Goodbye Geocities
 

So long my old friend from 1995

http://geocities.yahoo.com/

Indeed. Was long over due in my opinion. It had it's day, was huge.

Noooooooooooo! Where will I store my flaming skull .gifs now!?!?

how about terra.es?

That's where I made my first porn site :(

May you rest in peace, dear Geocities.

Old school memories of TGP galleries hosted on terra.es to get around high hosting costs back in the day

I preferred angelfire :)

Congrats to the REAL WINNER: Dudes who sold Geocities to Yahoo for $3.65 BILLION in stock plus $1 BILLION in OPTIONS. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-220817.html

LOLz

Just makes you realize never to trust anything free to be around

remember all those free dial up accounts too that everyone figured advertising would pay for everything?

So they haven't found the way to monetize it? Looks like our joke of an industry is not the only one lacking good fresh ideas.

I may understand their reasoning, but still - just go ahead and shut down an Alexa top 100 site... must feel a lot of pain.

R.I.P Geocities :(

think of all those old geocities sites that are sitting high in the google serps too, will be gone overnight with no way to salvage them

I never really used geocities. I put together my first site with Tripod. They seem to still be around in some form.

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It's where I got my start online. What a sad day.

started out with angelfire but moved to geocities..

so sad I learned html with geocities with my first site.. lol a Star Wars fan page that got 10 hits a week and I thought that was the shit in 1998 :1orglaugh

^ indeed

actually, people will get the option to sign up for 5.95 hosting a month or whatever to keep their current pages afaik

aww you will be missed geocities :)

back where I had my first website as well. Mainstream website at that

Adiós, geocities...

You know, I don't think they "ripped yahoo off".
I think yahoo took something valuable and wasted it.

The first mistake was not really putting geocities into the search results hardcore.
I mean, WTF! You have a search engine and you don't bring up webpages with
your own advertising on it in the top results?????? :1orglaugh

Holy balls! :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh wow that is really old

They will be missed
 

R.I.P
made a lot of sites on them

Had my first site there, 1997 I think it was..living in Amsterdam...... working for the Magick Shop with Oz

so I had Intershrooms.com :pimp

Thought I would make big $$$, and the cover of NewsWeek ...nope didn't happen just a few sales here and there...Took Newsweek 4 years to catch on...by then I was somewhere else...

I wish I had discovered porn at that time...:2 cents:

I have a site up on Geocities. I couldn't access it any more, but it still sent out traffic to a program and I got money from it every month. Bummer.

You failed with a free tube script you're hardly one to talk.

haha something made me think of them the other day

I will add sexshare

You failed as a sig whore. :2 cents:

fsn.net.... 8-P

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posting dumb shit in biz threads is not funny, fucking idiot

thats sucks. i have a site i made in 98 still there and still getting a decent amount of traffic.

If you have a problem with me lets get together and solve it the right way, dont be doing keyboard warrior shit on me

Me too.....Back when I first started, I had my main domain forwarded to geocities....Then some bitch reported me and forced me to get a real host....

Good times.

thanks for the mamories geocities.com

Damn made myself nice $$$$ back in the day of Sexshare :thumbsup

yahoo also bought broadcast.com from mark cuban, another bonehead move.

Right before the dot com crash. They've made so many bad decisions. And ten years later, they're still making bad decisions. For example, not selling their company to Microsoft. No wonder their company is failing.

my first site was hosted in geocities
R.I.P Geocities

so they are not really closing geocities? just charging for it now?

what he said. angelfire ftw!

End of an era. Yeah, I had my first site on geocities too.

geoshities :)

I used to shotgun two netzero accounts for 112K baud.

Talk about blazing!

yeah, me too. angelfire ftw!

I wonder, is this thing really that costly they need to drop it? With the bandwidth dirt cheap nowadays and the storage too, and the majority of content being simple static html pages, how much to they spend to support geocities?

I mean, I can understand google having problems with youtube, - that's a huge video site after all that hosts maybe half of worlds' online videos (but I still think the figure of their $500mil/year loss on youtube that is floating around is grossly overestimated) - but geocities? They're mostly html pages with a few pics if any, plus a long tail of old sites that still get traffic which is worth gold with contextual advertising while being almost free to run. Why would they drop it, I just don't get it... Or do I miss something?

Oh and they have their own advertising platform, why not to just plaster it everywhere and let people get checks for the ads displayed on their sites? Sorta sponsor free host model used in our business which is insanely profitable even with traffic heavy apps, which is not the case here. I'm sure nobody would bitch after the contextual ads panel was added to their site, if offered to get checks for it.