Geocities - "Under Construction" gif archive

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

by dlnovell • 17 years ago

58 26 17 years ago

dlnovell• 17 years ago

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.

pbhjpbhj• 17 years ago

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

hernan7• 17 years ago

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

DannoHung• 17 years ago

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

panic• 17 years ago

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

trafficlight2• 17 years ago

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

tybris• 17 years ago

Web 0.9 was awesome.

zandorg2• 17 years ago

I guess you could call it HTML 1.0...

v2interactive• 17 years ago

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

trafficlight2• 17 years ago

That's what you'd call laying pipe.

derwiki• 17 years ago

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.

zandorg2• 17 years ago

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.

thwarted• 17 years ago

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

hypermatt• 17 years ago

My childhood coming back to me !

yan• 17 years ago

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

prodigal_erik• 17 years ago

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...

axod• 17 years ago

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

buugs• 17 years ago

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

GHFigs• 17 years ago

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

leif• 17 years ago

who else wants a "web 1.0" holiday?

aristus• 17 years ago

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.

markbao• 17 years ago

Dialup users beware!

RevRal• 17 years ago

Nostalgia overload.

teeja• 17 years ago

Good gawd, y'all!

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

clutchski• 17 years ago

be thankful. history we can laugh at is rare.

jonny_noog• 17 years ago

Film noir under construction:

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

Classy.

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