Geocities closes its doors

Geocities might not be a name that is talked about with raves right now, but if you’ve been around about 10-15 years ago, Geocities was big! It was the biggest free hosting and page design website around. Sure, there were others too, but if you had a Geocities page in your signature, it showed you knew something, you could code and set up a website. You had a reputation. During those times, being ‘on the net’ ment having a website set up. Web2 was nowhere in sight, at least not with the presence it has now.

I remember the good old days when we were all gathering on forums to discuss our Geocities sites and how to get around the free popups. With the increased cheap hostings (anything up to $10 a month) with great customer service and extras that you don’t know what to do with, sadly free hosting like Geocities lost its momentum from year to year. So much that in fact Yahoo (who aquired Geocities back in 1999) closed the door to this relic of the good old days. Yahoo will completely shut down Geocities later on this year, so the existing users have a bit of time to move their pages someplace else.

I guess soon the following line, or a variation of it, will be added to the long list of ‘you’re an internet old timer if’…you still remember Geocities AND you’ve even had a page or two on it AND you had your Geocities signature in all the forums you posted, wearing it proudly… Ah nostalgia for the good old days…