Geocities to close

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Or as we lovingly called it, Geoshitties:

404 Error: Yahoo To Close GeoCities

Yahoo is shuttering the free hosting service that, at one time, seemed to be ubiquitous on the Web.

GeoCities, the service that Yahoo purchased 10 years ago, was a free service that hosted personal Web sites. For some, GeoCities was the first Web hosting service that allowed individuals to post content to a personal Web page.

Yahoo acquired GeoCities in a stock deal for $4.6 billion in 1999, the height of the dot-com boom, Reuters reported.

But Thursday, the eulogy was short and to the point, posted on the GeoCities homepage.

"Sorry, new GeoCities accounts are no longer available. After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We'll share more details this summer."

link: http://www.crn.com/software/217100169;jsessionid=5BZPZFWURNOAUQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN

Sad in a personal historical way. I remember well the days of SoHo HTML chat, crappy Geocities practices and awful home pages.