Well, the time has come, and GeoCities will be gone for good after Monday – or so Yahoo says. Time to take a last look at an old friend… Or is it? Time (Monday?) will tell.
Geocities to close October 26
October 21st, 2009 by Dunc · 1 Comment
→ 1 CommentFiled: fandom · space & science
Tagged: fan history · history · technology
You can also follow us on 
Not a contest.
On Twitter?
Our guide to 
1 response so far ↓
1 jSarek // Oct 21, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Heh, didn’t check dates and accidentally posted in your April thread. So what follows is what I originally posted there:
Holy cow, this is a sobering and saddening milestone. GeoCities was *the* place for putting content on the Internet back in the day. Sure, a few people had Tripod or Angelfire or Virtualave sites, but most of us were on Geocities. I signed up for my (now long-defunct) site there on April 1st of 1998.
When GeoCities went public, they were the first stock I ever purchased of my own volition, which I rode through their purchase by Yahoo! and the Web boom and bust. At the time, I had faith in their product and their future.
Of course, the advertising on the site soon got out of hand, and when they disallowed off-site linking, I finally bailed and moved my site to Freeservers (also now long gone). Geocities continued its drift downhill, but it never went away, and some sites that I’ve visited for over a decade managed to endure there. It will be a shame to finally see them vanish.
To GeoCities. The Web won’t be the same without you.
Leave a Comment