GeoCities Closing: Yahoo GeoCities To Shut Down October 26

Computerworld Blogs:

GeoCities, once the Internet's third most visited domain, will be shutting down on Oct. 26, taking with it thousands of user home pages and decades of data. All that information will be history.... Fortunately, some historians are making sure it's not lost to the annals of time.

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Comments

[skatoolaki]

10:18 AM on 10/26/2009

My first ever - and many subsequent first - websites were hosted on Geocities which I joined in 1997 when I first started using the Internet. Thankfully I have saved them, backed up on my computer, but I will be sad to see these beginning phase of web design and websites go away from the Internet. So glad someone has decided to archive it all.

[robb knie]

09:35 AM on 10/26/2009

Amazing that it lasted as long as it did. Great business, no revenue model and free to users.

[MaxPowerXP]

11:06 PM on 10/25/2009

MySpace is the Geocities of the 21st century

[Katzencats]

04:08 PM on 10/25/2009

I have to shed a tear for the passing of GeoCities. I never had a site there (my first built from scratch was at Angelfire), but knew plenty of people who did. A lot of the sites were help sites for how to do your own website (tips & tricks), Paint Shop Pro tutorials & "tube" sites, generally people passing on their new found knowledge to another crop of newbies.

I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise, after Yahoo quit supplying server space to its own Yahoo Groups, but with the drop in storage space over the years, one would think it shouldn't be a problem. Ah, well - all good things come to an end.

[Fabini]

02:58 PM on 10/25/2009

How soon will Twitter be following this lead?

[honoursplendor]

12:17 PM on 10/26/2009

Hopefully, soon.

[proudloudlib]

03:03 PM on 10/26/2009

Hey, if you don't like Twitter, I have a solution. Don't use it.

[Feanor]

09:58 PM on 10/26/2009

Not actually an option if you visit Huffington Post, as can be seen on this page.