Comments on: How did you start online? Geocities? http://orangejack.com/how-did-you-start-online-geocities/ helping you use the web well Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:57:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: lennylwarmington http://orangejack.com/how-did-you-start-online-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-339 lennylwarmington Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:06:26 +0000 http://orangejack.com/?p=224#comment-339 i made my first webpage on goecities in i think 1995 0r 96. i joined oprah winfrees book club and tried to sell books. i dont think i ever sold a single one. my goal was to get the money to stop flowing into the computer and to get it to start going the other way. i was on rodeo drive in hollywood do you remember they had maps and you could go down the street to visit what your neighbors were doing? i soon pointed my interest in giving away free midis wow free music on the internet so what if it sounded like computer noises. neat stuff then mp3 came along i had been experimenting with shrinking wav files so that i could put them on my webpage.<br>teying to attract people so they could buy stuff from the advertisements i put on the page i officially became a member of linkshare and was going to be rich. never happened.<br> geocities only gave about 3megs webspace which was huge if you did not try and put any media on the page. i could shrink a wav file of a tune from 50 megs to about 5megs by reducing the quality "they were unlistenable"mp3s were rare and i had to go get software to rip wav files from cds and seperate software to encode them into mp3s. to make my own. it was a long process. anyway i still have that webpage and it has kept evolving and now after all these years i still have not been able to reverse the flow of money but i have learned much and had a lot of fun thank you geocities<br>lenny i made my first webpage on goecities in i think 1995 0r 96. i joined oprah winfrees book club and tried to sell books. i dont think i ever sold a single one. my goal was to get the money to stop flowing into the computer and to get it to start going the other way. i was on rodeo drive in hollywood do you remember they had maps and you could go down the street to visit what your neighbors were doing? i soon pointed my interest in giving away free midis wow free music on the internet so what if it sounded like computer noises. neat stuff then mp3 came along i had been experimenting with shrinking wav files so that i could put them on my webpage.
teying to attract people so they could buy stuff from the advertisements i put on the page i officially became a member of linkshare and was going to be rich. never happened.
geocities only gave about 3megs webspace which was huge if you did not try and put any media on the page. i could shrink a wav file of a tune from 50 megs to about 5megs by reducing the quality “they were unlistenable”mp3s were rare and i had to go get software to rip wav files from cds and seperate software to encode them into mp3s. to make my own. it was a long process. anyway i still have that webpage and it has kept evolving and now after all these years i still have not been able to reverse the flow of money but i have learned much and had a lot of fun thank you geocities
lenny

]]> By: Jeremy Hilton http://orangejack.com/how-did-you-start-online-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Jeremy Hilton Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:00:47 +0000 http://orangejack.com/?p=224#comment-256 My first site was an Angelfire site. It's still live! http://www.angelfire.com/fl/mayhem/ My first site was an Angelfire site.

It’s still live!

http://www.angelfire.com/fl/mayhem/

]]> By: Jerry http://orangejack.com/how-did-you-start-online-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Jerry Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:23:42 +0000 http://orangejack.com/?p=224#comment-241 Used MS Publisher 98 to create my first site; messy, code bloated HTML. Hosted on work webhost. Used MS Publisher 98 to create my first site; messy, code bloated HTML. Hosted on work webhost.

]]> By: Kevin Donahue http://orangejack.com/how-did-you-start-online-geocities/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Kevin Donahue Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:35:53 +0000 http://orangejack.com/?p=224#comment-240 I had a Xoom.com site and a Geocities site, before self-hosting with Greymatter. Ah... the good old days. I had a Xoom.com site and a Geocities site, before self-hosting with Greymatter. Ah… the good old days.

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