Comments on: Goodbye, Geocities http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/ The Personal Blog of @GeorgeGSmithJr Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:05:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Guest http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-2127 Guest Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:46:36 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-2127 I created a high school computer science "magnet" program (1984 in Sacramento, California) where kids ended up with two college computer courses under their belt. I had them building and fixing computers, programming, studying the history and development of computers, using WP, SS, DB, all in DOS of course, eventually migrating to Windows where they later learned Office 97. I was so pumped when I discovered Geocities! I immediately showed my students how simple it was to use. They were also excited. I started requiring all my kids (high school - grades 9 thru 12) to develop a geocities web site of their own in addition to their html site. I was surprised to find that a small number of them already had sites. What I saw with geocities was a gigantic leap in making web site development tools available to anyone in a simple, intuitive way, even if they had no programming experience! What a great teaching tool! I created a high school computer science “magnet” program (1984 in Sacramento, California) where kids ended up with two college computer courses under their belt. I had them building and fixing computers, programming, studying the history and development of computers, using WP, SS, DB, all in DOS of course, eventually migrating to Windows where they later learned Office 97. I was so pumped when I discovered Geocities! I immediately showed my students how simple it was to use. They were also excited. I started requiring all my kids (high school – grades 9 thru 12) to develop a geocities web site of their own in addition to their html site. I was surprised to find that a small number of them already had sites. What I saw with geocities was a gigantic leap in making web site development tools available to anyone in a simple, intuitive way, even if they had no programming experience! What a great teaching tool!

]]> By: George G Smith Jr http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1897 George G Smith Jr Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:40:34 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1897 It's funny the people you still remain in contact with from the early days of the internet. Heck - you and I harken back to the Livejournal days. I still talk to some people from random crazy happenstance meetings on the web. We were all newbs back then but now look at us...lol It's funny the people you still remain in contact with from the early days of the internet. Heck – you and I harken back to the Livejournal days. I still talk to some people from random crazy happenstance meetings on the web. We were all newbs back then but now look at us…lol

]]> By: Grace http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1896 Grace Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:34:23 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1896 Ah yes. One of my first websites when I was in middle school (maybe early years of high school?) was on Geocities. (I can't remember if I had one on Angelfire first.) It was on the "Rainforest" neighborhood, because I fancied myself an environmentalist hippie sort of girl. <br><br>And then I took the whole webdesign thing even further... there was this oddly cliquish group of webdesign girls that would buy domains and would "host" other girls that had pretty websites. What an odd phenomenon that was. I'm still net-friends with some of the girls I've come across during this point in my life. Ah yes. One of my first websites when I was in middle school (maybe early years of high school?) was on Geocities. (I can't remember if I had one on Angelfire first.) It was on the “Rainforest” neighborhood, because I fancied myself an environmentalist hippie sort of girl.

And then I took the whole webdesign thing even further… there was this oddly cliquish group of webdesign girls that would buy domains and would “host” other girls that had pretty websites. What an odd phenomenon that was. I'm still net-friends with some of the girls I've come across during this point in my life.

]]> By: carissah http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1895 carissah Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:06:07 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1895 Oh I had so forgotten about IRC, ICQ, yahoo chat and so many other things that I almost never use now! I met two of the guys I dated before my husband on IRC and went to Canada to meet friends I had on ICQ...why does that seem like forever ago. Talk about going back in time! That was back when I had an Apple computer! Oh I had so forgotten about IRC, ICQ, yahoo chat and so many other things that I almost never use now! I met two of the guys I dated before my husband on IRC and went to Canada to meet friends I had on ICQ…why does that seem like forever ago. Talk about going back in time! That was back when I had an Apple computer!

]]> By: jakrose http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1894 jakrose Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:52:30 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1894 classic. pouring out a shot of whiskey for Geocities. Goodbye old friend. <br><br>I was a Goecities community manager. Memories ripe with ICQ conversations, Usenet chats, and nasty nested table layouts stolen from Yahoo. classic. pouring out a shot of whiskey for Geocities. Goodbye old friend.

I was a Goecities community manager. Memories ripe with ICQ conversations, Usenet chats, and nasty nested table layouts stolen from Yahoo.

]]> By: George G Smith Jr http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1719 George G Smith Jr Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:34 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1719 It's funny the people you still remain in contact with from the early days of the internet. Heck - you and I harken back to the Livejournal days. I still talk to some people from random crazy happenstance meetings on the web. We were all newbs back then but now look at us...lol It's funny the people you still remain in contact with from the early days of the internet. Heck – you and I harken back to the Livejournal days. I still talk to some people from random crazy happenstance meetings on the web. We were all newbs back then but now look at us…lol

]]> By: Grace http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1718 Grace Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:34:23 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1718 Ah yes. One of my first websites when I was in middle school (maybe early years of high school?) was on Geocities. (I can't remember if I had one on Angelfire first.) It was on the "Rainforest" neighborhood, because I fancied myself an environmentalist hippie sort of girl. <br><br>And then I took the whole webdesign thing even further... there was this oddly cliquish group of webdesign girls that would buy domains and would "host" other girls that had pretty websites. What an odd phenomenon that was. I'm still net-friends with some of the girls I've come across during this point in my life. Ah yes. One of my first websites when I was in middle school (maybe early years of high school?) was on Geocities. (I can't remember if I had one on Angelfire first.) It was on the “Rainforest” neighborhood, because I fancied myself an environmentalist hippie sort of girl.

And then I took the whole webdesign thing even further… there was this oddly cliquish group of webdesign girls that would buy domains and would “host” other girls that had pretty websites. What an odd phenomenon that was. I'm still net-friends with some of the girls I've come across during this point in my life.

]]> By: carissah http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1717 carissah Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:06:07 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1717 Oh I had so forgotten about IRC, ICQ, yahoo chat and so many other things that I almost never use now! I met two of the guys I dated before my husband on IRC and went to Canada to meet friends I had on ICQ...why does that seem like forever ago. Talk about going back in time! That was back when I had an Apple computer! Oh I had so forgotten about IRC, ICQ, yahoo chat and so many other things that I almost never use now! I met two of the guys I dated before my husband on IRC and went to Canada to meet friends I had on ICQ…why does that seem like forever ago. Talk about going back in time! That was back when I had an Apple computer!

]]> By: jakrose http://nosenseoftime.org/2009/10/goodbye-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-1716 jakrose Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:52:30 +0000 http://nosenseoftime.org/?p=1295#comment-1716 classic. pouring out a shot of whiskey for Geocities. Goodbye old friend. <br><br>I was a Goecities community manager. Memories ripe with ICQ conversations, Usenet chats, and nasty nested table layouts stolen from Yahoo. classic. pouring out a shot of whiskey for Geocities. Goodbye old friend.

I was a Goecities community manager. Memories ripe with ICQ conversations, Usenet chats, and nasty nested table layouts stolen from Yahoo.

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