Goodbye to Geocities, Yahoo moves on to Paid Webhosting
Geocities is probably one of the oldest free webhostings still alive (and kicking). At least, for a few more months. Yahoo has decided to stop the service at about the las quarter of 2009.
Years ago, when the 2000 Internet Bubble was gaining size, Yahoo bid and bought Geocities in a historic deal (2.9 billion USD). The apparent advantages of having such a store of personal pages must surely have been the same reasons behind the pre-Web 2.0 Internet Business Explosion. And as it happened to the over-sized budgets and stock shares, Geocities did not work the way expected in financial terms.
Now, if you try to open a new Geocities account, a very visible banner will warn you of the impossibility to do so. What is more, the main reason could not be more precise: the ad beside is appealing the visitor to purchase a Webhosting account at Yahoo.
Although i used to have one of such personal pages, i wouldn’t say that it is a pity to lose them (for good). Geocities is the storage of maybe the ugliest pages of the whole Internet, so much that there is even a contest based on finding the worst Geocities page.
R.I.P. Geocities
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