Yahoo GeoCities Closing Down

Published by djmick on October 23rd, 2009

Yahoo GeoCities

It’s the end of an era as Yahoo announces it’s closing down its GeoCities service this Monday, October 26.

Launched back in 1995, Geocities offered surfers a space to set up their own personalised web space.

Having initially backed Geocities with considerable investment, Yahoo decided to buy the service in 1999 for $3.57bn.

However, Yahoo feels that the time is right to close down Geocities as it has other alternative services offering similar functions.

“Beginning on 26 October 2009, you will no longer be able to use GeoCities to maintain a free presence online – but we’re excited about the other services we have designed to help you connect with friends and family and share your activities and interests,” Yahoo said in a statement.

Like so many things Yahoo, the company failed to see the potential in what they were sitting on and failed to move with the times as the competition provided applications and the simple to use tools people wanted.

I never owned a GeoCities space but back in the late 1990’s, and even into early 2000’s, so many sites you came across were hosted there – all decidedly sore on the eyes may I add.

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