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    stiletto001: The Star Wars parody site at #16 is a parody of how the old SW official website looked right around Episode 1. As far as Geocities archiving goes, lo... more »
    Danielle Kouyoumdjian: What about the fanfiction ménage à trois that I wrote(and, in my youth, foolishly posted on a tacky Geocities site) involving myself, Mulder and Kry... more »
    rhmauldi: GRUDS IN SPACE? I haven't thought about that game in a long time. It has to be one of the worst text adventures (with pictures or not) ever made. more »
    Burke: I was on Angelfire originally, which was just as bad. #fanzines more »
    frederic: I was reading and enjoyer the "Grand List Of Science Fiction Clichés" just a few weeks ago [www.geocities.com] #fanzines more »
    Guang: Wow....geocities.....I think I opened my account there eleven or twelve years ago. #fanzines more »
    Sunshineyness: *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 t... more »
    TheAlmanac: I spent the weekend checking the remaining GeoCities links on my site devoted to fictional timelines (an old-school site in itself, really)--I still h... more »
    yesquite: It's like a million under construction gifs cried out and were suddenly silenced... #fanzines more »
    tahrey001: thanks Charlie... i've harvested the addresses off these (with a little help from zoom - your monitor must be v. high rez! - and google) and will be p... more »
    redpiller: It's sad, and makes me nostalgic because I learned HTML by making my own site on GeoCities. Before all the other social networking sites, it was one ... more »
    stgstgdside: check here for the archival attempts: [ascii.textfiles.com] more »
    LiC: 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 ... more »
    ShadowStaarr: Good old Geocities. Long ago when I was still new to the Internet and just got into things like Digimon and Animorphs and what have you, I'd turn up ... more »
    comics0026: How much of Geocities is preserved in the Internet Archive? #fanzines more »
  • #geocities

    The Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss On Geocities

    The clunky backgrounds, blaring Midi sound files, and ugly ads... there's a lot we won't miss about Geocities when it shuts down today. But it was home to tons of fan sites and science-fiction resources: here are some we'll miss. More »
  • #celebrityfanzines

    Watchmen Creator's New Medium: Fanzines

    Having abandoned mainstream comics, Watchmen creator Alan Moore is turning to fanzines for new project Dodgem Logic. The 40-page bi-monthly zine offering (in Moore's words) "subterranean exotica in a bleached-out cultural and social landscape" launches next month. [Bleeding Cool]
  • #weirdtales

    Celebrate the 85th Anniversary of Weird Tales

    85 years old this month, Weird Tales is the magazine of the "bizarre and unusual" that sustained the career of H.P. Lovecraft and his scifi-horror pals back in the 1920s when it first launched. In its early days, Weird Tales set itself apart from other pulps by always going one step deeper into the freak zone. Stories dealt with aliens, witches, and mutants. Covers often featured devils making love to ladies, monsters menacing beleaguered ingenues, and (my personal favorite, above) devilish monster ladies making love to scantily clad lovelies. Now the venerable, perverted, brilliant magazine is celebrating its 85th birthday in style. More »