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GeoCities is no more – from hero to zero in a decade

In 1999, when the Web was still merely a small part of some people’s lives rather than the behemoth it is today, GeoCities was the third most-visited Web site on the Internet. Today, Oct. 26, 2009, it is being killed off forever, not just decommissioned and archived but actually deleted from the Web altogether. R.I.P. GeoCities – you will be fondly remembered.I cannot remember the date or even year when I first had the pleasure of venturing. Although, in those days it was more of a chore than a pleasure in many ways. But I do remember is that GeoCities was one of those sites everyone knew of. It was a Google, Yahoo!, or YouTube of its day.

It was actually founded in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet before morphing into GeoCities. It was one of the first Web sites that offered ordinary Web users the chance of a piece of the action. In essence it offered everyone some Web real estate and the tools needed to populate it. And people did so in their droves, creating Web sites and blogs (of a sort) fitting all genres and niches.

At the height of the site’s popularity, and slap-bang in the middle of the dot-com era, Yahoo paid a whopping $3.65 billion for the site which then became Yahoo GeoCities. Two years later and the bubble burst. And out of the ashes came free hosting sites, proper blogging platforms, and social networks galore. Which all meant GeoCities’ time in the sun was pretty much over.

In April, Yahoo announced it was closing the site altogether, with new accounts no longer accepted from then and a date set for the complete dissolution of the site. That date is today, and GeoCities is no longer with us.

Thankfully, the Archive Team’s Geocities Project has been beavering away trying to archive as much of the site as possible before this day came. And although GeoCities and its passing will likely mean little to the majority of today’s Web community, for those of us who used it back when it was all that was available this day is a truly sad one.

I’m now wondering how much the Web will change in the next decade and which sites that are currently household names will be put to death.

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Posted by Sana Iqbal on Oct 28th, 2009 and filed under Others Stuff, Technolgy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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