October 2009
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Goodbye GeoCities: 7 Retro Things We'll Miss... →
(via dareen)
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End of an era...
newatb:
Being on the internet is a lot like being in the Wild West, or at least, the romanticized version of it. The first time I went online was (I believe), 1994. I built my first website by the time I was 9 years old. Back in that age, websites weren’t freakishly complex and images took forever to load. 28.8k was considered lightening fast. I know its nostalgia kicking in big time, but the...
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Geocities is gone, but sites like Angelfire's... →
dailyhuff:
Enjoy, kids. Most of the Web looked just like that in 1998.
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“I felt a great disturbance in the Web, as if millions of animated GIFs of...”
– A commenter at The Consumerist on the death of Geocities. (via ohryankelley)
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So Long, GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed -... →
“We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of...”
– GeoCities’ time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Denny Blaze's "Average Homeboy" →
“The Average Homeboy… I’m just a middle class guy who’s trying to express myself through my rap music. Once you watch my Demo, you’ll just be BLAZED!”
An Early Academic Perspective on Online Identity
I found an interesting scholarly analysis by David Chandler, Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web. This 1998 piece attempts to break down the phenomenon with such subjects as ”Asynchronous Mass Communication” and ”The Buildiing Blocks of Webpage Identity”. Chandler uses the post-modern term Bricolage to refer to the cut and paste assemblage of...