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Nostalgia and Geocities
Hands up all those who remember Geocities? Many an evening I’d be sitting up late with my old IBM PC with 4 mb hard drive, (WOW) surfing the net via a dial up modem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWg6cgFnIUThe ‘joys’ of being bumped off and having to redial, many times. I don’t know how often I managed to restrain myself from throwing the modem, if not the whole computer out the window.
But anyway, I was having a browse through a Yahoo group and found a reference to those Geocities pages of ‘WestHollywood’ which were a major site for so many girls in the 90’s. Evidently there are some people who are or were trying to have them restored for public use as it is still in existence.
Here is the url which takes you to the pages they are working on.
http://www.reocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/3162/ugirls01.html
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Nostalgia is great (looking back!). Those modems may have been pesky surfing – so spare a thought for those of us who were uploading websites back then on to Geocities.
The “history of TgR” records that it wasn’t just the Americans wandering round West Hollywood. We were there in WestHollywood 7788.
The snapshot of the early web site in reocities is next to useless as we had already upgraded to a yahoo domain name when their snapshots were taken.
If you go to the InternetArchive http://web.archive.org/web/19990715000000*/http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/7788 you can see samples of TgR going back to 1999. The trouble is that most of the links on these early web pages are broken.
But when editing the website on Yahoo down a flaky modem became too hard I resorted to building the entire web site on my PC and uploading it. A few months ago I was throwing out some old ZIP disks (remember them??) and I found a virtually complete copy of the early TrannyRadio (aka TgR) site.
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Ah yes Adrian and Claire,
West Hollywood and Geocities…. memories… of scratching around on my old “386” IBM compatible NEC , APC “somethingorother” Might have been the one with the “huge” hard drive, as much as 10meg!!!
Finding out about the big wide internet world of (only) crossdressing then,(no “gender diveristy”)….Big change from reading about it all in magazines such as the Swish Publications one out of London, “World of Transvestism” and bought from “questionable outlets” such as “Liberated Bookshop”
My how times and technology have changed…
Regards
Caty
NB Not to mention “buying direct” out of the Swish shop in Soho….All rugged up against the cold London winter, but minus the hat and sunglasses!!!!. Would have looked out of place in a darkish London twilight!!!
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An IBM 386, yes, thank you Caty, I can’t recall which of the early numbers of Windows I had then, 3.2 or some such number. ‘Microsoft Word for Windows’ had a bundle of floppy discs which you had to load on one after the other and took nearly an hour.
The ‘snapshot’ of early Geocities was only offered as a reminder of things we had back then. not as an example, it was of course, limited but to newbies like me it was a wonderful gateway to meeting new people and making some lovely friends.
I think I recall the Liberated Bookshop and spent quite a few dollars in there on WoTV, ‘Female Mimics’ and the glossy American Publication, ‘Lady Like’ by JoAnn Roberts. She also brought out a more world-centric magazine and asked me to be the Australian Corespondent, I was the third person to be asked, the others declined! -
Was Shangrila associated with Geocities? or was it something entirely different?
Back in the days when a search engine could give meaningful results.
