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Posted October 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Are they still letting people publish pages? We should go on a massive bad taste binge and make as many sites as possible before the kill switch is thrown.
A screen full of blinking variable speed marquees telling everyone how great Roxette are with a badly off key midi (something of a tautology, I'll admit) of "The look". Oh and a low res bitmap as a background image that wastes 2-3MB of your bandwidth

You will also be required, by the Law of Bad Internet Taste, to include a million animated .gifs that have nothing to do with actual site.
Posted October 26, 2009
Animated gifs IN a blinking scrolling marquee!!!
Posted October 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Are they still letting people publish pages? We should go on a massive bad taste binge and make as many sites as possible before the kill switch is thrown.
A screen full of blinking variable speed marquees telling everyone how great Roxette are with a badly off key midi (something of a tautology, I'll admit) of "The look". Oh and a low res bitmap as a background image that wastes 2-3MB of your bandwidth
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JudasIscariot: You will also be required, by the Law of Bad Internet Taste, to include a million animated .gifs that have nothing to do with actual site.

Holy fuck! Look at those webrings!
Posted October 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Animated gifs IN a blinking scrolling marquee!!!

YES!!! I like the cut of your jib, sir!
Posted October 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Animated gifs IN a blinking scrolling marquee!!!
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JudasIscariot: YES!!! I like the cut of your jib, sir!

Thanks, I just had it cut
Posted October 26, 2009
i made a geocities page when i was eight that had a word that followed your cursor around and realigned whenever it stopped moving. i miss that.
Posted October 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Animated gifs IN a blinking scrolling marquee!!!

Pulsing is the new blink!
(needs a webkit-based browser, that is: Safari or Chrome)
We can recreate the irritation with technologies made for the modern web!
Posted October 26, 2009
Shouldn't that read "GeoCities gets buried today!" ? They where dying since.... dunno, 10+ years?
But it is a sad day. I'm on of those who's gotten their first Internet experience with CompuServe *cough* still blaming AOL *cough* and their first webpage on GeoCities.
Posted October 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Honestly, my VERY first thought was hearing a bit of A Flock Of Seagulls, I felt like I was playing GTA Vice City...

Did they happen to walk out of an 80s American style telephone box that seemingly appeared out of nowhere?
Posted October 26, 2009
Boy, I'll miss getting seedy advice from a webpage that tries to be edgy by surrounding itself by flames and playing haunting Twilight Zone music.
Posted October 26, 2009
Good old XKCD...
Posted October 26, 2009
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captfitz: i made a geocities page when i was eight that had a word that followed your cursor around and realigned whenever it stopped moving. i miss that.

I had no idea...this is so sad. I guess they wern't making any money. The worst thing about this is that a lot of old archived pages that people probably forgot they had will be gone now, along with everything on those pages. Sad.
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Aliasalpha: Are they still letting people publish pages? We should go on a massive bad taste binge and make as many sites as possible before the kill switch is thrown.
A screen full of blinking variable speed marquees telling everyone how great Roxette are with a badly off key midi (something of a tautology, I'll admit) of "The look". Oh and a low res bitmap as a background image that wastes 2-3MB of your bandwidth

Which "tautology", the rhetorical one, or the logical one?
Post edited October 26, 2009 by anjohl
Posted October 26, 2009
It's sad to see GeoCities die. GeoCities gave me my first experience with creating a website, and although it was crap, it was mine! Even though time has killed it off, I will always remember the fun of making it. Most of all, I'm going to miss those flame gifs! Goodbye, GeoCities, and rest in peace...
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Posted October 27, 2009
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anjohl: Which "tautology", the rhetorical one, or the logical one?

Well I was referring to the fact that "Off Key" and "Midi" might as well have the same definition...
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Aliasalpha: Honestly, my VERY first thought was hearing a bit of A Flock Of Seagulls, I felt like I was playing GTA Vice City...
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Navagon: Did they happen to walk out of an 80s American style telephone box that seemingly appeared out of nowhere?

Ha if they did I'd have clubbed them over the head, nicked the tardis and gone back to rescue the old episodes from the BBC junking process
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Aliasalpha: Animated gifs IN a blinking scrolling marquee!!!
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Miaghstir: Pulsing is the new blink!
(needs a webkit-based browser, that is: Safari or Chrome)

No no no, thats too gentle. The genuine annoyance with the marquee is its movement perpendicular to the monitor refresh so it always looks awful and jerky no matter how flashy and shiny you try to make it
Post edited October 27, 2009 by Aliasalpha
Posted October 27, 2009
Aliasalpha, to nitpick: Off-key would mean in a different key than the one intended, IE, in the key of D when you should be in C. MIDI is just a way of producing electronic sound.
So there was nothing tautological about it.
But I was only nitpicking.
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