me back 20 years during this beautiful video.
@DJ10ROCS 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, keep em coming!
@the_holy_forestfairy 4 жыл бұрын
Funfact: The website for the film "SpaceJam" is still available / accessible and unchanged since 1996 !!
@BBC600 4 жыл бұрын
Not exactly, the changed the security protocall to be '' so it no longer works on appropriate hardware. Maybe RetroZilla could work it?
@ChanningKing 4 жыл бұрын
I’m worried that they’re going to replace it as the marketing for the sequel starts to crank up.
@WhatALoadOfTosca 4 жыл бұрын
Love the blurred personal details at 9:23... Whoopsie ;) ... Love the video. Thanks again. Hope you're well.
@inqurity 2 жыл бұрын
Have you heard of Cameron's world? Its a collection of Geocities cities, a love letter to the internet of the old and everyone's "personal universes". The internet we lost
@segatendo4705 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this!
@IAmMarwood 4 жыл бұрын
I found this archive myself recently and found my old film fansite, such a nostalgia trip! My site was awful but got me a "consulting" job with Film 4 on a documentary they were making because as bad and unfinished as my site was that's all there was back then!
@otakuribo 4 жыл бұрын
That MIDI rendition of "Stairway to Heaven" is what depression sounds like. But classic HTML, that's pure soul food.
@spartonberry 4 жыл бұрын
Geocities was running at least a decade later in Japan because somehow Yahoo! ended up a dominant provider of Internet services. (as in Yahoo! Auctions is still running, as I hear even, the most popular service there. Despite the US service closing in 2002.)
@retrocomputinggrotto 4 жыл бұрын
LOL - I remember all the MIDI files and animated GIFs we all used to put on our websites - the more you could put on to slow your website the better (or so it seemed)! It was new so we wanted lots of them. Nice to see a lot of the sites were archived so people can see how far things have progressed.
@orlandokaraoke3002 3 жыл бұрын
I used to have geocities/collegepark/gym/3374, it was my personal bio and information page about mopeds. It definitely impressed the head IT guy at the manufacturing plant I was working in at the time. I used office 97 to make what was parked there. With animated gifs and mopeds popping wheelies.. I used a 'back in time' site recently to take a look into the past, grab some screen shots and bask in memories. Nothing like seeing yourself many years earlier in a picture probably displaying a moped. Cheers!
@athosworld 2 жыл бұрын
I actually still have a website that is 2000’s looking and not as bad as Geocities ones. I use PHP for server stuff. I update it whenever I can and it’s really fun.
@allergic2life 4 жыл бұрын
Ahh memories! Thanks for this video!
@AhmedAlian 2 жыл бұрын
Total amusement. Thx
@BRUXXUS 4 жыл бұрын
Has anyone noticed that Twitch streams have adopted a **very** Geocities like aesthetic? Like, lots of bright colors, low res images, looping animations, sound effects, etc. I often get the Geocities vibe when seeing a lot of Twitch streams.
@bonkmaykr 4 жыл бұрын
My power went out as I'm watching this. Thanks for the entertainment
@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember this. I attempted to delete my GeoCities web page before it was archived, but due to a recent (at the time) change of physical address, I was temporarily without internet access. Thus, I could save elements of my GeoCities to floppy disk as I deleted it at my local library, but user access was time limited, and computer file access was much slower then compared to today. In short, my GeoCities page got archived in a half-deleted state, and I would be much happier if I could entirely wipe it from the archive, being as it contains information irrelevant to today. If anyone knows how I can do that, please leave a reply to this comment; much appreciated.
@Rhewin 3 жыл бұрын
If you can prove ownership you can request archives to remove them since it’s your content. Shame, though.
@Christopher-N 3 жыл бұрын
@@Rhewin: Thank you for the suggestion. I did find the front page, which says my site is no longer used, directing viewers to another site, which is also no longer used. I was unable to determine if I had any other remaining content. EDIT: Contacted. I explained to them the circumstances, told them which application wrote the code, where to find that information in the HTML, and attached a sub page as example. It'll probably be a while before I hear back.
