What Ever Happened to GeoCities?

[Amir Shoam]

GeoCities was more than a hosting service, offering community features and building tools, it could be seen as the forefather of social media. In 1999, the site was the third-most popular on the web.

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/article/2401-geocities/

 

[Geralt]

In 1999 my website started in Geocities. What a crap! But it was part of its history.

 

[bviktor]

Sooo it's just another site killed by Yahoo.

 

[Morphine Child]

My religion teacher in elementary school had a geocities website with flying glittery mother mary icons and floating crosses and some other weird stuff. He was totally not a weirdo.
Good times.

 

[BadThad]

I had a few different Geocities sites, fun times!

 

[defaultluser]

Sooo it's just another site killed by Yahoo.

No, Geocities had the historic honor of being the first Yahoo major purchase (and thus, the first to die)

 

[mgwerner]

The data transfer limit killed the pron sites, which is all I thought Geocities was for back then.....

 

[lazer]

Yahoo once was THE portal, it was THE place on the net, but today, even though it is still around it is not as desired nor as needed as once it was.

I remember they charged MONEY to rate your site. Google did away with that. TG!

 

[adamada72]

If I recall Geocities changed their terms of service with some language saying they owned the content you posted. After that it was a mad dash to leave the site for content creators.

 

[SixTymes]

If I recall Geocities changed their terms of service with some language saying they owned the content you posted. After that it was a mad dash to leave the site for content creators.

the artical above already mentioned that, in fact, that was a main point.

 

[digitechakshay]

Thank you for sharing this information about Geocities.

 

[punctualturn]

One thing that I do hate of the web is how little the "web" cares for its own history.

Archive.org WayBackMachine is awesome but many of the flash powered sites are simply gone.

Honestly, I would love to revisit my old MySpace page and laugh at it.

 

[cpnandani]

GeoCities was my entry point into HTML coding! Building a webpage from scratch felt like a huge achievement back then. It's intriguing how the internet has progressed from those basic personal sites to the dynamic, interconnected web we have now. Nostalgia hits hard reading about its rise and fall.