[+Kardboard+]

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


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 (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html) 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]

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

[CRS]

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]

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]

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]

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

[InvisibleSoul]

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]

ads are still worth billions of dollars...

[q0192837465]

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

[+Kardboard+]

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]

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

[Harvey Specter]

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

[wahyinghung]

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]

I remember geocities

[PavelGTR]

hahah my site from 04 is still up

[tiger_handheld]

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

[orange7]

lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site.

[+Kardboard+]

post yar geocities urls !! lets give them some hits before it hits the dust!!
+1!!!! :thumbsup:
lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site.
lol what?!?!

[twitchyzero]

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]

lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site.

+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