a little “vintage” www
The internet is like parenting…
As soon as you’re used to everything and have established a routine, as soon as you’re starting to have an inkling of that “hey, I might just be getting the hang of this” feeling, everything changes again. 
So my hubby was reading last night about the fact that Geocities is dead. Anyone remember Geocities? I sure do. It was there that I built my very first HTML homepage, with some ridiculously long URL based on their “neighbourhood” concept. YM also spent it’s first 3 years hosted on Geocities before I bought the site it’s own domain name.
Just for kicks, here is the old YM site on Geocities (last updated 2003-ish). Check it out while you still can, because it will all be put to rest this summer, I hear.
Join me for a walk down memory lane of the internet in the late 90s, early millennium…
Remember webrings? I loved those. Each one meant I could design a whole new theme around a single idea or image…
Remember Smartgroups? They are already long gone. I wonder if YahooGroups is going to follow suit… it just hasn’t been the same since stupid Yahoo took it over from EGroups.
Here are some of YM’s older logos and headers:
And here is a reeeeeeally old one that I don’t think ever made it off the art board:
Remember like, awards and stuff? And you would make your own and link to people and they would link back to you?
And remember guestbooks? I suspect those are on the endangered list as well.
Now so much of all of this has just been invaded by spam and ruined by all the shouting people scrambling over each other in desperation to be heard. How do you even survive out there anymore?
Will things ever slow down? Or do you think the world wide web will keep changing as much as it already has been?
April 24 2009 07:41 pm | EZ-blog Oven
