GeoCities time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today

**Andrew** · 10-26-2009 01:48 PM

Time is up for Yahoo Inc.'s scheduled closing of perhaps the most significant virtual museum in recent history. Years ago a central meeting place for a massive chunk of American Web surfers, GeoCities will lock its doors and take millions of pages offline.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...s-closing.html

Yahoo likely to kill GeoCities today, removing millions of sites from the dawn of the user-driven web.

Did you have any sites on Geocities? What do you think should Yahoo go ahead taking down Geocities?

**~kev~** · 10-26-2009 02:09 PM

This is a sad day for the internet. When I was in college, one of my classes was a web development class. Our final exam - which was really a project - we had to build a website for a local small business. The class was divided into teams of 4 or 5 people. Each team had to go to local businesses and offer to build them a site for free.

The site we built was for a "Not for profit organization" who supposed eye glasses to the needy.

The site was hosted at GeoCities - that way the business did not have to worry about hosting fees.

Its sad to see sites that help Not for Profit organizations taken down.

Back in the 1990s, I remember seeing all kinds of fan sites of games on GeoCities.

**jerson** · 11-10-2009 09:14 AM

yeah this is sad, yahoo geocities is a free web hosting right. I think they will update this one... Its a big help in our business.

**links200000** · 08-25-2011 11:38 PM

When i go to yahoo to check how many pages has been indexed,i just see 3 pages,i created this site two years ago, and i can find 1400 indexed pages on google,i do not know why,anyone can tell me?