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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/10/09

In reply to Google Serves Up Free Wi-Fi at 47 Airports for the Holidays
Nice... I'll be at both the Seattle and Des Moines airports in the next few weeks. Too bad no Minneapolis tho... #googlefreewifiairportlist
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Benguin
10/26/09

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I tried to explain to a friend of mine (who is not so tech or internet savvy) why this event was noteworthy. She didn't get it.

Oh well. I guess the "normies" will just never understand the way of us geeks. #geocities
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MePerson
10/26/09

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Unfortunately, there's a lot of educational content on there used by teachers. Now that's gone, and it's going to really confuse a lot of elementary/middle school students. #geocities
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Masakari
10/26/09

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If anyone wants to remember classic memories of Geocities, be sure to check out xkcd.com today - they reskinned their site to look like a typical Geocities site you'd encounter. #geocities
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
10/26/09

@Masakari: It's official - xkcd is the best.
Not that I ever doubted, of course. #geocities
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Margatron
10/26/09

@Masakari: It's so gloriously full of all the design flaws of Geocities... (single tear).

Love the black text on the black background, and the notice at the bottom saying "Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.7 or better at 800x480" #geocities
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nutbastard
10/26/09

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i dont get why they took it down... it couldn't have been takin g up more than a couple TB. #geocities
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mischlep
10/26/09

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Webcomic xkcd has a special tribute to Geocities today. [xkcd.com] #geocities
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Yerzriknot
10/26/09

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Good riddance. If only we could get rid of myspace next. #geocities
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Aetius
10/26/09

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Oh darn, I'm gonna miss my webpage to Italy on Geocities. Sure, I havn't visited or updated it since 2002 but where will people now get their fix of pictures of Italy? #geocities
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Zerod Zunaro
10/26/09

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This is coming from a web integrator. GOOD RIDDANCE.

Why? This is quite possibly the best leap forward we can have for standardization of code since now people will be forced to learn xHTML. Is it complicated? NO! And this plagueland of table and HTML 2.0 is thanfully disappearing.

Now if Microsoft could just pull the damn plug on IE6. #geocities
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jlawson
10/26/09

@Zerod Zunaro: This is coming from a professional user interface engineer. People still aren't forced to learn xhtml (not xHTML), the type of people who used GeoCities wouldn't care anyway, and this is far from the "best leap forward", because nobody cared about GeoCities anyway. And anyway, moving forward, HTML 5 doesn't follow xhtml standards... whether or not it should (it should).

No, the "best leap forward" would be for the companies holding themselves back because of worry of breaking their intranets to realize that IE8 has a compatibility mode. That, or actually put time into their infrastructure. #geocities
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Zerod Zunaro
10/26/09

@jlawson: As for best leap forward, companies wouldn't jump since most big companies at the time of Win XP had to build an infrastructure that worked quickly, efficiently. Thinking that nothing would come to upgrading this. So basicly, a total non-forsight issue.

It's a bit more complicated for companies to upgrade their stuff since they have to do a large business case to know the different problems related to upgrading:

A) Will the computer support it
B) Will the intranet support it
C) What are the cost of doing such an upgrade (Man hours)

Once the business case is done, they ask the budget to do it. Annnnnnnnd usually the snag is there. The people holding the money usually know nothing about the internet and know all about RIO (Return on investment) and the people in IT knows little about RIO and a lot about the internet.

Here you are pleading security issues, problems related to many many mis-uses of the software. But the money holding only see one thing and one thing only, the cost and how much it will bring more money to them. AKA, most of the time, they'll say no since that very money that could help the company to run faster will be invested in PR/Marketting/Shenanigans that give 'em immediate results.

So here we are, 10 years after the birth of the bloatware known as IE6 still quite thriving in enterprises. Reason being? Microsoft will still support XP users (and Internet Explorer 6 users) until 2014. While the world try to advance, the situation mentioned earlier will only bring one thing upon us. The stop in tech investment.

My only hope here, is that at some point, big companies will do it right soon so we don't have to be suspended into a infinite hiatus of pure IE6-ery. #geocities
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OMG! Ponies!
10/26/09

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If only there was someplace else filled with poorly coded personal webpages. Oh wait -

It's called MySpace. #geocities
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bonedog73
10/26/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Just what I was thinking, Geocities was the MySpace of 10 years ago. MySpace I guess was the next logical step, now we have Facebook.....what will be next!? #geocities
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met2art
10/26/09

@bonedog73: You can Google MyFaceTubeSpace... #geocities
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KronikFpLiOnYkD
10/26/09

@met2art: Quick, someone go grab that url #geocities
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Navin R Johnson
10/26/09

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I just hope they leave tripod alone. I've already mirrored my sites there, but I hate to see web 1.0 fading into oblivion. #geocities
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OMG! Ponies!
10/26/09

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In lieu of flowers, please install the Netscape Communicator 4.5 skin for Firefox and open a tab to the Hamsterdance. #geocities
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FriarNurgle
10/26/09

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Let's have a moment of silence for all the dead gifs. #geocities
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Barry99705
10/26/09

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Wasn't someone at Defcon going to mirror all of geocities on some big ass server they had there? I can't find anything on the site and my notes are at home. #geocities
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ArmTheHarmless
10/26/09

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XKCD's page is decked out like an old school GeoCities page to pay homage today. It's perfect, complete with HTML source code errors and classic animated .gifs. (XKCD)
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OCEntertainment
10/26/09

@bradjfitz: Yeah, was wondering about that. Well, good to know Randall didn't just get drunk and decide to redesign his website.

Guys, seriously. Don't drink and code. #geocities
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