@LiLBitsDK 3 жыл бұрын
anything you put on the internet is ever truly gone, never put it up unless you really mean to
@Christopher-N 3 жыл бұрын
@@LiLBitsDK: The website was live in the 90s, before web archiving as we know it today, and dissolved in the mid-2000s, when web archiving was still relatively new. Thus, it was possible (but not guaranteed) to remove something and not have it reappear later.
@shannoncrescent4422 3 жыл бұрын
I remember the Geocities site I started to make when I was like 12 or 13. It was dedicated to review french fries at local restaurants.Not the rest of the food. Just the fries. :p I had my priorities
@mrlockermanmy 4 жыл бұрын
At 7:50 , the words means "Not completed yet!" for those who are curious
@wilhelmbittrich88 Жыл бұрын
This video really took me back, this for me, is how I remember the internet from a young age. My aunt showed me GeoCities back when I was about 10 or 11, and really interested in EVERYTHING computers. I would have made a few of these GeoCities sites, and they would have looked just as bad, if not worse, than most of the ones here. I wonder if they're archived? Not that I'd know how to find them again, or what the pages would even be about.
@munnsie100 4 жыл бұрын
It's so interesting to be able to go back in time and see these sites. I searched on the geocities.ws site and actually found pictures of my suburb! It's like stepping back in time...
@MarkJones-xb8vy 4 жыл бұрын
There's also the Geocities Archive Project here @ www.geocitiesarchive.org
@MaskedGEEK 4 жыл бұрын
I remember Geocities very well. I set up my page to allow the downloading of movie soundtracks. Of course back than I was a fresh-out-of-school-know-it-all-know-nothing young adult in college. So things like copyright and DMCA wasn't known to me. I can't remember how much server space each user got, but I do remember I could only upload 4 MP3's at anyone time so I set up an email address so visitors could contact me for requests (I didn't get any), and of course the obligatory page counter at the bottom.
@RetroSegaDev 4 жыл бұрын
You gave me a great idea to go back, check my geocities and finally translate all the Chinese comments that I'd received back in 98 that I had no method of doing! :D
@canuck21 3 жыл бұрын
I had a few GeoCities pages. Good times.
@Fazeof1p 4 жыл бұрын
I remember making mods for GTA1 back in the day. Half those sites for GTA mods were Geocities sites that lasted for like a week. I doubt Squarespace will ever have the charm and simplicity that Geocities/Tripod once had
@Maschinestorm 4 жыл бұрын
Faze of 1337planet Games like GTA and Carmageddon made late 90's pc gaming kick ass.
@idimidodjimi6760 4 жыл бұрын
I love how you epicly failed at blurring sensitive information, not that it maters, cause he made it public him self.
@nelsoncabrera6464 3 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for the Geocities equivalent of future VR spaces.
@gregledbetter5942 2 жыл бұрын
Funny the other week I was trying to explain this to someone and it was pretty difficult but Nostalgia nerd summed it up pretty good
@drunkrdm 4 жыл бұрын
i remember some of the geocities websites could have shopping carts.. STILL WAITING "EPIC"
@DavidWonn 4 жыл бұрын
I still remember where my site started, at /TimesSquare/Maze/7751 in the late 90s before relocating to other domains several times. I miss having the original site at least as a redirector, though thankfully archive.org still works at least partially.
@Firem1nded 3 жыл бұрын
"HEY, HAVE YOU HEARED ABOUT SQUARESPACE?!" and right after the second Squarespace ad the midroll ad starts.
@WhatALoadOfTosca 4 жыл бұрын
What ever happened to visitor counter or guestbook?? I'd love to know where they went. Totally forgot about them!
@tainteddragon2438 4 жыл бұрын
It was fun to see the visitor location percentages/stats across the world. Guestbooks were actually nice back then since online trolling was less common as it is today.
