RIP Geocities

Looking back on Geocities success way back when makes you realize how temporal the Internet is. I can think of a number of other sites that have come and gone but this one is pretty sad even though I was never a fan of all the flashing and spinning gizmos people had on those sites. It was the cat’s meow in the late 1990’s and in many ways the fore-runner of sites like myspace. It is an end of an era and sad in many ways. At some point this will probably happen to MySpace and Facebook too. People will move on and people that remember the hay day of these services with a little bit of sadness of a time not so long ago.

I must say even though it probably won’t be around much longer, the xkcd comic commemorative theme today was pure genius and even brought back more memories.