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Mas Dhani
Jul 25th 2009, 9:19 am
I get email from geocities about 26 Oktober 2009 yahoo geocities will closed. So you should move any files to your PC and other hosting. Do not wait until due date.. just do it now.

I don't understand what's happen with yahoo geocities.
bluemouse2
Jul 25th 2009, 9:31 am
Yes it is true. Probably it is not converting as it should and it has to be closed like other yahoo services recently.
Mas Dhani
Jul 25th 2009, 10:05 am
Yes it is true. Probably it is not converting as it should and it has to be closed like other yahoo services recently.

I hear from any source that something problem of yahoo corp. like fired more workers.. It does near bankrupt?
bluemouse2
Jul 25th 2009, 10:15 am
I guess it is all happening because of the world financial crisis. There will be hard times for Internet companies unfortunately.
dynashox
Jul 25th 2009, 10:27 am
Wow... Finally Geocities coming to an end. I still remember that my first website is built on Geocities back in year 2000.

- Dynashox -
Mas Dhani
Jul 25th 2009, 10:50 am
Wow... Finally Geocities coming to an end. I still remember that my first website is built on Geocities back in year 2000.

- Dynashox -

Nice memory..
bluemouse2
Jul 25th 2009, 10:52 am
Wow... Finally Geocities coming to an end. I still remember that my first website is built on Geocities back in year 2000.

- Dynashox -

It was back in time when the Internet was still young.... great memories!
Bohra
Jul 25th 2009, 12:52 pm
Well i think many people must be having so many useless geocities sites by now which they may not be using even so i guess it was time they took it down
Slincon
Jul 25th 2009, 1:09 pm
If you think 2000 was young, then 1995 was prehistoric. I remember using geocities, I don't remember whether it was my first site - in fact I'm pretty sure it wasn't. But back then they just had 1 ad up at the top. And the urls were based on neighbourhoods so you had to pick your community first. They were competing with AOL which had sites to but everyone was using keywords, so if you wanted to go to oprahs site instead of going oprah.com you'd enter oprah in the keyword box in aol.
bluemouse2
Jul 25th 2009, 1:14 pm
If you think 2000 was young, then 1995 was prehistoric. I remember using geocities, I don't remember whether it was my first site - in fact I'm pretty sure it wasn't. But back then they just had 1 ad up at the top. And the urls were based on neighbourhoods so you had to pick your community first. They were competing with AOL which had sites to but everyone was using keywords, so if you wanted to go to oprahs site instead of going oprah.com you'd enter oprah in the keyword box in aol.

I remember the urls based on neighborhoods!

"TelevisionCity" was one of them :D
MrHarper
Jul 25th 2009, 4:17 pm
They're doing it to save space on their servers. It's a clearup. There are some sites on there that haven't been updated since '95. They are also doing it so that those few active websites that still use Geocities will hopefully buy paid hosting, making them a nice amount of money.

It is unfortunate though. Once you get past the bad layouts, animated GIFs and spelling & grammar mistakes, there is a LOT of information on a wide variety of subjects, and I will certainly be backing up a few websites.
JanetBandivas
Jul 26th 2009, 5:48 pm
Well thanks for informing about that..
Now I knew about that.... I am not really ware on this...
nexx
Jul 27th 2009, 3:43 pm
lol I remember my first ever website on geocities, animated flashing banners ftw.
Luke Beale
Jul 27th 2009, 3:47 pm
I used them once.

I never thought that they would close it though.
.^.Eagle.^.
Jul 27th 2009, 4:52 pm
Good times on GeoCities, back when I was about 8 used to challenge my buddies to who can make the best website, ahh, I always won. Good memories. :D . Yahoo is one of the corporations closing down a lot of facilities and sections on their website as it costs too much money to run. GeoCities also took up a lot of space. Yahoo is falling! Catch it!
crysun2007
Jul 29th 2009, 2:23 am
what a pity this is a good service
jack74
Aug 1st 2009, 8:47 am
I had some free sites running at geocities which all are gone...
metros
Aug 2nd 2009, 9:53 pm
Still using GeoCities? Wow :)

Yahoo! Announced few months back (You can read every thing summ up with some extra opinions on TechCrunch) that they take GeoCities down.
marshalprince
Aug 2nd 2009, 10:29 pm
I never have used Geocites.
MrHarper
Aug 3rd 2009, 12:47 am
Still using GeoCities? Wow :)

Yahoo! Announced few months back (You can read every thing summ up with some extra opinions on TechCrunch) that they take GeoCities down.

OH MY GOD! I didn't know that... I mean, it's not as if it's the subject of this thread!
sugarlipz
Aug 4th 2009, 3:38 am
Kind of sad, end of an era. I DO still have a site there, but they can just take it down. I haven't updated it prolly since 2002. It was VERY popular until they put more intrusive ads. Yes, my first site was also there.
SportsFan0834
Aug 5th 2009, 12:19 am
That's so sad. Geocities was one of the first places I tried to create a web site. I use to spend hours just trying different HEX codes to see how font colors changed on there. Haha, good times right there.
james.alex
Aug 5th 2009, 1:00 am
well I think we should wait for the official word to come out !! geocities is not a small time thing , closing it might not be that easy.
5867dude
Aug 5th 2009, 2:22 am
well I think we should wait for the official word to come out !! geocities is not a small time thing , closing it might not be that easy.
http://geocities.yahoo.com/
GEOCITIES IS CLOSING ON OCTOBER 26, 2009.
New GeoCities accounts are no longer available.