Blog Predecessor GeoCities Closes Down

Baack · Oct 27, 2009

Before Blogger and WordPress made online publishing easy for the masses, a service called GeoCities helped newbies create their own homepages.

Now, 14 years after it was founded and 10 years after a purchase by Yahoo, the service has been shut down.

The former Web site for GeoCities advertises Yahoo's other Web-hosting services, a decade after it was bought for more than $3.5 billion in stock, according to the Wikipedia entry on the service.

Many analysis pieces credit GeoCities with being the first mainstream way for people to create an online presence for free. On GeoCities, users known as homesteaders could create personal Web pages that were located in imaginary geographic areas such as Hollywood and Silicon Valley, based on their topics.

The Wikipedia entry says that in 1997, Geocities was the fifth most popular site on the Internet.

Yahoo announced in April that it was no longer taking registrations for the service and that Oct. 26 would be the closing date
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kajidono · Oct 27, 2009

And nothing of value was lost.

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