Thread: GeoCities has shut down for good.

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GeoCities is no more. Yahoo! shut it down. I remember using GeoCities in the 90's as a free host when I first started making web sites. Yahoo! has a paid hosting service which they are advertising to make up for the fact that GeoCities used to receive 10 million unique hits per month.

From the article: "MySpace isn't exactly at the peak of its popularity, but there are still tons of people who use it. What if they just pulled everything? What if Google bought Facebook and decided to kill it? What if your Tweets vanished? Sure these things seem unlikely now because these services are still fresh. Well, GeoCities was once the "it" thing too. Granted, most GeoCities sites I have seen are not much to look at now, but that doesn't mean people aren't getting use out of them. They're obviously getting page views."

Originally Posted by vectro

What if your Tweets vanished?

I wouldn't cry about it. :angelic:

I remember using it back in the day as well

It's about time it got shut down. The amount of crap that was on those sites was unbelievable. It was like the anti-christ to developers when I started learning properly.

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

It's about time it got shut down. The amount of crap that was on those sites was unbelievable. It was like the anti-christ to developers when I started learning properly.

I guess it won't be missed much. Come to think of it, I don't miss it at all.

Hi,

I never liked the layout wit the ads. Other places were better.

:flower:

Sami

I mostly tell people to use cheap hosting instead of free. cheap are decent services with full
ownership. now a days allot of freehosting offers in market. if you can launch website in $2-5 with decent services than why go for free. best way is to go to shopaserver and buy a suitable package for your self

I remember using it in uploading my website 4 years before.

Oh boy, GeoCities had its darkside of people using the free service to phish Yahoo accounts. That was way back in the day though.

I had my start back in the day with them

geo cities are not cool anymore ... how ever it still fairly popular in 3rd world countries like india.

I remember trying them out ~9 years ago, lol. Haven't seen much of them recently, hence I was half-expecting this.

What a shame...they were so much fun back in the day!