You like Geocities? Well now you can download it...

[RCA]

It's just shy of 1 terabyte large and will be released as a torrent.

Also why are so many awesome oldschool staples of the internet going away?

RIP Geocities and Limewire

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... ent-904057

[Jesda]

Anyone remember Scour.net? That's where I found my first "disturbing" videos on the internet. I was a naive teenager.

[RCA]

I don't =/

[4cefed]

Will teh pr0nz still be available on limewire or is the entire network going away?

[Alfador]

Will teh pr0nz still be available on limewire or is the entire network going away?

First of all, I don 't get why anyone would still use limewire. Second, no, it's not going away. All the injunction really does is it forces the company to stop distributing the client, and to release a patch that prevents copyright material from being downloaded. The latter part of that being almost entirely technically infeasible, even before considering they have no way to force people to download or apply it. It doesn't take your current client away, can't really shut down any of the 100 or so mirror sites that hose installers for it, and can't shut down the "network" because it has no physical location or server. The limewire network is almost entirely frameworked by other clients on it, and there are like 20 other client programs that connect to the same netwoprk besides limewire.

As for Geocities, I don't get why anyone would want to. It was mostly vanity sites with people posting annoying pictures of themselves and their cats anyway. We have youtube for that now.

[RCA]

As for Geocities, I don't get why anyone would want to. It was mostly vanity sites with people posting annoying pictures of themselves and their cats anyway. We have youtube for that now.

It is for those who want the novelty of having Geocities even though it is going under. I am sure plenty of people will get a kick out of having this information.

[flohtingPoint]

Anyone remember Scour.net? That's where I found my first "disturbing" videos on the internet. I was a naive teenager.

Scour was excellent. I remember sitting in the lab at DeVry for hrs after class and snagging tons of videos. It was way better than using IRC.

[PoorManQ45]

Interesting, I have a couple TB to spare. Wonder how my ISP would look upon this...

It sucks because this would be a legitimate usage and they'd probably throttle the hell out of me!

Seriously though, there are a TON of articles that used to be on geocities for specific and rare items.

[Amays U G37S]

I remember when the web was text. Only thing on it was pics, and Rotten.com was it! Lol creepy, don't wanna remember, crap. Scary in your early childhood, lol. Internet ftw!

The boom of .com's, and the people that are millionaires now.

Poor geocities, it had a strong fight. I think this was a predecessor to Facebook, and Myspace, Youtube, such as Deadjournal or Livejournal.

They are making the interweb stricter to possibly fund a lot of lost money back into the govt from things such as music, that were once larger profits to the govt. Just think of all the money they got from music before the internet. Johnny Cash, Elvis, HANK WILLIAMS, Dolly Parton, Kiss, Skid Row, Vinyls, Tapes, CDS!... etc...

For the music downloaders, you need to find an app that is not hosted in America, such as limewire was.

[RCA]

It sucks because this would be a legitimate usage and they'd probably throttle the hell out of me!

Same exact thing I was thinking.

My ISP: "Port Xxx is off the charts. He's torrenting." ::bandwidth lows to nothing::

Me: "Hey WTF? This time the torrent is legit!"

My ISP: "Orl'y? Well how about the other 3 terabytes..."

Me: "You know what, let's just keep all of that to ourselves"

[Alfador]

Interesting, I have a couple TB to spare. Wonder how my ISP would look upon this...

It sucks because this would be a legitimate usage and they'd probably throttle the hell out of me!

Seriously though, there are a TON of articles that used to be on geocities for specific and rare items.

Well the way ISPs are now, It's kind of crappy. The "unlimited" bandwidth you pay for even on a land line is in fact very limited, usually to around 250-500 GB a month. Their rationale is that normal "residential use" shouldn't go above that and that anything that high should be paying out the a** for their small business services, even though most small businesses use less bandwidth than 12 year old watching funny cat videos on youtube every weekend.

Honestly, if I had the space to spare, I'd probably check it out, but I don't.