GeoCities will close later this year
Shocking!! YAHOO is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for its member, which it acquired for $US 4.6 billion in 1999. According to a post at YAHOO Help page, new accounts are no longer being accepted for GeoCities.
“GeoCities, known for its gaudy design, was a cutting edge service in the late 1990s that was later overtaken by blogs and social networking sites like MySpace. After buying GeoCities, Yahoo failed to make significant upgrades to the site, although it still had 12 million unique visitors in March, according to comScore”, SFGates.com said. In recent months, the Sunnyvale Internet company has dropped several products, including the FareChase travel search engine and the Briefcase online storage service, as new CEO Carol Bartz tries to engineer a turnaround amid slumping profits.
Later this year YAHOO will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites this summer. If you are a member of GeoCities customers, you can continue to enjoy their sites and GeoCities services until later this year. You don’t need to change a thing right now — YAHOO will let you know about the closure as soon as possible and more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and YAHOO will update the help center with more details at that time.
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April 28th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Wow! Yahoo! is surely in trouble. It’s so sad to see GeoCities go as it is one of the most popular “thing” in the Interwebs back when I started getting my feet wet in the World Wide Web.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
It’s definitely shocking, I still remember my first personal homepage was built in 5 years ago and was using geocities as free hosting service. I believe many of the newbie web designer will also same, geocities is they first “tool” use as to test they website. It’s sadly to see geocities is closing soon.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Like so many other people, I had my first public homepage on Geocities, soon I also tried AngelFire and Tripod among others but I continued to use Geocities until 2002. It’s sad to see a pioneer in the area of personal websites go, they had to make way for blogs and social networking sites sooner or later.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:18 am
My first website was on Geocities back in 2001 andI feel a bit sad that it’s gone, especially since many of the personal websites are still worth visiting. I think they would have got a good deal if they would have tried to sell all of them to some third-party entrepreneur?
May 10th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Saya pernah coba pakai yahoo tetapi tidak begitu tertarik. tetap senang pakai blogger.com
May 11th, 2009 at 2:29 am
Sadly, the same comment can be made about many of the acquistions made by Yahoo – they seem to have a bad habit of buying up sites/services then leaving them as they are, then closing them down! Pretty poor business model, no wonder Yahoo is struggling!
May 12th, 2009 at 1:26 am
There could be a lot of free content for unscrupulous black hatters to scrape up there.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Wow. It really was the internet bubble back then. It’s amazing that they bought Geocities and never really upgraded or integrated the service.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Wauw… Thats a lot of money. GeoCities sucked imo – It was a war on commercials and content on the websites they hosted.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:44 am
I know alot of people had a geocities website at one time or another. The problemn is they where trying to sell hosting to them and no one wanted to pay what they asked for it. Yahoo tried making money with ads on every website but site got very slow and most people stoped using them.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I just feel sad beginilah kalau pakai layanan gratis
untung Blogger aman aman aja… mukinkah dalam kondisi yang sama Blogger di tutup
Semoga layanan gratis lainya tidak di tutup
June 6th, 2009 at 6:47 am
To echo the previous comments, it is a real shame to see Geocities go. When I first started working in an internet business I remember the search engine rankings (altavista back then) being full of geocities pages.
In many ways they were the early pioneers of what we’d call web 2.0 now, sadly they got left behind years ago.
June 14th, 2009 at 10:16 am
wah, bad news…I think this applicaton, useful from me…I hope, This only issue
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:39 am
It’s so sad, I remember them well from a long long time ago. It’s a little like Amstrad stopping makings PC’s (my first pc was an Amstrad 1640)
They deserve their places in the internet history books.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:15 pm