It was about a year ago that Yahoo!-hosted Geocities sites started going offline. For the majority of Internet users, this event was met with little fanfare; Geocities had long gone out of fashion as ...

For a brief time in the early '90s Geocities was the web. And, for all its shortcomings, Geocities did nevertheless usher in much of what makes the web great -- that anyone can create nearly anything.

Looking at broken Geocities pages is deeply frustrating. They’re often either almost entirely indecipherable (i.e. a page full of broken images) or missing some crucial element, like an elaborate ...

The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities ...

“[W]ebsites and hosting services should not be ‘fads’ any more than forests and cities should be fads – they represent countless hours of writing, of editing, of thinking, of creating. They represent ...

Remember GeoCities? Did you even notice it got shut down about a year ago? Yahoo bought GeoCities and took all the sites offline on October 27, 2009. For the uninformed, GeoCities was THE premiere ...

In April of 2009, Yahoo! Geocities stopped offering free web-hosting services in the United States, rendering its at least 38 million personal, custom-designed pages frozen in time, accessible albeit ...

Before iPods and Y2K, GeoCities was a quantum leap: The average person could create a web site for free, no questions asked. People took the opportunity and ran with it, building millions of pages –- ...

GeoCities, one of the most popular free web-hosting portals since the concept was created, was shut down over a year ago by Yahoo to save costs. Now it has been exhumed from its shallow grave, and is ...

Oh my god. This is perfect. Because things on the Internet never really die and because old terrible things on the Internet eventually become wonderful and especially because Geocities was so ...

The closure of GeoCities marks the end of an era, as the Internet community says goodbye to the pioneering Web site creation and hosting service portal. Yahoo shut down the site Monday, 10 years after ...