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+Kardboard+ 04-24-2009 08:45 AM

GeoCities Finally Bites the Dust
 
RIP, GeoCities. Thanks for the badly animated backgrounds and the HTML 3.0 memories.


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GeoCities demolished

Yahoo! says! bye! to! $4bn! dotcom! relic!


Yahoo! plans to close GeoCities, the dot com era build-your-own-website operation it paid $4.6bn in stock for in 1999.
In a posting to its help pages yesterday, Yahoo! said it would stop accepting new GeoCities members immediately, then turn off the lights "later this year."

"We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," Yahoo! said.

GeoCities prospered in the early days of the consumer web as an easy way for tech newcomers to build and host their own web page. It has long-since been rendered obsolete by newer social networking sites and improved web design applications.
Yahoo! promised to offer help to GeoCities users who want to preserve their data nearer closure time. ®

EDIT: Source is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/24/geocities_bye/

Presto 04-24-2009 09:07 AM

I think I had a geocities page back in the day. I thought it was gone a long time ago.

CRS 04-24-2009 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Presto (Post 6395676)
I think I had a geocities page back in the day. I thought it was gone a long time ago.

Geocities went away with AsianAvenue, apt107, angelfire and all that crap.

Great68 04-24-2009 09:54 AM

Hahaha I can't believe my geocities site I made back in grade 10 is still up!

It's got to have been at least 12 years since i've touched it.

Shun Izaki 04-24-2009 10:25 AM

Wow.... geocites + angelfire were awesome... the xanga before xanga.

That being said, asianave still sucks, and I still have my hat, bag keychain, and cd somewhere lol

trancehead 04-24-2009 10:31 AM

http://af.lygo.com/d/common/getyourown_new.jpg

InvisibleSoul 04-24-2009 10:43 AM

It's not dead yet... it's just been placed on life support, pending death in the near future.

My girlfriend's little anime site she made is still available on Geocities as well, and that was from over ten years ago...

fanatiX 04-24-2009 11:39 AM

ads are still worth billions of dollars...

q0192837465 04-24-2009 12:21 PM

is xanga still up? I remember making a geocitoes site back when I was in highschool. Good memories

+Kardboard+ 04-24-2009 03:50 PM

Xanga is still pretty active! I just found out the other day when I was looking back at some of my high school stuff for kicks ahhah :lol

pandalove 04-24-2009 03:57 PM

i had a geo cities reboot fan page.. it was awesome

Harvey Specter 04-24-2009 05:50 PM

Wow, geocities was so old school. I remember using them during my compuserve days, lol.

wahyinghung 04-24-2009 06:14 PM

No!!!!! I Learned how to make a website through geocities back then around sometime in mid-late nineties. Pretty much abandoned on my own website eons ago :D and the stupid mb cap.......

hotjoint 04-24-2009 06:36 PM

I remember geocities

PavelGTR 04-24-2009 07:50 PM

hahah my site from 04 is still up

tiger_handheld 04-24-2009 09:06 PM

post yar geocities urls !! lets give them some hits before it hits the dust!!

orange7 04-24-2009 09:24 PM

lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site.

+Kardboard+ 04-24-2009 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tiger_handheld (Post 6396599)
post yar geocities urls !! lets give them some hits before it hits the dust!!

+1!!!! :thumbsup:
Quote:

Originally Posted by orange7 (Post 6396615)
lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site.

lol what?!?!

twitchyzero 04-24-2009 10:49 PM

i remember making my first AA account in grade 5 ten years ago lol

i had a dragon layout...and there was 6o4 in my screename :)

ditched that for xanga..then two years ago i ditched that for facebook. Now i dont even touch facebook.

What's next?

orange7 04-24-2009 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orange7 (Post 6396615)
lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site.

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Originally Posted by +Kardboard+ (Post 6396698)
+1!!!! :thumbsup:

lol what?!?!


k... i've misssplet the name..

but i remember if you misspell the name by 1 letter, you get a porn site


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