Geocities - "Under Construction" gif archive(textfiles.com)

58 pointsby dlnovell17 jaar geleden26 comments

Geocities - "Under Construction" gif archive

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

16 comments

zandorg17 jaar geleden

On the topic of Geocities shutting down, I found an option in wget which ignores existing files - because Yahoo has a 503 error if you try to spider too many pages.

It's -nc which means 'no clobber' - which is the least helpful phrase considering you could say 'ignore existing'...

When you get a 503, wait about an hour, and then run wget until it fails, then wait an hour, etc, until you've got all 10mb of your webspace.

Also -np to only spider below your page on Geocities.

thwarted17 jaar geleden

"no clobber" matches the shell option of the same name.

axod17 jaar geleden

So all we've really done is replace that lot with the word "Beta".

buugs17 jaar geleden

I'm waiting to see what next big advancement in web development the angled beta graphic changes into.

derwiki17 jaar geleden

It would be interesting to see the trend of using "under construction" graphics over time. At some point it just clicked that web pages are -always- under construction, and we didn't have to be as explicit about it anymore.

tybris17 jaar geleden

Web 0.9 was awesome.

zandorg17 jaar geleden

I guess you could call it HTML 1.0...

[deleted]17 jaar geleden

dlnovell17 jaar geleden

I know this isn't news, the news would be that they're taking Geocities offline, but I thought this animated gif "Under Construction" archive was hilarious.

DannoHung17 jaar geleden

It's sort of poignant, in a way. Like, "For sale, baby shoes, never used."

trafficlight17 jaar geleden

http://www.thesixtyone.com/abledanger/song/For+Sale%3A+Baby+...

panic17 jaar geleden

"Never worn." How do you use a baby shoe?

pbhjpbhj17 jaar geleden

I had the red "renovating" banner with the paintbrush ... wish I'd known then as much as I do now about the web.

hernan717 jaar geleden

There was less to know about the web back then, too. For starters, no CSS.

GHFigs17 jaar geleden

Time to start collecting the millions of variations on the "standard" orange RSS logo, and 80x15 badges, and social network follow buttons, et cetera.

aristus17 jaar geleden

I think he did a grep for "construct.gif". This image:

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/SiSiliconValleyVi...

Is from an ancient version of JavaDoc if I remember correctly.

jonny_noog17 jaar geleden

Film noir under construction:

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/CaCapeCanaveralOr...

Classy.

v2interactive17 jaar geleden

What is up the the guy at the end with the bulging crotch?

trafficlight17 jaar geleden

That's what you'd call laying pipe.

markbao17 jaar geleden

Dialup users beware!

clutchski17 jaar geleden

be thankful. history we can laugh at is rare.

RevRal17 jaar geleden

Nostalgia overload.

yan17 jaar geleden

<MARQUEE><BLINK><FRAMESET>THESE ARE AWESOME!

prodigal_erik17 jaar geleden

You forgot such gems as <font effect=emboss> and <audioscope>, which I was blissfully ignorant of until seeing Kibo make fun of them a decade ago.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/msg/dc569dfec...

teeja17 jaar geleden

Good gawd, y'all!

Why do I think of MTV when I see all that? Dire Straits!

hypermatt17 jaar geleden

My childhood coming back to me !

leif17 jaar geleden

who else wants a "web 1.0" holiday?