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Fun with GeoCities
Yeah, I recall when GeoCities used to give you like 2 megs for a homepage. What I would do is then just create as many other accounts as I needed, and link my homepage to images stored there, for a page as huge as I wanted. Later, when I started writing pages on other servers, I would still use GeoCities as my image repository when I really needed them.
That was about 3 years ago, in the "before time", aka pre-dot.bomb era, when it was also easy to spoof your client to the top of a search engine's results using some very simple tricks.
<sigh>
It was all easy money for someone with very little skill, but as with so many things it was only cool when few were doing it. When it became mainstream, and nobody ran an honest search, and GeoCities was hosting millions of parasite images, it became too much to ignore and the web admins did what we most feared all those years: They added a few lines of code that made it all stop.
<sigh again>
Now we've lost something, we've lost that open disk space that made even a poor man look like a bigshot online without even having an account, the tools that let a web designer with hours or days of experience land big money contracts, and even things like Napster, where impoverished folks worldwide could suddenly bask in the glories of a music collection worthy of the richest yuppie.
...hurts too much to remember....
...the way we.....were............
<tears>
OK I'm done. Jesus.
I'm really too lazy to do this next part on my own, but does Geocities allow redirect tags? What about making a GeoCities account that just redirects to the page with the image? Wouldn't you then have a GeoCities page as your last visited page?
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