Yahoo! closes GeoCities service
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:25 pmReposting part of lost thread, as the closure is nearing:
BenoitRen, Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:50 pm wrote:As some of you may already know, Yahoo! is closing its GeoCities service. This isn't exactly news, but the date of the actual closure wasn't known yet.
I've received an e-mail message with the date: 26 October 2009.
It's pretty insignificant today, but back in the nineties, GeoCities was important. It meant that anyone could create a web page and upload it onto the World Wide Web for all to see. Many web pages were created this way. Some were useless. Some were silly. Others were useful resources of knowledge on a certain topic.
So, in effect, it's a piece of web history that is being shut down here.
We will miss you, GeoCities.
Mono, Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:57 pm wrote:Xoon>Geocities :^P
I saw someone using a zzn e-mail account the other day. Talk about nostalgia :^P
thriwren, Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:45 pm wrote:I remember Geocities used to be like a town and stuff, that was beore yahoo bought it.