Yahoo is retiring its Geocities addresses, so I’ve transferred the Alabama Philosophical Society website from www.geocities.com/ALPHILSOC to alphilsoc.org (still hosted by Yahoo). The old address currently redirects to the new one, but probably won’t do so indefinitely, so APS fans should make a note of the new one.
I’m always kind of surprised to see anyone still using geocities.
Path dependence, man.
Gotcha 😉
Oh?
It was great for hosting a free website. If you wanted to share info with people and not have to shell out money (cause you’re not making money off it) it was great.
I had to move my website to a paid site. The only benefit was more space, so I could upload more research materials.
Geocities went from free to paid a year or two (or three? I don’t recomember) ago; so all the new change involves is a new URL.
I heard about the shutdown before it happened, and was thinking of trying to organize an effort to save some of the pages, but didn’t do it; however, I did do a search to find pages of interest on the site. The Geocities URLs in the following don’t work anymore, but all of them can be accessed via the Wayback Machine.
I see that Larry Gambone has been moving some of his GeoCities pages off:
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/bc-counter-culture.html
although there was some stuff of his on GeoCities that he doesn’t mention, including “The Primal Wound” and .doc’s of the first 11 issues of Any Time Now:
http://www.geocities.com/vcmtalk/primalwound.html
http://www.geocities.com/vcmtalk/anytimenowarchive.html
The original Movement of the Libertarian Left website was also on GeoCities, and had a prototypically GeoCities-ish garish design scheme:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/9167/
Dan Clore and Eugene Plawiuk also had pages on GeoCities:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/
Now for some of the pages I found.
Anarchism related pages:
An Anarchist FAQ — while other sites have it, this is the original location:
http://www.geocities.com/capitolHill/1931/
From the same URL, Daniel Guerin’s book “Anarchism: From Theory to Practice”, which is also available at other URLs but this seems to be the original online version:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/guerin/contents.html
Collective Action Notes, including some great articles by people such as Paul Avrich, Michael Seidman, and Max Nomad:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2379/
Pages about insurrectionary anarchism:
http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/
http://www.geocities.com/insurrectionary_anarchists/
The Anarchist Sampler:
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/5065/
Sci-fi and genre fiction related pages:
A Raymond F. Jones page:
http://www.geocities.com/calmeacham/
Fantastic Reviews, reviewing various genre books including a small but good selection of reviews of books by “neglected masters”:
http://fantasticreviews.com/
Ray Nelson’s short story “Eight O’Clock in the Morning”, the source for the movie They Live:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/9412/8oclock.html
Howard the Duck: Misunderstood Mallard, proof that a very bad sci-fi movie can get a very good fanpage:
http://www.geocities.com/cecinid/HowardIndex.html
From John VanSickle’s Freeloading Home Page, a page devoted to Usenet personality Gharlane of Eddore (the pseudonym is from a character in the Lensmen series) and The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés:
http://www.geocities.com/evilsnack/gharlane.htm
http://www.geocities.com/evilsnack/cliche.htm
The Masked Bookwyrm’s Graphic Novel Reviews:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/study/4273/graphic.html
The Cavalcade of Schlock, reviewer of many genre films:
http://www.geocities.com/tyrannorabbit/