I made my first website in GeoCities. I was very excited :). In recent few months specially after Yahoo Microsoft search deal, Yahoo is consolidating their services and focus area. They already closed few other services like Yahoo 360 and started few new services like OMG, Zimbra and Meme (service similar to twitter). I always like yahoo and would like them to comeback into main stream like they were before 5-6 years back.
Ricardo Nunez
· 2 months ago
Man I feel so old, I didn't know that geocities still exist.
barringtonarch
· 2 months ago
what's yahoo going to doo?
Sir Loin
· 2 months ago
Indeed the end of an era, there was a certain charm to those sites back then, despite the blinking & marquee text, and "Sign my Guestbook!" pleas. Wish I could have grabbed my stuff off of Xoom when they went down :(
ConnorJack
· 2 months ago
GeoCities was where I first broke out into the web... first site was on there... =(
Name
· 2 months ago
Shame. I had my first website there. I remember the funky names we used to be able to get.
Ah, the memories...I think I built my first site there in like 1994! It was a lame site to say the least, but it still holds a special place in my heart, haha.
Ralph
· 2 months ago
Wow ... I didn't know it was still around. I also remember using a site called nettaxi.com that was big around the same time as geocities. So, where are the geocities users going? www.ning.com, www.tabup.com, yahoo hosting services as suggested?
baratas
· 2 months ago
I made many computer labs on Geocities. Many would continue to learn. We are sad! Health and peace!
baratas
· 2 months ago
I made many computer labs on Geocities. Many would continue to learn. We are sad! Health and peace!
blairashley
· 2 months ago
Wow... My first GeoCities website was created when I was 14 and it was a USA Today "hotsite"... if anyone remembers that. :) I also remember the chat rooms... My alias was "Vanilla". Hahah... to be a teen again!
Amy
· 2 months ago
How would I go about tracking down my old Geocities account, if the email address I used back in the day is loooong gone...?
Jimmy Kupczak
· 2 months ago
I never had a GeoCities site. Growing up I used Angelfire and then Tripod later on.
Ah the memories.
nerdalert
· 2 months ago
shame, I think www.lolblog.eu stared with one of these sites from an ex Manager from Lycos and sevenload
nerdalert
· 2 months ago
shame, www.lolblog.eu was started with an old geocities account by an ex lycos Manager
Adelaide DJ
· 2 months ago
it does bring back some memories twitter(at)locspoc
thechilibuddy
· 2 months ago
It's my birthday today - plus this. Tells me I'm old!
oh no..!! what will happen with my site on geocities??
dudex
· 2 months ago
Good ridens.
gabrielnkuna
· 2 months ago
This is living proof that web2 is taking over from web1 as consumer driven sites. I am the founder of Geocities competitor called iFlaker, www.iflaker.com, where you build your website right on the browser. You don’t even have to sign-up to start tweaking your website. The browser is also intelligent to remembers all your changes the next time you come back if you left without sign-up. When you finally decide to sign-up (For FREE), www.iflaker.com provides you with a friendly web address such as www.iflaker.com/zcf
vavou
· 2 months ago
this news makes me feel SO old...
Andrew
· 2 months ago
Back when I was in middle school all my friends were making their first website on GeoCities. So, naturally, I used AngelFire instead.
erikkerr
· 2 months ago
awww. my very first ever couple (granted free and full of ads) of websites were with these guys. so cheesy, yet...very...very nostalgic. really could care less now but just seeing this article definitely brought back some memories of excitement over cheesy buttons and stuff that i thought looked awesome at the time. we all know how hindsight 20/20 goes. haha.
Grant Robertson
· 2 months ago
Hey Twitter, are you so sure about that 1 billion dollar valuation? I had totally forgotten Yahoo paid such a dear price. Of course, at that time, Yahoo's stock was also exorbitantly priced, so I guess it comes out in the wash. I'm reminded of what Douglas Adams wrote:
"This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
Christian
· 2 months ago
Memories of a forgone era-- the web today is a different beast.
sLiNky
· 2 months ago
wow, i also started my web design career and passion on Geocities back in like 1996/97. I WISH i could access all my old designs and LMAO over how bad i was back then. My pages were somewhere in a section called CollegePark.
madscribbler
· 1 month ago
Oh I just recorded my train journeys at in.geocities. It was fun. I feel for losing the fun.
I had a Geocities page at one time and I was even a neighborhood moderator at one time. I wish they would come up with another service of some sort of method to import these pages into other sites so they will not be lost.
ivie
· 1 month ago
wow... read this article make my memory back to my youth. It was the time I know internet and starting my own website in GeoCities. geocities made me learn html...
My old geocities site is still up. I have redirrected to my new site location because there are still several links out there that link to it... wonder why they have not shut it down yet.
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Fond memories!!
http://private-realtors.info
Health and peace!
Health and peace!
Ah the memories.
http://www.seodoom.info/2009/09/start-your-seo-...
"This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
it is indeed an end of an era.
My old geocities site is still up. I have redirrected to my new site location because there are still several links out there that link to it... wonder why they have not shut it down yet.
My new site is http://ithascome.bravehost.com