End of an era with the end of Geocities.

**griffin** · 7th May 2009, 01:35 PM

For those of us who have been online since the mid 90s, witnessing the birth and fad of Geocities websites (free websites for newbies to the web), Yahoo (who now own Geocities) is apparently closing them down later this year, as the focus has shifted to more advanced free website formats like facebook, myspace and other blogs.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/24/geocities_bye/

**jaydisc** · 7th May 2009, 01:53 PM

Good riddance.

**i_amtrunks** · 7th May 2009, 01:59 PM

Ah geocities, the annoying "must ahve site" before myspace.

Always thought myspace was a poor mans Geocities...

**kup** · 7th May 2009, 02:01 PM

I use my geocities account for pic storage and a hotlink source. Not fair!

**Burn** · 7th May 2009, 07:02 PM

It's kinda sad really, Geocities was one of the first and definitely one of the better ones.

But the really sad part is the trend towards sites like MySpace and Facebook, while I use them, they're just lack that real personal touch that creating your own site at a place like Geocities gave you.

**Lint** · 7th May 2009, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by Burn

It's kinda sad really, Geocities was one of the first and definitely one of the better ones.

But the really sad part is the trend towards sites like MySpace and Facebook, while I use them, they're just lack that real personal touch that creating your own site at a place like Geocities gave you.

Agreed. The exciting frontier days are well and truly done. Onward with the bland convenience of commercial.

**Robzy** · 7th May 2009, 09:19 PM

Nothing lasts forever I spose! I had my very first website at Geocities.

**SGB** · 8th May 2009, 01:52 AM

Originally Posted by Robzy

I had my very first website at Geocities.

Same here, lol.

**Paulbot** · 8th May 2009, 07:42 AM

I used Tripod but long since moved on to Livejournal, Blogger and Wordpress. My Tripod space is still out there but i wonder for how long now if GeoCities is closed?

**jaydisc** · 8th May 2009, 08:45 AM

As Paul has ratified, I think it's more the rise of the Content Management System (aka blog software), and not Facebook/MySpace (although MySpace is considerably more CMSy than FB) that has signaled the demise of Geocities. Back in the day, if you wanted a web page, you had to hack it out in HTML and then FTP it somewhere.

Nowadays, anyone who still hacks it out knows exactly how sh1tty Geocities is.

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