Tuesday 28 April 2009

Ugly and neglected fragments

The joke going round about Yahoo! closing GeoCities is that the headlines should have been “GeoCities still exists!” It’s so much a part of the pre-Web 2.0 world — a world before weblogs and MySpace and Facebook — that before the announcement of its closure I couldn’t have been sure whether it was still online. Given the thousands or millions of sites hosted at GeoCities it’s remarkable how rarely one stumbles across any of them. Only with their impending disappearance do we realise what we’ll be missing.

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28 Apr 2009 at Twitter

  • 08:22am: Contemplating making copies of all the geocities.com sites linked to from pepysdiary.com. Thanks Yahoo.
  • 10:06am: Putting Operation Spring Clean into much-needed action.
  • 11:55am: @ianbetteridge I can't think of a single reason why @wpponline should follow anyone when, like many people, that feed's just announcements.
  • 01:18pm: @ianbetteridge If @wpponline want to use it as RSS, why not? You don't have to read it. They're being open about how they intend to use it.
  • 02:08pm: Downloading a wwweb of background images, animated gifs, centered text, guestbooks. Looking forward to when retro web design is fashionable.

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Music listened to most that week

  1. Camera Obscura (77)
  2. Belle and Sebastian (16)
  3. Sun Kil Moon (11)
  4. The Fall (6)
  5. Morrissey (5)
  6. The O'Jays (4)
  7. Pixies (4)
  8. O.V. Wright (4)
  9. The House of Love (3)
  10. The Field Mice (3)

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