Even though the original Geocities was bought out by Yahoo it was sad but the idea was still ongoing.
I just got this email from Yahoo and the days of the yesteryears flashed by.
Here’s the email I received:
"Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer,
We’re writing to let you know that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009.
On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.
Don’t Wait
Please be aware that after October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable. If you’d like to save your files, you must download them now or move to Yahoo! Web Hosting. If you need assistance, please visit the help center.
We want to thank you for being a GeoCities customer, and hope you continue to enjoy our other Yahoo! services.
Best regards,
The Yahoo! GeoCities team "
Ofcourse they ask that you get an account with them (paid) and move your files there. Or they give you directions to download the files to your computer for use on other webspace.
I think I must've created over a dozen sites over there. With the BLINK tag and those funky animated gif's. What a time that was. That was when HTML was being designed, information was not as easy to come by on the internet as it is now. And at that time Geocities came about with all the tools FOR FREE (ever heard that before?) to help people get a web presence. What a thought!!
my first website was on Beverly Hills Internet (BHI) .. then Geopages.. then geocities... in.. 1996 ..i think.. but then yahoo brought the company and .. ...
those were the days... wow.. its been long time i never check my first web.. probably 10 years.. great memories...
aah - 1996 and countless hours spent in the library and lab working on my first website... learning HTML, and creating funky banners and backgrounds.
I remember having spent a lot of time in deciding which "neighborhood" my website belonged to... I think that's what they were called at the time. Also loved the first guest-book I made using CGI scripting.
I think it was Yahoo! that brought about the downfall of Geocities. Their early policies made many members abandon the service (including myself), and later, their advertising tactics negatively affected the end-user's online experience.
I just checked it up on the geocities site. I went with paid hosting quite a while ago. Yet it's still sort of sad to see geocities going down. I still have a site or two hosted there, that I haven't updated in about 4 years. Maybe I will back up those sites.
Tripod, Fateback, Anglefire and Lycos still offer free hosting.
Even now there are probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions of sites on geocities. A lot of people are not going to remake or move and might just let them go away.
