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So Geocities is shutting down...

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Thu, 05/07/2009 - 14:32 — qrleon

Any favorite sites? Perhaps some KNP-related things that should be preserved?

This appears to be the homepage of a spam bot. What it does on its days off is its own business!

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Mon, 05/11/2009 - 12:19 — SpindleyQ
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Someone should probably do a

Someone should probably do a pass through the Klik & Play webring -- I'm sure there must be some Geocities gems in there.

I once had a Geocities website which was a sort of half-tongue-in-cheek guide to breaking copy protection, written in the most egregious l33t-speak I could muster. I even rendered a "D ULT1M4T3 CR4CK3RZ H4NDB00K" logo in POV-RAY. The thing that amused me about it was that it was actually technically accurate; I knew _just_ enough to have had a little bit of success, and I laid it out. I also set up a custom hotmail address (surely lost to the winds of time now) and got a few hilarious emails to it, emulating my horrible writing style, begging me to teach them to be hackers. Good times.

I'm pretty sure I also had a Geocities website that I created without access to a graphical web browser. I remember it looking pretty goddamn special once I could finally see it in Netscape.

Mon, 05/11/2009 - 16:13 — qrleon
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Huh, I remember this game.

CYBERTRON 2097

I wonder if Sword Girl and the Poison Water still exists...

Mon, 05/11/2009 - 17:57 — SpindleyQ
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Thank you, Geocities, for

Thank you, Geocities, for without you, I never would have known that prominent webcartoonist David Willis was, in a previous life, a Klik & Play auteur.

(Downloadable here, for the morbidly curious.)

Tue, 05/12/2009 - 11:01 — snapman
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Someday I'll upload that

Someday I'll upload that "FUTURE FANTASY RPG" I got off a geocities page a few months ago. The best part was the attempt at "Anime Cut Scenes".

edit: ha, I think that game's creator is still in action, making stuff. Also, a quick search reveals there's not too much KnP stuff left on geocities:

see here.

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 13:55 — SpindleyQ
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I think Google might be

I think Google might be throwing away results that haven't been updated in 10 years, because I didn't see Ben's Klik & Play Page (the guestbook is completely worth checking out) or Creation Madness ("Nonsense" is amazing) in the list.

Now I've gotta try some alternative search engines. Oh MAN.