Not that this is news to anyone...

[helen99]

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.

Comments

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Only it's not really my birthday. See, what happened was, my mom, dad and brother in law all died within days of my real birthday (not all the same year, but very close to the date). The idea of celebrating anything that day (which is the day before tax day) was kind of a lost cause. Then last year I got married on Halloween and changed my name, so technically the person called by my current name was "born" that day. I dunno. I feel kind of bad having people wish me a happy birthday when really it isn't. It's a pretty cool day though, and I kind of really have disowned my real one.

[shadomere.livejournal.com]

I can say that makes total sense to me. So we say "Birthday" and you hear/read "Specialday". It's still very special, still counts in my book! :)

Happy Anniversary then too!

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was fun (we bought ourselves a chain saw...)