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RIP GeoCities: Yahoo shuts down web-hosting site

Posted by Joe Siebelts on 10/26/09 • Categorized as Technology, Web

Yahoo’s once popular website host GeoCities will officially shut-down today, as reported in the Los Angeles Times.

The site, which originated in 1994, allowed users to create personal pages for free.  The move comes over ten years after Yahoo purchased the site from its developers.

The closing of the site will eliminate millions of personal pages from the Web, unless transferred elsewhere.

Twitter users reacted to the news of the site’s closing, some sharing personal stories of their first GeoCities experiences and websites:

  1. Iwalani
    IwaDiva (Undisclosed) Almost forgot – RIP Geocities. Had my first General Hospital website on that. And where I first learned HTML. 26 Oct 2009 from web
  2. Greg Kumparak
    GregKumparak (San Luis Obispo, CA) NOOOOOOO. Yahoo is finally pulling the plug on GeoCities. Good bye, first experiences with HTML. 26 Oct 2009 from Seesmic
  3. Jan Dervish
    jandervish (Undisclosed) Joining the chorus of Geocities mourners. My first website was…ahem…Jan’s Web World. I even had a PayPal donation button. #RIPGeoCities 26 Oct 2009 from web
  4. Nonapathy
    nonapathy (Undisclosed) Oh man RIP Geocities, wow you bagged me some of my best times yet. Going to see if my page still exists…. 26 Oct 2009 from web
  5. Kevin Flessing
    Kebis (Costa Mesa, CA) I feel as if as if millions of animated gifs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. RIP Geocities. http://bit.ly/1n8SAX 26 Oct 2009 from web
  6. Eddie Schmid
    edwinthethird (Chicago) The death of Geocities means the death of countless scans of my most prized baseball cards from years past. RIP, sweet prince. 26 Oct 2009 from web
  7. Filipe Josué
    filipejosue (Undisclosed) Geocities was shut down today. As a keen user in the 90s, I feel nostagic, but surely many of our current favourite websites will follow. 26 Oct 2009 from web

Other tweets did not carry the same web-nostalgia:

  1. jen s.
    steenyweeny (Edmonton, Alberta) Good riddance geocities! Burn! 26 Oct 2009 from UberTwitter
  2. Jack Shuai
    removablefriend (Canada) I for one, do not miss Geocities. So long animated GIF’s, annoying auto-load music, and copied-and-pasted codes. 26 Oct 2009 from web
  3. Rory Becker
    RoryBecker (Poole, UK) Geocities disappears today… Average level of hideous crap on internet goes down. Can we target MySpace next? 26 Oct 2009 from Seesmic
  4. Jessica✩Cantlope
    Senshuu (Tennessee) Byebye Geocities! Another cancer of the internet gone. 26 Oct 2009 from web
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  • n_moscoso
    I have just looked and the sites are still online.
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  • n_moscoso
    Not anymore!
  • n_moscoso
    I have uploaded a Geocities site to a new site called Geoticies.ws: >http://www.geocities.ws/retratosmarin/
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  • getsrik
    yahoo shuts only free hosting. paid hosting is intact
  • mfarney
    Indeed, GeoCities was a place where most of us learned HTML. We had to. There weren't many options for getting a free website and the standard look was too common so we had to learn to play around with the code in order to make our pages personal.
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    Mathew Farney - Web Hosting
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