The indiscriminate use frames, annoying animated gifs, embedded midi files and seizure inducing blink tags were all the rage when GeoCities was the spot on the Internet some 10 years ago. Providing users with a free lot in one of their many virtual cities, GeoCities kick started the idea of owning your own website as being cool. Sure, a vast majority of the designs elements in GeoCities webpages were gut-wrenchingly horrendous, (then again, a quick visit to MySpace shows that not much has changed) but bad design habits alone weren't enough to deter Internet big wigs, Yahoo!, from shelling out $3.56 billion in stocks and $1 billion in options in 1999 a take over bid.
I have many fond memories of GeoCities, as I'm sure most of you do too. I set up my first "website" there during high school, and it's a little sad to see them finally closing their gates for good even though GeoCities still pulls a reported 11.5 million unique visitors a year.
Oh well... Au revoir GeoCities and thanks for introducing me to HTML coding!
Automatically, ASTROUNIMAS, JeopardiseScript website and other numerous websites on geocities will be just memories.Yahoo tosses $4 billion down the loo
Yahoo has pulled the plug on GeoCities, the free service that hosts personal home pages for punters after ten years of operation.
The search engine outfit splashed out more than $4 billion for GeoCities more than a decade ago. Those were in the days of the dotcom boom when people were writing cheques for ideas that were just plain silly.
According to a posting on a Yahoo Help page for GeoCities the service was no longer accepting new customers and that it will be closing later this year, with more details about how individuals can save their data coming this summer.
Yahoo has been cutting its costs like a mad thing since Chief Executive Carol Bartz took the reins in January. Several products products have gone the way of the Dodo including Jumpcut, an online service for editing videos.
GeoCities was the social notworking site of its day with more than 3.5 million websites hosted on its service in the late 1990s. However it was dead end technology and has been largely replaced by the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
From: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13345&Itemid=1
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