GeoCities is closing.

by Scott Ames

Posted: 17 years ago 21 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Yahoo is closing GeoCities...

"On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files. "

The once King of the internet is slowly disappearing.

#closing #geocities

Dan C. Rinnert 17 years ago

They've been closing. They announced it a few months back, but didn't announce a specific date when the site would be completely down.

It took quite a few people by surprise. Most of them had no idea GeoCities was even still around.
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- Scott Ames 17 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert
  
  It took quite a few people by surprise. Most of them had no idea GeoCities was even still around.
  
  Ha True!! It seems only the porn spammers knew about it.
  
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SullyUI

17 years ago

Wow, I remember when they were the easiest way to make a website...man that seems so long ago. Agh, I'm getting old

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Webtigerz Banned 17 years ago

I have never looked at them...
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Scott Ames

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Sully Chaudry

Wow, I remember when they were the easiest way to make a website...man that seems so long ago. Agh, I'm getting old

I guess we all are getting old. I'm a bit surprised they didn't turn it around or spiff it up. Heck we have Squidoo that is doing great. Couldn't Yahoo have changed GeoCities to make it viable?

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SullyUI

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

I guess we all are getting old. I'm a bit surprised they didn't turn it around or spiff it up. Heck we have Squidoo that is doing great. Couldn't Yahoo have changed GeoCities to make it viable?

Squidoo is doing well and it will still be doing well after the recent change in terms. A lot of spammers will be weeded out again from using the site.

There's a good chance that it might actually go up in traffic to from having better content and high Google quality ratings too.

I'm all for them tightening up on their regulation, there was still way too much spam on Squidoo even after the Google slap, and there's still too many people promoting cheap and crappy products.

I think the business viability has a lot to do with having a good revenue potential. I mean Squidoo's business model is pretty genius. They have lots of quality content and they make sure to get their share of affliate income from traffic (50%) while also providing another content resource for all types of people.

Not to mention that they make building a lens incredibly easy and intuitive. It's really hard to make a lens look ugly and it's really easy to make a crappy Geocities site.

So, it's a winning combination. Maybe if they would have made site building a little easier like weebly, or had a more intuitive interface. I don't know, I don't think I've made a Geocities site in over 10 years.

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nick1123 17 years ago

I made my first website in '97 on GeoCities. It was a crappy site for sure.
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steve883 17 years ago

I wonder how many Geocities websites will disappear from the internet?
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InternetM39482 17 years ago

Hey, I remember GeoCities from my first website I made which had a single page and was full of ads hehe.

Sad to see it's closing.
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- Tonytsports 17 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Swastik
  
  Hey, I remember GeoCities from my first website I made which had a single page and was full of ads hehe.
  
  Sad to see it's closing.
  
  I had one too.
  
  Too many ads destroyed this business model.
  
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marmo 17 years ago

I kinda always thought geo citys sucked to be honest , I mean dont get me wrong I am no great web designer but even my skills then could best a geo city page and they often had load time issues and missing pages ect. They sucked and I wont miss them. Just my opinion on them. And yes I am old enough to remember them 1st coming around.
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Jon Alexander 17 years ago

RIP, G O C
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derrick_abram 17 years ago

I remember my first site with them back in the late 90's. I wonder if they prune inactive accounts after a specific time... would be interesting to see if I can remember my old account details to see if its still in there somewhere!
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EdmundDantes 17 years ago

RIP GeoCities. I hardly knew you.
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regems 17 years ago

Been a long time since I've come across one of their pages. They were so dominant ten years ago.
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Cash37 17 years ago

Ahhh I have old files there
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- Alan Petersen 17 years ago
  
  First AOL hometown now Geocities. Those were the first sites I had up back in the late 90's. I just checked and Tripod is still around.
  
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twang 17 years ago

Wow! That's really sad to hear. I first learned web development on GeoCities.
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- abo28 17 years ago
  
  (Almost) nothing is eternal on the Net.
  
  Somebody said that one year on the Internet is approximatedly the equivalent of three years offline (i. e. changes and movements are much faster online). If this is true, we can say that Geocities was in business for 30 years, more or less. Very good... :-)
  
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Keith_Purkiss 17 years ago

I had a site on there in the 90s too. I'd completely forgotten about them.
I had a lot on Tripod too, but was thrown off for using them to host pictures for my own websites ages ago.
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mmacken 17 years ago

I was only talking about Geocities with someone offline the other day. Shame to hear it will be closing down, started using Geocities in around 2000.
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