Links tagged with “geocities”
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GeoCities Oral History #3. Jennifer Pursley | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
I love these. This interview is with the “ringmaster” of the Anti-Titanic Webring.
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The oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world’s first memes | CBC Arts
I was looking up Hampsterdance two days ago but didn’t see this article. A bit bonkers. And nice GIF illustrations. (via b3ta newsletter)
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Geo for Bootstrap, a Timeless Theme by Divshot
A GeoCities-style Bootstrap theme. File under ideas I wish I’d had. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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GeoCities Oral History. Interview #2 | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
A nice interview with someone about the site they made on GeoCities in the 1990s.
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“is death for WEB sites as us” | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
“it just kills me that they took a wonderful, friendly community like Geocities and just smashed it to bits. Yahoo, you STINK!”
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Is 1024×768 showing more or less than 800×600? | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
“800×600 is like a beauty filter for web pages of all ages. Looking at the web through it you get sentimental. … On a bigger screenshot you see how the amateur web was shrinking and shriveling…”
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The Deleted City 3.0
Zoomable map of the GeoCities filesystem. (via FlowingData)
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Cameron’s World
It appears that I haven’t bookmarked this before, which is an oversight.
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Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied | Artist Talks at The Photographers’ Gallery | The Photographers’ Gallery
Geocities, 90s web culture, etc. Could be good, see you there.
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Geocities as Style and Marketing Gimmick @divshot | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
I’ve had “Geocities WordPress theme” as a “someday” project for ages. Maybe I should cross it off now. Geocities styles for Twitter Bootstrap and Tumblr.
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Authenticity/Access | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
On how historical web pages (such as Geocities) appear differently now, even if you have all the original assets. eg, browser rendering, text anti-aliasing, MIDI audio, screen resolutions, etc.
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Geocities-izer - Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996
“Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996”
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Holy Joan! | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
A handful of GeoCities pages still exist at GeoCities.com… and the possibility that maybe this means all the rest exist, and are just blocked, rather than deleted.
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The First Year of Frames
I completely forgot sites used to offer the choice of “Frames or No Frames”.
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Copyright (One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)
top geocities copyright graphics gif archives archiving
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One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
A blog outlining some peoples’ explorations of the torrent of all the archived GeoCities data. Some lovely old bits of early web archaeology in there.
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ASCII by Jason Scott / Archiveteam! The Geocities Torrent
There will be a 900GB torrent of all of the Geocities content that Archiveteam managed to save before the idiots at Yahoo turned it off. Wonderful. Wonderful. Could archive.org host it…? (via @antimega)
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Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities…
Wonderful - one guy raced to copy all of GeoCities. Worth reading ‘Making of’. He should win medals, awards, certificates, etc. (via Kottke)
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“Petty” » Rescued Geocities ‘Fry and Laurie’ Scripts
It’s not only nice that he’s rescued another GeoCities site, but that it’s one I remember visiting a lot back in the day and had completely forgotten.
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DreamHost Blog » They’re Internet History
More stuff about the history of GeoCities and WebRing. (via Waxy)
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ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Lessons So Far
Not just for the good stuff about archiving Geocities, but also about the history of the site and its structure. (via Waxy)