GeoCities is gone

[Mr7134]

So, GeoCities is gone.

The news passed me by. Now that I have become aware of it I feel slightly sad. GeoCities reminds me of the old school, dial up, pay by the minute Internet. There must be a ton of **** on Geocities that will now be gone forever. Back in the day it was one of the main places for people to put their stupid, personal, wacky ****. I can’t see people baking up some random stuff they did back in ’99 and have probably forgotten about.

In some ways, and this might be an exaggeration, it seems like the end of an era.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10370193-2.html

October 7, 2009 4:18 PM PDT

It's time to say good-bye to GeoCities

by Don Reisinger

Yahoo released a "final notice" on Wednesday reminding GeoCities users that the free site creation service will be closing up shop later this month.

"On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and file," Yahoo wrote in a statement to GeoCities users.

The company said any GeoCities user that wants to maintain the site will be able to port it to Yahoo's Web Hosting service, which would cost $4.99 per month for a year and $9.95 per month afterward. GeoCities Plus customers can port their sites to Yahoo Web Hosting at no additional charge.

Yahoo first announced that it would be closing GeoCities in April. At the time, the company didn't divulge when the service would finally close.

Yahoo wrote on its GeoCities Help page that its decision to close the site was rooted in its desire to help its "customers explore and build relationships online in other ways."

GeoCities' closure marks an end of an era for the Web. The free site-building service, which Yahoo bought in 1999 for $2.9 billion, was a precursor to many of the self-publishing and social-media tools Web users employ today.

As someone who used GeoCities to create his first personal site, I find it a bit sad to say good-bye. That said, it's about time.

Via (The Business Insider)

 

[Songbird]

I'm surprised Excite is still around.

www.excite.com

 

[buckweaver]

Whew. Glad I saved all my Geocities sites onto my hard drive already.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I thought this was a thread dredged up from 2004, and I was ready to type "LOL!"

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Whew. Glad I saved all my Geocities sites onto two floppy disks.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Whew. Glad my Compuserve chat buddies told me about the demise of Geocities sites.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Guess heaven needed another roost of flying toasters

 

[sportsguydave]

Pay to move to Yahell, huh?

I'm guessing that won't go so well.