Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities

Mike writes "It's official: Yahoo is pulling the plug, and GeoCities is dead. GeoCities had suffered a long and drawn-out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has yet to be determined. Awful, eye-punishing graphics, lack of relevancy, and 'lowest-common-denominator design' are believed to have contributed to its demise. GeoCities was 15 years old." There is doubtless a lot of funny and informative stuff on there that's worth saving (not just Jesux, which pudge has now migrated). If some of it belongs to you, perhaps you should move it sometime in the next few months. Update: 04/24 18:10 GMT by T : And if you know some GeoCities page owners who aren't especially computer savvy, you could point out to them how easy it is to slurp down their pages for re-hosting elsewhere.

RIP

[daveime]

RIP Geocities, the Friendster of the 90's generation.

An old saying...

[Overzeetop]

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Prodigy tried the flashy nasty ad thing before AOL and was pulverized for it. AOL made a whole business plan around it.

hmm. familiar

[Anonymous Coward]

"Awful, eye-punishing graphics, lack of relevancy, and 'lowest-common-denominator design' are believed to have contributed to it's demise."

Sounds like myspace

Progress?

[clinko]

GeoCities:
Learn HTML, post Animated Gifs, Blare Midis

MySpace:
post Animated Gifs, Blare Mp3s

YouTube:
Blare "Animated" Videos with Sound

Twitter:
Blare

First members.aol.com and now this

[JewGold]

Where will we go for our fix of lousy, horribly formatted websites from 1997?

I feel bad for this sucker [peopleconnectionblog.com]:

WHAT A SHAMBLES & A POOR SHOW. NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW EITHER. FORTUNATELY I SAVED MY WEBPAGE & TRANSFERRED IT TO GEOCITIES.

Link Here: http ://geocities.yahoo.com/v/gcp_choose/

Real easy to do a simple webpage. With more time I think this could be better than aol.

Re:It hurts me inside

[daranz]

It'll probably be more like Google, Google and Google 10 years from now.

Re:Value

[Anonymous Coward]

Now they live on on google cache. It never forgets and never forgives.

I was there when GeoCities was acquired

[rizzo5]

I was working at yahoo in the early days and I got the job of working to integrate the stuff geocities was doing with some of our stuff. The moment I met them I was convinced these were the wrong sort of people to be working for yahoo. They developed on Windows by Crom! When anyone asks when yahoo started going downhill I point to the GeoCities acquisition.

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[meehawl]

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(yes, even after 15 years)

And this is a spinning GIF logo. Your browser is just too tasteful to display it.

Re:good riddance to bad rubbish

[Anonymous Coward]

especially some of the pictures of fallen soldiers I had up, didn't sit well with me...perhaps i'm just too good at holding a grudge, but i'm glad they're dead.

The beauty of context.

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[account_deleted]

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Re:Yahoo business acumen?

[fm6]

You slashdotted Geocities! Most impressive!

I felt a great disturbance in the force

[mysidia]

As if millions of internet web pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened....

Re:RIP

[ausekilis]

Gems like this?
VF Designer [geocities.com]
Unfortunately the pain isn't limited to geocities... more pain here [dokimos.org].

Re:RIP

[Kugrian]

I used to have a friend who'd clean up after royal events and sift through vomit and random foodstuff and find diamond rings and £10 notes.

I, personally, used to rummage around a funfair ball-pit and find mobile phones, money, jewelery and other fun tidbits.

Re:good memories

[Kinky Bass Junk]

Hope tripod.com will live for longer. I am actually using it still for something.

Propping up a camera?

Re:good memories

[Tenareth]

I think you need to work on your technique of first impressions... :)

Re:RIP

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

I had like 14 seizures from that second link, bro.

Gotta throw a warning up next time.

Re:RIP

[interkin3tic]

folks with high speed Internet connections that fill our tubes with spam because the moron will click on ANYTHING that has the words "tits" or "lesbos" in it,it truly is a different world now.

Your tits and lesbos link seems to be broken. You owe me a new mouse.

Re:Progress?

[Bieeanda]

Yes, we're finally getting that annoying 'signal' out of our noise.

Re:good memories

[f1vlad]

Yes, yes and yes. And no, I am not gonna ban you, biggie, don't even ask.

Re:It hurts me inside

[BJ_Covert_Action]

I don't think there will be a 'Google' in ten years, I am more thinking there will be a 'Google-Starbucks-Boeing-WalMart-America-China' super entity that reigns over the known universe and controls everything via an AI named 'GORT-Hal-Skynet.'

Luckily for us, I think we will still have the real Arnold Schwarzenegger for defense, and if not, we will always have digitized CGI models of him to wage binary wars on the new GooMartBucksWangCletusPlane superstructure....

I need more time!

[canonymous]

They can't shut it down, my site is still under construction!

Re:RIP

[Starayo]

I was already an atheist, but if I wasn't I would strongly suspect that page was made by Satan - check out the browser recommendation.

Re:RIP

[slash.duncan]

What, this link: http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/ [dokimos.org] ?

That's not too bad, really. A bit overboard on the accept Jesus graphic, but white text quoting a couple Bible verses, on a black background, with a door and a cat doing a single animation sequence, that's not so bad.

Oh, you mean what it must look like UNFILTERED! [Bypass privoxy with my light text on dark background enforcement filter that kills background images, turn on scripting, toggle animation from once to enabled, refresh.]

OK, NOW I see what you mean!

Re:RIP

[Estanislao Martínez]

Those of you who don't read Portuguese might be missing on the irony of the first site [geocities.com] (WARNING: epileptastic!). It's advertising a web site design and creation service. You know, you pay the guy, and he makes you a website like that...