Bob wrote:Had my pages hosted at sirius.com in the 90s before they folded as a local ISP, then at pacbell.net, then at GeoCities before they were crushed like a bug by Yahoo. Editing content at sites.google.com is annoying beyond belief, and the results are ugly even compared to GeoCities, but at least it's free and it's still there, for now. Lots of dead links, have to update things sometime. It is what it is.
I'm pretty pissed that Yahoo chose to buy and subsequently destroy Geocities. As shitty as Geocities was, people made some great content sites on there, and it was a repository for the "social internet" back when having a homepage was the cool thing. Now it's just blogs and Facebook shit.
Apropos of nothing, it's amazing that people who bitched about GeoCities seem to have no problem with Facebook or Google.
I'm concerned that Google will just abandon their services such as their sites like Yahoo did. They've closed down Google Labs, abandoned projects like Google Wave, try to foist their new Gmail interface on people, and like to kill off some of the functionality in their search engine (such as the "+" operator, blocking sites, etc.). That kind of behavior makes me not want to invest in services that I don't have direct control over.