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GeoCities Shuts Down: The End of an Era

by Jordan Yerman | October 26, 2009 at 01:06 pm

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Geocities has shut down. Geocities users with pro accounts have been migrated to Yahoo's other web hosting services, but those in the web equivalent of steerage are going down with the ship. In its heyday, though Geocities was a real rock star. The Geocities drag-and-drop user interface was far ahead of its time, and Yahoo bought it ten years ago for $2.9 billion. Check out Yahoo! Mail to see Geocities technology redeployed.

Goodbye, Geocities... goodbye.

But in the end, I slowly drifted away from my Geocities site. Ironically, I never thought a career in writing was for me. I moved on with my life. And, much like GeoCities, my small part of the Web was left to live out its final days alone, without much interaction.

Even so, that small site was my first foray into the online world. And although I would have liked to spend more time refining my GameSpot-wannabe, I have no regrets. It was fun while it lasted.

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jazzyzazzy

at 18:00 on October 26th, 2009

seems fair enough,out with the old and in with the new,only.............wish they would give us a chance to catch up on all this tech stuff.The new things come and go like hot cakes.Great for Tech heads,but pure torture for those of us not technically quick on the uptake.

dysamoria

at 20:13 on October 26th, 2009

that's the company that resurrected my GeoCities account, after i'd deleted it purposefully, when they bought GeoCities to become part of Yahoo... they resurrected lots of deleted accounts to raise the perceived value. Of course i could not get it re-deleted. i was still able to edit it, strangely. So i made a NASTY MOCKERY of Yahoo's (at the time) home page for Yahoo GeoCities. it took over a year for them to take it down.