Guest Glass Plate Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Quote Yahoo is to close its personal web hosting site GeoCities later this year. In a statement, the firm says it will no longer be accepting new customers and will focus on helping "customers build new relationships online". Yahoo bought GeoCities for $3.57bn at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999. At its peak, GeoCities boasted millions of active accounts, but it has since fallen out of fashion, with users migrating to social networking sites. Yahoo says that existing GeoCities accounts will remain live for now, although it stresses that users should start looking for alternative sites. "You don't need to change your service today, but we encourage anyone interested in a full-featured web-hosting plan to consider upgrading to our award-winning Yahoo! Web Hosting service," the firm said in an online post. The closure of GeoCities spells the end of Yahoo's free hosting, although other services - such as e-mail accounts - remain unaffected. Rupert Goodwins, editor of the ZDNet website, said the closure of GeoCities was the end of an era. "I think GeoCities was the first proof that you could have something really popular and still not make any money on the internet. "It was a fascinating experiment in the pre-industrial era of the internet, but after the initial exuberance on what the web could do, it turned out to be more complicated than just giving them free hosting. "You need to give users tools to actually do things and make things simple, one of the reasons sites like Facebook and MySpace are so popular," he said. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 yeah, saw this on /. yesterday seeing as i still find some mad weird interesting shit on geocities pages from time to time, you'd imagine they'd do a "freeze in stasis" thing rather than just killing it. i wonder what internet circa 1996's thoughts on this are. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1023822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Area51/Cavern/3210 Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide GORDO's signature Hide all signatures ZOMG! Lazerz pew pew pew!!!!11!!1!!!!1!oneone!shift+one!~!!! Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1023838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tony Danza Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 I made my first Web site on Geocities. It had a lot of spelling errors and yellow text on a red background. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Glass Plate Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 analogue wings said: Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 the site i made my first website on is long dead but I have a feeling I made a geocities page once, no idea if it is still there Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest my usernames always really suck Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Glass Plate said: analogue wings said: IT'S LIKE MY 486DX2 COMPUTER WITH ONLY 32MB OF RAM IS ENDLESSLY THRASHING THE DISK FOR VIRTUAL MEMORY ALL OVER AGAIN Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 a great part of internets history will be lost if they decide to shut it all down. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide azatoth's signature Hide all signatures last.fm the biggest illusion is yourself Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest my usernames always really suck Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Is anyone bothering to archive the MR T ATE MY BALLS page and all of the spinoff pages in what must have been one of the very first significant memes? Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 I've asked this recently before and got no answers, but this is the place: Does anyone remember that article from a couple of years or so ago which analysed the homepages of the mid/late 90's and compared them to the Myspace and Facebook pages of today? Would love to read that one again if anyone knows where to find it... Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 i thought this was going to be about those things that stick to women's nipples. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide QBLA's signature Hide all signatures BONDING TAPES JOYFUL UNION CASSETTE BLOG ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 angelfire still exists! Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide GORDO's signature Hide all signatures ZOMG! Lazerz pew pew pew!!!!11!!1!!!!1!oneone!shift+one!~!!! Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomeperson Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Best use of comic sans font, end of an era. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1024920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 ...as if millions of dancing baby suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide Bob Dylan's signature Hide all signatures *** This announcement is brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez Corporation *** helping America into the New World... Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/45065-rip-geo-cities/#findComment-1025091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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