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GeoCities (1995-2009) is finally put out of our misery
To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi: we felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
So, let's take a moment to remember GeoCities. The easy website-creation service opened in 1995, and many Internet users set up their first homepages within its quirky "neighborhoods". Back before everyone had a .com, GeoCities sported long, convoluted URLs with directories like SiliconValley/Pines or SunsetStrip/Towers. In 1999, GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo!, and has been a Yahoo! property ever since.
Although GeoCities sites are all disappearing from Yahoo!'s servers today, you can still take a trip down memory lane. Archive.org has started a Special Collection to catalog the sites. The effort was supported by Archive Team and includes a collection of those ever-present "Under Construction" GIFs from the heydey of GeoCities.
Popular geek-centric webcomic XKCD paid its own tribute to GeoCities today, reskinning the site to look like a stereotypical homepage, circa 1996.
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lolMYNEWAIMSNlol said 1:23PM on 10-26-2009
DEATH TO GEOCITIES! LONG LIVE ANGELFIRE!
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Dennis Marks said 1:48PM on 10-26-2009
Too bad we were not told sooner. If the archive was done recenty many pages, such as mine, will be lost since they were deleted months ago. I had no reason to leave them there after I moved.
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