made by a thirteen year-old in 1996

April 27, 2010 4:42 AM

Geocities is Back!!!! and they've taken over the world! from the crafty folks at Wondertonic.com...make sure to read their terms of use before browsing the site. some autoplaying music...

Also from Wonder-Tonic:
Waiting For Bieber
FREE ISTOCK PHOTOS
the Senior Year Button
Steam Powered Youtube
Limerick Questions
The Cage Curve
Golden Eye a Website
More Jokes without category
and previously on metafilter: Buble-raptorShadyURL

posted by Potomac Avenue (22 comments total)

Reminds me a lot of Tobi's Timemachine for firefox which obviously is handling it client-side and less likely to fall over as it break someone else's servers
posted by davemee at 4:56 AM on April 27, 2010 [2 favorites]

Best ToS ever.
posted by Xoebe at 5:10 AM on April 27, 2010

Just noticed his Twitter account.

Nothing gets the old heart pumping like a whale chase 11:12 AM Apr 12th

holding manservant's ankles while he tries to get my eyeglasses out of the sea 2:45 PM Mar 27th

Nothing like a fine sunrise to wash away memories of last night's cannibalism. 8:35 AM Feb 19th

Unstoppable lols.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 5:15 AM on April 27, 2010 [1 favorite]

Ha! I can't get it to work myself.. but Metafilter looks fabulous, especially with the cheesy muzak. :D
posted by Monkeymoo at 5:16 AM on April 27, 2010

My. Eyes.
posted by kittyprecious at 5:21 AM on April 27, 2010

Did anyone else close the wrong Metafilter then go, "Why the heck is that music still playing?!"
posted by biochemist at 5:39 AM on April 27, 2010

I think my favorite thing about this is that MySpace just redirects you to the unaltered page, as though he realized nothing he could do would come closer than the real deal.
posted by Rocky Dennis Memorial Inner Beauty Pageant at 5:56 AM on April 27, 2010 [5 favorites]

... the music is surprisingly hypnotic.
posted by Xany at 6:03 AM on April 27, 2010

I'm surprised I had to hit the "Senior Year" button three times before I heard "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 6:05 AM on April 27, 2010

Every so often you get a peek at the cutting edge of simulation technology - usually via some PR thing for the air force or NASA.

This takes all of those out behind the woodshed and kicks the collective asses.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 6:13 AM on April 27, 2010

Nice use of ShadyURL for the terms of service.
posted by brundlefly at 7:13 AM on April 27, 2010

I saw Waiting for Bieber this morning and it was so depressing I killed myself. Fortunately I just now saw SteamTube and the fact that you have to keep the pressure up or the video and audio cut out revived me.
posted by DU at 7:20 AM on April 27, 2010

Time Rift also revived me. I'm double-bevived.
posted by DU at 7:27 AM on April 27, 2010

This is actually an improvement.
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 7:51 AM on April 27, 2010

Useful companion piece: Web Economy Bullshit Generator.
posted by applemeat at 8:14 AM on April 27, 2010

I think Geocities is now the equivalent of looking through thirty year old yearbooks and laughing.
posted by medea42 at 8:20 AM on April 27, 2010 [1 favorite]

Every now and then someone makes a post like this and I want to favorite ten times, just because it makes me happy.
posted by routergirl at 8:33 AM on April 27, 2010

They've brought the img tag back to metafilter.. I'm going there all the time now! :)
posted by HuronBob at 8:45 AM on April 27, 2010

Did anyone else click the "Geocities is Back" link, and then it times out? Geocities is indeed back.

(It did load on the second try, but both times it was still a great joke)
posted by chambers at 9:41 AM on April 27, 2010 [1 favorite]

I put the website of the geocitiesizer into the geocitiesizer.
Then I put the result into the geocitiesizer.
Then I got bored, and made a sandwich.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 9:44 AM on April 27, 2010

Hm. I got unicorns and amazons and tie fighters.

Disappointing. I always thought of Metafilter as a flaming skull and Calvin urinating on MTV kind of page.
posted by qvantamon at 2:31 PM on April 27, 2010

Do NOT point this thing at boingboing.net. Such a wrestling match between 2.0 and 1.0 could have adverse health consequences.
posted by Twang at 4:23 PM on April 27, 2010