Not that this is news to anyone...
A couple of old Geocities sites that I'm linked to were timing out when I tried to access them just now (trying to update links on the website).
I looked up Geocities to see what was up, and found this. The end of the article says, "On 1st October 2008 Geocities removed old sites from their servers thereby losing countless website builders all of their sites."
I guess that might explain it, but the pages just timed out - I didn't get a "not found," so I assume the pages are still there (maybe). I do know Yahoo!Geocities severely limited the bandwidth for free sites in recent years, so that could also be it... or my ad-blocking options prevent the pages from loading... or the server itself is overloaded.
In any case, I think they outlived their usefulness as a reliable web host many years ago, so if you have old material that you care about stored on Geocities, you may want to back it up.
I looked up Geocities to see what was up, and found this. The end of the article says, "On 1st October 2008 Geocities removed old sites from their servers thereby losing countless website builders all of their sites."
I guess that might explain it, but the pages just timed out - I didn't get a "not found," so I assume the pages are still there (maybe). I do know Yahoo!Geocities severely limited the bandwidth for free sites in recent years, so that could also be it... or my ad-blocking options prevent the pages from loading... or the server itself is overloaded.
In any case, I think they outlived their usefulness as a reliable web host many years ago, so if you have old material that you care about stored on Geocities, you may want to back it up.
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Angelfire
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Geocities has purged old sites without notice, but that seems to be unrelated to my inability to access them at the moment.
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http://www.110mb.com/
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110MB ftw
When I went to look at it yesterday, I recognized the site and remembered the account information. This time, I figured out that they actually do allow FTP access at no additional charge, so I uploaded the site (not rialian.com - another site). The site is fairly extensive (over 500 files) but the site seemed to have no problem uploading them all with the exception of one movie.
They don't allow anything over 8 MB and unless I'm mistaken, they don't want people to store video on 110MB. This is fine with me since only have that one movie, and I can link to it from elsewhere. There were very few glitches if any. It's sometimes a little slow, but nothing serious - most of the time the pages load pretty fast.
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It started around 1997 I think, which was 11 years ago -- so if you're around 22 or 23 now, that would put you at about 11 in 1997, (which is a young and curious yet oddly intellectual age when websites on Geocities may be appealing). Of course "kid" could be defined as anything from 6 - 16, so there's a range...
Happy B-day...
Hope you have a good one.
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Happy Anniversary then too!
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