Topic: Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26

[mmorris]

 Founded in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, what is now Yahoo GeoCities was one of the first services to offer an easy way for early Internet surfers to publish their own Web pages. Once the Internet's third most visited domain, it will be shutting down on Monday, Oct. 26.


Here is the link location of the story as I just copied the headline probably the full story can be found at link below.

http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/tech_news/popular/~3/GqKnn6jFOwg/Yahoo_GeoCities_closes_on_Oct_26

[WeatherHost]

Digg is about as useless as Twitter and it's Twitts, but this is hardly a new story:

So Long, GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed

JR Raphael, PC World

Apr 23, 2009 4:41 pm

GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old.

GeoCities had suffered a long and drawn-out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has yet to be determined.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/163765/so_long_geocities_we_forgot_you_still_existed.html

April 23, 2009 1:37 PM PDT
Now closing: GeoCities, a relic of Web's early days
by Stephen Shankland

Yahoo is closing its GeoCities personal home page service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the Web that's largely been replaced by social networks and blogs.

http://news.cnet.com/now-closing-geocities-a-relic-of-webs-early-days/


A more recent article: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/25/geocities-closes-forever


From Yahoo's Help Pages:  http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/

[mmorris]

Digg is about as useless as Twitter and it's Twitts, but this is hardly a new story:

So Long, GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed

JR Raphael, PC World

Apr 23, 2009 4:41 pm

GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old.

GeoCities had suffered a long and drawn-out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has yet to be determined.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/163765/so_long_geocities_we_forgot_you_still_existed.html

April 23, 2009 1:37 PM PDT
Now closing: GeoCities, a relic of Web's early days
by Stephen Shankland

Yahoo is closing its GeoCities personal home page service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the Web that's largely been replaced by social networks and blogs.

http://news.cnet.com/now-closing-geocities-a-relic-of-webs-early-days/


A more recent article: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/25/geocities-closes-forever


From Yahoo's Help Pages:  http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/

Well thanks for that info above if you would of posted it a long time ago then I could of saved the bandwidth to the forum.
 O by the way do you mind posting all the things you don't like about the Web because your list seem to be growing ( personally I think that you need to go to the web sites you don't like and tell them as I don't care what you like or dislike about the web )  

[Mark / Ohio]

I got a couple emails from Yahoo GeoCities about it.  That was the first place (through my ISP) I had a web page setup and started to learn HTML even before I bought the Davis VP around 2002.  I had NOAA radars and some other free images that were available at the time from different companies provided you linked back to them.  I'd only had a redirect link setup there for the last 6 years or so.  After getting the VP I went with Host Department free for a year, then to Tripod for several more years then finally where I'm at now at E-Rice.  Host Department was a real joke, Tripod reliable but non existent support if you needed it and no PHP.  E-Rice has been real good for a cheap spot to squat.  

[Cienega32]

I forgot all about GeoCities - I thought they already met their demise a while back! Sorry to hear they're gone. Oh well... Time moves us on. Time to upgrade my Mosaic, I guess...


I never could get Twitter. It kind of reminds me of using a cell phone in a public bathroom stall but I guess it must have some merit to some. I guess I'm just too far over the hill as I don't really get all this constant texting on a phone either. People buy phones so they can type in their conversation. Kooky, man... just kooky. 

[mackbig]

sounds like my history, first site on geocities (free premium with my ISP), went to Tripod after vws did not play nice with geocities (actually ended up getting errors using 3rd party ftps also), tripod was good, but made the leap to godaddy, when I wanted to enter the php world.

my geocities site is still working (for now). just a splash and redirect.

http://ca.geocities.com/mackweb@rogers.com/

Andrew

I got a couple emails from Yahoo GeoCities about it.  That was the first place (through my ISP) I had a web page setup and started to learn HTML even before I bought the Davis VP around 2002.  I had NOAA radars and some other free images that were available at the time from different companies provided you linked back to them.  I'd only had a redirect link setup there for the last 6 years or so.  After getting the VP I went with Host Department free for a year, then to Tripod for several more years then finally where I'm at now at E-Rice.  Host Department was a real joke, Tripod reliable but non existent support if you needed it and no PHP.  E-Rice has been real good for a cheap spot to squat.  

[WeatherHost]

There were a few of these freebie sites; Fortune City (?), TriPod/Lycos, AngelFire, Terrashare, Freehomepages, I can't remember them all.

I think they've all crashed and burned haven't they?

[Garth Bock]

Geocites is gone ???? Dang !!! I need to dial up Compuserve and Delphi on my acoustic coupled modem and check my accounts...

[SLOweather]

Geocites is gone ???? Dang !!! I need to dial up Compuserve and Delphi on my acoustic coupled modem and check my accounts...

Compuserve is gone, too...

[SLOweather]

I never could get Twitter. It kind of reminds me of using a cell phone in a public bathroom stall but I guess it must have some merit to some. I guess I'm just too far over the hill as I don't really get all this constant texting on a phone either. People buy phones so they can type in their conversation. Kooky, man... just kooky. 

I didn't "get" twitter either until I was introduced to this feed:

http://tinyurl.com/npbhwv (URL obfuscated due to scatological word in it)

WARNING: Adult language and themes, and very funny... The guy simply posts things his dad utters. There's a lot of wisdom in amongst the humor. In the month or so we've been reading it at work, he's rocketed up to 625,000 followers, and that doesn't count people like me that read him on the website.

[sam2004gp]

I never could get Twitter. It kind of reminds me of using a cell phone in a public bathroom stall but I guess it must have some merit to some. I guess I'm just too far over the hill as I don't really get all this constant texting on a phone either. People buy phones so they can type in their conversation. Kooky, man... just kooky. 

I didn't "get" twitter either until I was introduced to this feed:

http://tinyurl.com/npbhwv (URL obfuscated due to scatological word in it)

WARNING: Adult language and themes, and very funny... The guy simply posts things his dad utters. There's a lot of wisdom in amongst the humor. In the month or so we've been reading it at work, he's rocketed up to 625,000 followers, and that doesn't count people like me that read him on the website.

That was funny, I am now following him as well.

[Bushman]

OH NO!  My kid has been posting everything I say!  I wondered WT* he was doing on the PC so much.  LOL - there is some really funny stuff - esp. the Dad to Son parts.  ROFL.  I've subscribed for that reason alone.

[Garth Bock]

Geocites is gone ???? Dang !!! I need to dial up Compuserve and Delphi on my acoustic coupled modem and check my accounts...

Compuserve is gone, too...

Say it isnt so !!!!!

[Cienega32]

I didn't "get" twitter either until I was introduced to this feed:

I'm on board with that type of stuff - that's some funny stuff. I thought it was just a bunch of mindless people uttering mindless thoughts with a bunch of other mindless people hanging on every word. This guy uses it with good purpose!

"The dog is an outside dog. You want an inside dog, you go get your own inside."


But I still don't get making a call and texting everything...