Re: Geocities closing: End of an Era
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.