@thomasgrisfett 4 жыл бұрын
An odd thing to say considering both are present on this very page.
@Manbarrican 4 жыл бұрын
There are still a few sites that provide those services, they're not hard to find.
@robottobor7276 4 жыл бұрын
@@tainteddragon2438 online trolling was very much alive back then. It was the reason why it was general knowledge to not reveal personal information online back then
@meetoo594 4 жыл бұрын
@@tainteddragon2438 being able to communicate with a sites admin just by typing in a form and hitting enter without making an account, verifying email and all that bollocks was great. Pity trolls, script kiddies and marketing wankers ruined it for everyone.
@kassemir 4 жыл бұрын
We need more websites with Homer Simpson just screaming upon entering the site :)
@Ndlanding 4 жыл бұрын
Seems like yesterday. Having said that, I never used Geocities for my fabby website, preferring to code and shrink everything to fit on the webspace my ISP provided. I think it was 1 or 2 MB, but I had digitized song clips looping over big images over *many* pages! Thanks for this show, Mr Nerd.
@nozyspy4967 3 жыл бұрын
'The conspiracy theories that gain the most traction aren't necessarily the ones that need pursuing the most'. Truer words have never been spoken.
@CamdenBloke 3 жыл бұрын
I remember going to geo cities sites and getting the idea that the URL was supposed to indicate something about the subject or content, but I never navigated by neighbourhood.
@HR-wd6cw 3 жыл бұрын
I just remember using this about 20 years ago and the paths (website URL) they gave you was son long. Usually your site was about 3-4 directories levels deep so sharing it verbally became a chore. Not to mention I believe when I started, you had to use their page builder as it wouldn't let you upload your own HTML files, or if you could, it wouldn't allow anything except the most basic HTML tags such as paragraphs, tables, and some formatting, but wouldn't let you do more advanced scripting. Obviously it evolved over time and probably allowed for these features, but when I used it it was more like a more advanced MySpace page...
@tacaloking4 2 жыл бұрын
man these sites give me flashbacks to all those weird myspace pages that were just covered in loads of stuff
@davidfrischknecht8261 4 жыл бұрын
Boy does this take me back...
@TikiShootah 4 жыл бұрын
Ok This one time, the Squarespace ad was beautiful in its timing lol. Let's not forget anglefire website services, seen them and geocities so much in the 90s.
@Johnnyafc 4 жыл бұрын
Great video thanks , Loved the test stream last night mardy 🤣
@walterbison 2 жыл бұрын
I spent countless hours between 1997 and 2002 on my GeoCities websites. I LOVED it.
@RubenvanKuik 4 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I came across a dead link to one just the other day when I was looking for SimCity 3000 custom content. Love me a bit of internet archaeology.
@luciandragos8556 4 жыл бұрын
I wounder if you can find the other end of that link on the Archive? lol
@RubenvanKuik 4 жыл бұрын
@@luciandragos8556 That's what I was thinking. Don't think I can find it again though. I'm still looking for cc, so I'm bound to run into another one :)
@Psycandy 4 жыл бұрын
with every site i make, i put a 'report dead links' button that's a dead link
@voidofspaceandtime4684 4 жыл бұрын
@@RubenvanKuik Have you tried the internet archive?
@BK_gamer_ 3 жыл бұрын
I started my GeoCities page in 1997 and maintained it until 2006. In the late '90s I used NetZero to connect to the internet and posted to USENET newsgroups. I miss the simplicity of those early days, though I don't miss the slow dial-up speeds.
@FlyboyHelosim 4 жыл бұрын
GeoCities was like the original Dark Web. My first websites were hosted on GeoCities, found memories of using the webpage-based uploader where you had to select files individually for upload, before I got into FTP of course. These simple websites were packed with information, only images where necessary, and worked correctly in any browser. A far cry from today's bloated clickbait messes that require a fibre-optic connection and modern PC just to run.
@leehawkins616 4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! This is what historians of the future will be looking back upon. It was a very important time. Thanks for the vid ;-)
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