The death of Geocities
You can read the full article here – but to summarize, Geocities, the free web hosting service from 19-fucking-95, is pretty much dead and buried.
This is one of the saddest events for internet related matters. Seriously. If you were on the web from 1995-2000, there’s a strong chance you had a webpage at Geocities.
The very first website I ever created was at Geocities. I can’t remember the exact URL, but I never even knew HTML and used Geocities Website Builder software to create it. If it wasn’t for that, I probably would have never got into the business I am today.
I still remember my first homepage. BluenoseGjMcGs Website was the name of it. It was more just a personal page where I put on some pictures, funny soccer quotes, jokes etc. I also ran a brief TNM e-fed and posted stuff on there too.
Then when I created my first wrestling website, the Pro Wrestling World, I had it on Geocities. Amazingly, I still remember the URL – it was /https://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/9333
Unfortunately the site is long gone, and the earliest web archive is just a forwarder to our new site.
I remember having about 300 different Geocities accounts, as we had lots of files to host but Geocities had a size limit for your account(no bandwidth limits at that time). Just thinking about all this brings back memories. The biggest thing at that time I remember was EVERYONE had Geocities accounts, and then they all left to go to uh…Simplenet.com I think it was. Like people had URLs like WrestlingGod.Simplenet.com and so on. Then one day due to bandwidth, simplenet just booted every fucking wrestling site off them, which was epic lolz.
Anyway, very sad to see Geocities gone, as it kicked the ass of all it’s competitors, like Angelfire and Fortunecity. Unfortunately they never could figure out how to really profit from the site, especially in this web 2.0 world. It seems silly – but to me, it’s like an NFL Player seeing the kids team he played for at 4 years old shutting down – they got me the start in this business, and who knows if I’d still be in the position today without it.
To Geocities: Thanks. I owe my livelihood to you, as do many others I am sure.
Update from Twitter
Saw “Knowing” last night. Now going to spend the rest of my life pretending it never existed.
Cancelling my Blockbuster Unlimited Game Rental Thingy
Well at the end of this month, I’m going to cancel my Blockbuster Unlimited Game Rental deal that I had going since the beginning of February. It’s actually a great idea, but the problem is that you feel obligated to play the rental game. My game collection is huge and I haven’t been playing a lot of games that I should be, so I’m going to cancel it till like June or July and then get it back.
I’d always planned this to end around this time, for the release of the new Fallout 3 DLC. Just a shame I wasn’t able to rent some games I really wanted, like RE 5, or Lost for Janise, or WWE Legends, or a ton of others. Oh well.
So taking a look at my games, other than Fallout I have to play:
- Rainbow Six Vegas 1. Story mode and T-Hunt on Realistic.
- Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Story mode on Realistic.
- Bioshock. Hardest difficulty.
- Left 4 Dead. Only played 2 story modes. Also gotta play it online.
- Burnout Revenge & Paradise. Just need to play these more.
- Dark Sector. Hardest difficulty.
- Civilization. It’s just been sitting there for a LONG time gathering dust.
- RE4 for the Gamecube. Yep. Still not played.
- Mass Effect. Barely scratched surface with it.
- Gears of War 1. Gotta go through co-op with Risto.
- Gears of War 2. Gotta go through on Insane.
- Fifa 09. Just haven’t played thus much at all since purchasing.
- Halo Wars. Same as above. Rented it. Played 1 skirmish. Loved it. Ordered it online. Arrived last week. Haven’t played it yet.
- Saints Row 2. When the new DLC comes out, going through it again on competitive co-op.
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance. A lot to do in that, gotta go through it on hardest difficulty too I think with Risto.
- Skate. Played for an hour.
- Rock Band 2. Need to just play this more. Hopefully get an NPP jam session soon.
- Lego Star Wars. The fact I don’t have 1000/1000 in that is bugging the hell out of me. I intend on playing this, Batman & Indiana and getting those. I’m starting to care about achievements again.
- Call of Duty 2 & 4. Call me a sadist, but I want to go through both of these(and probs COD 3) on veteran. I got big balls.
So yeah – whew. Lot of games to play. I want to clear out my shelf of games I’m not interested in and just keep ones that I will – you know – actually fucking play. Add in all the work I have for myself and yeah – gonna be busy times ahead.
Update from Twitter
Just finished Lee Childs Killing Floor for about the 8th time. Reacher kick is still on, Die Trying next.
Update from Twitter
4-0 to start off the NBA Playoffs. Todays tips now up at https://www.NBATips.net