Today is the day when we say goodbye forever to GeoCities after 15 long years. GeoCities first opened in 1994 and it was an instant hit. This service did more for the web than almost all other Internet services ever designed, and it played a major role in the web’s popularity. Many believe that the Internet wouldn’t have become so popular if it weren’t for GeoCities.
Everything changed for GeoCities in 1999 when Yahoo bought it for about $3.75 billion, which is one of the worst deals ever as the service is closing today, October 26, 2009. GeoCities will no longer exist therefore you won’t be able to develop a free website using this service. Yahoo already announced that GeoCities is closing many months ago as the service is no longer helping its customers.
Yahoo is developing other services to allow users to build relationships online. Many are happy that GeoCities is gone because the service is “so 20th century” and we’re moving towards a new Internet with new services.
What do you think? Are you sad that GeoCities is closing? Actually, I’m sure there are many who don’t know what GeoCities really is. Well, share your views in the comments section below.
GeoCities Closing
I hope they don’t replace it with something else that ends up being a glorified facebook page… with a long user agreement, enabling yahoo to sensor the information. just saying. Alot more people use the interwebs now. PTA moms and sensitive PC types. (I think the term PC is also going the way of geocities)
RIP geocities. you have done so much for us. xkcd eulogizes you:
http://www.xkcd.com/
Hard to believe but I created my first website at Geocities when people who knew HTML were called geeks. Unfortunately a lot of people will be losing the data, although yahoo did their part of notifying users in advance. I will personally miss it.
Yeah, yahoo definitely did their part.