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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    10/31/09

    In reply to 20 Best (And 20 Worst) Pets In Science Fiction
    The only problem with Bouncers is that they eventually grow up. #robertaheinlein
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    Image of Guang Guang
    10/27/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    Wow....geocities.....I think I opened my account there eleven or twelve years ago. #fanzines
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    Dirk Anger promoted this comment Guang was starred Guang was unstarred
    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/27/09

    @Guang: I'll miss those black pages with red letters and skulls that told me how to... erm... do cool stuff #fanzines
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    *Sniffle* Aw... remember how the fancy sites would have midi's playing cloying music in the background when you went to the site and could never for the life of you find the off button?

    *sigh* nostalgia... #fanzines
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    Image of yesquite yesquite
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    It's like a million under construction gifs cried out and were suddenly silenced... #fanzines
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    Image of LiC LiC
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    Woah, thanks for reminding me.

    I had an old site up there in 2000 - mostly dorky fan fiction, but there were some photos up there that I didn't have anywhere else. Haha, I think I found my new profile picture.

    Pain in the butt downloading it all, but I'm glad I got it. I wonder if my corny SW fics stood the test of time? *Shudders* I'll try reading it later. #fanzines
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    10/26/09

    @LiC: Oh God... a lot of really shitty/embarrassing Buffy fanfic that I wrote in HS will finally be gone from the internet now with Geocities closing. Horrifying that those ancient sites for a long time were on the first page of stuff that comes up when you google my name. (I posted them before I realized you shouldn't give out your real name on uber geeky stuff.)

    Oh, and don't do it man... trust me. Just don't go back and read fanfic you wrote when you were significantly younger. I've done it and it never ends well. #fanzines
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    Image of comics0026 comics0026
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    How much of Geocities is preserved in the Internet Archive? #fanzines
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    Would you consider Geocities to be the birthplace of Web 2.0? #fanzines
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    My 13 year-old Joe Lansdale fansite is going bye-bye, and it makes me pretty damn sad....

    [www.geocities.com] #fanzines
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    Image of ClauClauClaudia ClauClauClaudia
    10/26/09

    @Allen_Richards: I'm curious, did you choose not to relocate it? Or is it relocated but "not the same", which I can totally understand. #fanzines
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    10/26/09

    @ClauClauClaudia: GeoCities locked me out 6 or 7 years ago, which, if I remember correctly, was about the time Yahoo took them over. AFter going 'round and 'round with the admins, back when they would answer e-mail, I just gave up trying to get back and let it go.

    Around 2000, Joe finally got his own commercial site from the guys who created his friend Andrew Vachss' site, so there was really little need for mine once Yahoo put the block on me.

    I spent a few hours today doing some cutting and pasting of the source code just to save something for posterity. I might upload the images to Facebook....

    Being that I'm a tech-dummy, who had to do what little advanced coding that site needed with a now seriously outdated HTML for Dummies guide, relocating was never an option. #fanzines
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/27/09

    @Allen_Richards: But there are programs for offline navigating, old ones, from the times of dialup connections, that crawled the webpage and downloaded all of it so you would connect, download the web in 10 minutes, then take as many hours as you needed reading it without getting huge bills. You should really look for one of those if you want to keep all of the web #fanzines
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    10/27/09

    @Dirk Anger: Yeah, um, let me repeat one part from my last paragraph - "tech-dummy".

    That's the reason my main site, B-Independent.com, wasn't been overhauled year ago and I've since gone from the main spot for underground horror to a dead shell outshines by facebook and myspace... LOL, I run a site without knowing how to actually run a site. Or use those new-fangled fliberty gibbert programs you're talking about.

    I appreciate the suggestion! #fanzines
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    i used to go onto geocities sites years ago.i have been online since 1993.
    geocities has served its purpose i guess. #fanzines
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    Image of ClauClauClaudia ClauClauClaudia
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    I searched my bookmarks last week and found precious few geocities links. When I visited them to preserve the goodness, half were already no longer there. So it goes. #fanzines
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    Image of ClauClauClaudia ClauClauClaudia
    10/26/09

    Hey, wait, io9... no URLs for us to visit in their final hours? #fanzines
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/26/09

    @ClauClauClaudia: Oh sorry... darn! I should try and add those in... somehow I thought they were down already. I made these screenshots last night! #fanzines
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/26/09

    @ClauClauClaudia: I added URLs for as many of them as I could... but they will be gone any time now... #fanzines
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    Image of ClauClauClaudia ClauClauClaudia
    10/26/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Not before I took a last waltz through, though! And snarfed all of the timeline pages. Yay. Thank you.

    I wonder what time zone midnight they're pulling the plug? Or maybe they won't get around to it until it's tomorrow everywhere. ;-) #fanzines
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    Image of sicboi sicboi
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    ah... i loved those headers saying "the unofficial..... homepage" #fanzines
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    Image of Motoki Motoki
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    Are the Geocities sites being archived on Wayback Machine? ( [www.archive.org] ) I hope so or that Yahoo (who has owned Geocities for some years now ) stored them or gave them to some archive or otherwise did something with them.

    Mass repositories of web sites going away without any backups is like the libraries of Carthage burning.

    Okay not really, but still, hope someone backed them up! #fanzines
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    Image of ClauClauClaudia ClauClauClaudia
    10/26/09

    @Motoki: Yes, but not consistently. For instance, for a fanfic, I found the table of contents, but none of the chapter links had been archived. #fanzines
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    Image of marianocrivelli_93002 marianocrivelli_93002
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    I agree with cadrina.

    In my case, I'll miss an awful lot reading old info about starcraft and its expansion in some geocities sites I had in markers. ; (
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    Image of cadrina cadrina
    10/26/09

    In reply to The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities
    I live in constant fear of something like that happening on livejournal. I think that the geocities case is going to hurt more in the next months when I try to access some old site that I liked and can't because it was on geocities. #fanzines
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment cadrina was starred cadrina was unstarred
    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    10/08/09

    In reply to Concept Art That Reimagines The Greatest Space Epics
    I have a strong hunch that the new TARDIS console will resemble #4.
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