I feel a disturbance in the Force. As if millions of crappy websites cried out all at once, and fell silent.

Good riddance.

I remember when I signed up for my first GeoCities account way back in 96 or 97 I believe. It was mostly used as a quick and easy way to post files for sharing. Create a tiny webpage and use the rest of the space to host files.

And thank your God that Y! has taken action.

The volume of spam that used geocities URLs in the body text during the past month was amazing.

It's noticeable how much the volume has dropped during the past week. Clearly Y! has finally sat up and taken notice.

Exactly! :D

I really must look up my old GeoCities page... Sniff sniff, [wipes tear away]

I built my first website on geocities and used infoseek to make sure I was the top ranking on multiple search terms.

Ahhhh the good ole days.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970417042104/www9.geocities.com/homestead/homedir.html

Check out the information superhighway dude!

Why Paris, Well I doubt she would have a mention on GC.

"Geoshitties" is the terms often used, I think.

I guess Geocities is a bit like Bob Dylan. People are surprised that either of them are still around.

How long till the death of Facebook, Myspace and Twitter?. Anything longer than 5 seconds is too long.

Should be made mandatory that all social networking gets the Geocities shut-down. Far too many people having a arty - farty love in on Web2.0 manufactured by ex Marketing hippies. Perhaps all those who *need* a virtual presence could be loaded into the darkened room of geocities and 'deleted'. Would make the world a more pleasant place for all those barefoot hippies.

The owners may have made a load of cash - but not from me.

Ah, the good old days before bloggers were bleating everywhere in CSS dotted lines... back when every Web page was about some professor's cat. I never used Geocities (I used TheGlobe.com, ha, who remembers that?) but I'll miss stumbling onto those cheerfully amateurish home pages when they're all torn down.

Sad really - no more websites with black backgrounds, pink text, animated gifs and annoying music that plays when you load them...

Oh wait... we have myspace for this now

But they Did not spare anyone ! Even the younglins Viagra / Cialis /<Insert Big $ Brand Name Here> Spamsites !

Really? REALLY?? See the spam filters here at work would tend to disagree with you on that. Actually the only time I hear of Geocities anymore is in the news like this.

Man this article reminds of the good ol' days I'm with you on this Steve, I thin for what they did BACK IN THE DAY (IE: before '98) it was a great concept for those who were just getting into the net and everything. Oh well.

/RIP for obvious reasons

Of adolescent days spent....errr....researching low res jpeg "stress relieve" material on dial-up speed.

I remember the days, being able to sign up and make your own site when having a Home Page rather than a Blog was the cool thing, and all the "neighborhoods" you could join although aside from general interests there wasn't much to distinguish them.

Geocities was before almost everything, and forget messaging, "applications," writing on people's walls or any of that. If you wanted to contact people or create content you had to do it the old fashioned way and work at it.

There was something appealing to the old web like this, simple information and just the important stuff. Today's Web 2.0 is rife with ads, security holes, and any idiot with an opinion clamoring for their 15 minutes of fame. Maybe I'm just getting old but I don't use Facebook for anything more than keeping in touch. The endless quizzes and chatter and virtual gifts are too much to keep up with. And don't get me started on Second Life.

On the other hand Geocities won't be missed, it's long since become like Usenet, where nothing happens and people are surprised it's still there.

Geoshitties was where I hosted my first site back around 98 or so (now long gone), I still have another site there that has gone untouched since about 2001 or so. Probably should save that for posterity's sake, despite all the coding and design I now know to be terrible even fron what I remember of it, but thought was a good idea at the time, it was a page from when I was first learning HTML. Seems like such a long time ago...

I agree with Haku about there being some useful geoshitties sites, but mostly crap.

Ah well, I guess that is why we have archive.org so at least the good ones won't be lost, while nobody cares about the crappy ones.

Geotitties?

Crap! This ALWAYS happens to me. Just found a note to myself to try out Geo-cities. Now they are (almost) gone? AAMOF, here's another one: try out Vista...OMG! Where's my mind gone? Crap! I seem...to re...mem...ber...something about...If you tried out Windows...then you...weren't...really...there............ Is that possible?

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At least they are giving fair warning and a way of getting your stuff off their servers. That's more than we got with Smartgroups when Wanadooo shut that down (for much the same reason, I recall).